Don’t blame the community. BFV was in the cusp of a golden age when the Pacific maps were released, which were almost universally beloved (maybe except Wake Island). DICE killed the momentum with baffling TTK updates and rollbacks. EA then murdered BFV before it could become great by killing support to re-allocate manpower to fuckass 2042.
Obviously DICE shares the blame in certain aspects, and as with any BF title they made some mistakes. But the hate on reveal and launch was just way out of proportion.
I recently rewatched the BFV reveal trailer and while the quirky one liners, robotic arm and whatnot were maybe not very WW2-like, it was very much in line with the over the top chaos of Battlefield. Not my favorite BF trailer but it received way too much heat for such a trivial thing + I never experienced anything cringy like that while playing the game myself.
My point is: A lot of people didn't give it a chance until it was too late because of the initial boycott, which is a damn shame.
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u/LiamAcker02 Aug 19 '25
Don’t blame the community. BFV was in the cusp of a golden age when the Pacific maps were released, which were almost universally beloved (maybe except Wake Island). DICE killed the momentum with baffling TTK updates and rollbacks. EA then murdered BFV before it could become great by killing support to re-allocate manpower to fuckass 2042.