"To us, we need the time to be able to create the next game that consumers will hopefully like. The annual franchise is hereĭICE's Patrick Bach once talked about the reasons behind Battlefield's lack of an annual release, the strategy that Activision has used to great success in bringing a new Call of Duty game to market every 12 months. What replaced it is the knowledge that gamers can and will be asked to pay for as much as possible. Selling new content has become big business why play the game when you can just pay $15 to unlock all the weapons? Purchase all the shortcuts on PC for $40! Subscribe to the expansion packs before you even know what they'll include!įree DLC and content as a pillar of the game is gone. Today, all manner of DLC, including maps, is par for the course of the Battlefield franchise. There are 19 pieces of for-pay content for Battlefield 4 on the PlayStation Store.
Whatever part was "still very much DICE" and not EA is long gone. "We're owned by EA but we're still very much DICE."īattlefield 4 has five paid add-on map packs. "We don't ever want to charge for our maps and insisted to EA that this attitude was crucial when it came to keeping our community happy and playing together," DICE senior producer Patrick Bach told Xbox World 360 magazine, as reported by CVG back in 2010. The culture behind DICE and the Battlefield series has been eroding for some time. It's perfectly fine to still be a Battlefield fan, but buying Battlefield Hardline at launch is one of the worst bets you can make in gaming in 2014. Whatever culture kept the quality of games up and tried to preserve the value of the franchise is long dead, as evidenced by the current reality of the industry and past quotes from developer EA DICE itself. The problem with the franchise goes deeper than a long history of terrible launches, however. It was a pain to set up, but it was a great time.īattlefield games all but defined my group of friends as we grew up and played through every sequel, and one thing stayed constant throughout our youth: The games never worked well at launch.
I once ran a Battlefield 1942 league in college, complete with squads, scheduled practices, a ranking system and tiered communications.
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