![]() ![]() In an interview with Polygon, EA’s chief studios officer Laura Miele talked about the company’s decision and revealed that especially hardships imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic were a deciding factor. ![]() The delay of the new addition to the NfS franchise depended on several factors. Photo credit: Electronic Arts “It’s hard to make games from home” The new NfS game would have added to the franchise in March 2022, roughly one and a half years after Hot Pursuit Remastered. Instead, developer Criterion will shift its work focus to support EA DICE with the ongoing work on the new Battlefield game. However, EA has now retracted the NfS title from the upcoming releases. Game publisher Electronic Arts had a lot on their plate for 2021: The announcement of a new Need for Speed as well as an addition to the shooter franchise Battlefield had fans of both genres excited for the coming year. No marketing to appease to and no focus testing.EA reassigns Criterion to work on Battlefield 6, pushing the new Need for Speed game back to 2022. Hard reboot from 3(ish), designed completely by someone who wants it to be a good game. You’ve made the game into a meme generator where streamers pretend to be Gods against people you could replace with rocks and the results wouldn’t change.īad company 3 made by someone who loves what the series used to do. Here comes the team of snipers doing nothing in the mountain meme. Lack of matchmaking in favor of server crap that’s nice for a few things but ultimately casualizes each and every game where people simply quit, rejoin, swap teams and never play seriously. Game modes have lost focus and your matches become something you play in, rather than a match to be won. Your map is so comically bad its just a lame scripted event off in the corner that nobody cares about.Īir dominance has been an issue for many titles and honestly needs to be redone from the ground up. Destruction needs to be player controlled at the miniature level, not giant levelution crap that crap that does one of the following things.ģ. The amount of weapons to pick from gets seemingly smaller every game (yes, they pad it with garbage, especially 1). Maps have gone down hill for a long time. The amount you have to get right in order to bring me back isn’t confidence inspiring. Destruction particularly.ģ, for lack of a better example, was your series peak for modern games and that came out ages ago. Pace and weight was completely off.Ĥ did a lot well, but ruined tons more. Thankfully, the wait won’t be long as EA has confirmed that we’ll be seeing the game’s reveal sometime in Spring 2021, and that it’ll feature “more players than ever before,” which leads into this whole “usher in a new generation” quote as well.ġ was a nice theme but butchered constantly with tons of revisionist history. If you’re a big of a Battlefield fan as I am, you’re no doubt itching to know more. But more on that to come in the month ahead and we’re excited to share more on that at the appropriate time. And you should imagine that we’re looking across all forms of the experience to ensure that this is exactly the game that Battlefield fans want to play and the game that we believe will drive growth in the Battlefield franchise. Michael Ng (Goldman Sachs): With first-person shooters using free-to-play game mode to expand the top funnel, could you talk a little bit about your ambition to do something like that with Battlefield? Is there anything you could share with us about the content road map?Īndrew Wilson (EA CEO): On Battlefield, we don’t have anything more to share with you at this point other than we believe that it’s going to usher in a new generation for Battlefield games and Battlefield fans and we’ll be taking - benefiting from the full power of next-gen platforms. While most Battlefield fans (including this guy) sees Battlefield 5 as a misstep for the franchise, EA seems confident that fans will love what they see from this year’s Battlefield game tentatively titled Battlefield 6.ĭuring EA’s quarterly earnings call, Andrew Wilson refrained from sharing any specific info regarding the upcoming shooter, though did state that this year’s Battlefield title will “usher in a new generation” for Battlefield games, and that this upcoming entry into the franchise will “exactly” be the game that Battlefield fans want.
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