And yet, people bought it. I may sound like an old fart, but Battlefield hadnt been good since BF2/20142. BF3 was a bait and switch where they said it was a return to PC focused gaming and not just a console port (was a console port), and they’ve been doing it ever since.
Even if you disagree with me and enjoyed the midlife BF, you have to admit the last few have been dumpsters. EA is a dumpster company, we all know this. Why ever give them the benifit of the doubt?
The reason is people are stupid (on average) and the concept of an informed consumer base (or electorate) is a fallacy. For every 1 person who says fuck EA there are 3 people that don’t care and 6 that aren’t paying enough attention for an opinion on the subject to even cross their mind. Advertising is the only thing that matters in this reality and they know it.
I disagree, I loved BF3, and BF4 (not at the cluster fuck broken launch, but 12 months after release), but that doesn’t really matter.
I didn’t buy any after that because yeah I agree they were garbage, but I bought 6 because after putting in tonnes of hours in the beta and being massively impressed at how it appeared to be a return to 3’s style like they specifically said, I didn’t think it would all be a lie and that the full release was basically just the crappy games again but with new problems.
On EA as company, I don’t really care either way. If they release a game I want to play I’ll buy it. I won’t really care if the company are “evil” or anything.
And yet, people bought it. I may sound like an old fart, but Battlefield hadnt been good since BF2/20142. BF3 was a bait and switch where they said it was a return to PC focused gaming and not just a console port (was a console port), and they’ve been doing it ever since.
Even if you disagree with me and enjoyed the midlife BF, you have to admit the last few have been dumpsters. EA is a dumpster company, we all know this. Why ever give them the benifit of the doubt?
The reason is people are stupid (on average) and the concept of an informed consumer base (or electorate) is a fallacy. For every 1 person who says fuck EA there are 3 people that don’t care and 6 that aren’t paying enough attention for an opinion on the subject to even cross their mind. Advertising is the only thing that matters in this reality and they know it.
I disagree, I loved BF3, and BF4 (not at the cluster fuck broken launch, but 12 months after release), but that doesn’t really matter.
I didn’t buy any after that because yeah I agree they were garbage, but I bought 6 because after putting in tonnes of hours in the beta and being massively impressed at how it appeared to be a return to 3’s style like they specifically said, I didn’t think it would all be a lie and that the full release was basically just the crappy games again but with new problems.
On EA as company, I don’t really care either way. If they release a game I want to play I’ll buy it. I won’t really care if the company are “evil” or anything.