That's not what likely happened. Back in June, Soderlund had attacked the majority of fans of the Battlefield V franchise. Back then, the sales figures hadn't started coming in. As a backlash to those comments, a heck of a lot of fans boycotted the game. Now the preorders sales are incredibly low so he had to go.
He messed up. He told people not to buy the game and so they didn't.
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