EA discusses why Battlefield is not annualized

I'm glad its two years in between releases.

the game is hardly functional as it is. Their honestly should be more time between releases

maybe they should take longer and make a game that don't crash

" Asked by an analyst during the UBS Global Technology Conference this week if Battlefield could be an annualized franchise..." Please someone find this person and throw an egg at them.

I really wish DICE could ditch EA, and self publish.

Apologists, apologists everywhere.

"Leave DICE alone! It's hard! Leave em alone!"

Battlefield 4 is Battlefield 3 with different maps, different guns, more destruction, and prettier graphics. So no, there's absolutely no excuse for the bugs. Especially considering that, if you have seen the early alpha and beta footage, the game literally was just Battlefield 3 on different maps.

The frostbite "3" engine isn't that changed from Frostbite 2 to make it remotely acceptable for any of the GAMEPLAY bugs to be present because the gameplay is EXACTLY the same as Battlefield 3.

In fact it's even more dumbed down if you look at how easy it is to hit people now - they dumbed the ballistics down hardcore. I've hit people across Hainan from the hotel roof, that I couldn't even see, with RFB iron sights on single shot. Or accidentally headshot people from far away without aiming at the head, on single.

The server bugs are fine. No one is going around pissed off that the servers occasionally crash. It happens with all multiplayer games.

If BF was an annual release, it would basically turn into CoD and it wouldn't take long for everyone to get sick of it. However it wouldn't surprise me if EA decided to do this. One look at their sports division shows they're not above releasing the same game every year with only minor changes.

"So we decided biannually was better." Also, BF4 isn't much of an improvement over 3, so this guy can screw right off.

I think it is boring as hell without annual releases. God knows what it would be like if they did start annuals.

Because they see what's happening over at Activision with CoD. They don't want to milk the franchise to its demise.

Do you know what will destroy a franchise? A PS4 game that is not yet playable online. Way to go EA...

or because EA uses Medal of Honor to fill in the gap. I mean, come on~ EA trying to look like the good guy now? We all know that no one is as bad as EA when it comes to milking their IPs

None of the versions work correctly anyhow. With tons of server drops, disconnects, server issues... For God's sake, a service called Kali in 1992 had better results and here we are 21 years later and this is the best these hacks can come up with? We should all get refunds for a game that simply doesn't work in multiplayer... Annualized. They cannot even get the servers to work after 2-3 years apart per game... I cannot even imagine what would happen every year.

a battlefield game needs at least 3 years of development. is a big game and 2 years is clearly not enough since bf3 had a terrible launch and was never 100% fixed and bf4 is even worse. battlefield already changed the core gameplay for worse since bf3. i hate to see awesome games being ruined because devs think that the casual player is a kid, so they make their games easy to play. this mentality is what is ruining battlefield games. everything is lock on or easy to use. why aren´t jdams like bf1943 bombs? why isn´t sraw like the bc2 at4? why are laser guided missiles for scout helicopters lock on, why not bumbfire? why there isn´t two powerfull rockets for jets? why does active radar auto locks?...instead of skill based weapons, bf4 is full of boring lock on weapons.

It is not annualized yet it is still released as an unfinished and buggy piece of crap just like any annualized game would be.

Fix yo' fucking game EA!!

Wow EA is really throwing news that nobody can give a **** at us

As far as BF4 bugs: In DICE and EA's defense you guys have got to understand all the pressure that they're under. They have to release and manage the game on PC, Xbox 360, PS3, and as launch titles for the experimental Xbox ONE and PS4. That's alot for a team to work on and try to remove all bugs out in a fast time. If they would have dropped PS3 and 360 they would have a better support team, but they would look like douchebags and lose money from fans.

Literally the most blatantly obvious question ever. And for EA to answer it, of all companies.

EA : we are already milking other franchises but when time comes we wont despair BF in future too.

"You want to be really careful that you don't destroy the franchise" - CFO Blake Jorgensen.

Oh, like EA has done with so many other franchises?... go f*ck yourself Blake.

CoD has two developers.

EA would know a thing or two about destroying a franchise.

Command & Conquer, Medal of Honor and Dead Space. :'(

Comparing BF4 to BF3, I think we are soon gonna see it annualized.