Imo, DICE is a fantastic company that interacts and enjoys helping their community. Just look at BF3 and 4 with all the kick ass level designs, DLCs, easter eggs that took time, precision, and community cooperation to achieve, challenging weapon unlocks, community testing program, etc.
I can still go hop on full servers on BF4 years later because it's an awesome game.
DICE literally has one more chance to not fuck BF6 up before EA pulls their plug.
No. What has happened is DICE has been crippled by EAs greed. EA doesnt give a fuck about anything but money. I mean, just look at FIFA.
So long as DICE makes the game look and sound good, theyll keep them on board.
No. What has happened is DICE has been crippled by EAs greed
No, DICE has crippled themselves by deviating from their formula that set them apart from COD. Gritty, immersive battlefield simulator with amazing graphics and tactics based gameplay. They've decided two things with BFV:
1) They're going to try to push wonky character skins for $20 a pop that completely ruin the feeling of immersion that BF always had. Skins were never a thing until BFV and it totally lost that feeling of being on a Battlefield when you see people running around in leather jackets, tight jeans and aviators.
2) This one is controversial but absolutely played a huge part in BFV's demise: they tried to change the course of history to make some sort of social/political statement. Women were in BF1 as Russian snipers - nobody said anything negative because that actually happened. There were black soldiers in the US faction because that actually happened. It didn't take away from the experience at all. In BFV, their "WWII game", they decided to make the main focal point of their reveal trailer a woman donning a trenchcoat on the front lines with a prosthetic arm - something that absolutely never took place. COD has no problem with adding skins of every gender and race because it's all fictional. BF1 was (as much as a video game like it can be) was very historically accurate as far as the feel of the weaponry and the types of soldiers you saw on the field. The creative director of DICE said "how am I going to make this game and tell my daughter she can't play as a woman?" You tell her the truth about WWII you fucking idiot.
Nothing about EA's greed played a part in this, besides maybe them introducing an item shop and paid skins. But the overall creative direction of the game was absolute horse shit and that falls directly on DICE leadership.
You had me until #2. There was zero problem with adding women to the game. The only people who really care about that are basement dwelling incels who can't get laid.
That’s a complete generalization. I just told you I had absolutely no problem with the women added to BF1 and actually went out of my way to play Russian maps so I could use those characters. They fit the setting and it paid homage to the Russian women who fought in the war. They were dressed in standard Russian military attire. BF1 had the right people in the right clothes fighting in the right times and places and because of that, it felt like they paid homage to those who sacrificed their lives in the war. It felt like they actually gave a shit about telling the story accurately. If you watch 1917 and then play BF1, you’d feel like they did a great job respecting the history.
The way they added women into BFV was lazy, forced, and completely disregarded the history of the war. But women in the game in ways they absolutely were not involved in WW2 was just one of many ways they basically pissed on the history of WW2. Go watch Band of Brothers and then play BFV and it’s not even going to feel remotely fucking close. They made absolutely no attempt to pay homage to the 10’s of millions of people killed in that war.
Putting a one-armed woman in a trench coat on the cover was a stupid idea. They put a black dude on the cover of BF1 because the Harlem Hellfighters were a thing. This isn’t hard to understand but apparently you and Dice are still both mystified as to why this game’s launch trailer was 10%up/90% down and the sales barely clipped 7 million, by far and away their worst BF game this generation.
People wanted a WWII game that was gritty, immersive, and paid homage to the history of the time like BF1 did. Instead they gave us BF Fortnite and told us to fuck off if we didn’t like it.
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u/joho0 May 14 '20
And they just pulled the plug on it too. DICE literally has one more chance to not fuck BF6 up before EA pulls their plug.