EA sinking lower?
Not only did EA botch Battlefront 2, but they are leaving it to rot. Typical
YAWN surprise surprise, EA made itself look worse than anyone could have done. Way to show the haters who's boss by ruining you imagine worse that they could. Imagine a dumpster fire, but that dumpster is full of sewage and on the back of a truck. That truck collides with a school bus. At that very moment, a train hops its tracks and slams into the bus, truck, and flaming sewage dumpster. Ok now take all of that and put it in slow motion. That is the best way to explain the PR disaster that has been this game. The worst part is, I almost considered buying it and it had the makings of a fantastic entry into the franchise. Recent updated from management and developers paint a dark future for the title though.
While they did announce that the next content patch would add in Geonosis, months behind the release of the newest Star Wars, the negative news overshadowed it massively.
Staff Reduction
The only studio developing for BF2 is Dice, and they have a much biggest cash cow so this has fallen to the wayside. According to a representative, the studio only has around a dozen people actively working on this game.
Bug Fixes
With the reduced staff, they have said that they will be only doing major bugfixes. Minor fixes are not on their radar whatsoever. Their willingness to make more premium content, but only fix their most egregious mistakes speaks volumes about where their priorities are.
No Plans?
As opposed to other online game dev teams like the R6 team, the DICE team has no development timeline or roadmap outside the next release. Basically, the though is that they will keep pushing low effort dlc at sloth speeds with no value.
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