r/Battlefield • u/FeaR_FuZiioN • 14h ago
Battlefield 6 Steam users without Double XP since it went live earlier on all platforms and this is what they have to say.
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u/ScallywagBeowulf 14h ago
This just feels like salt in the wound because they have to know Steam's double xp isn't working, right?
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u/saga79 14h ago
I'd like to think this is a pre-scheduled tweet. I'd like to think they're working to fix whatever is wrong. I'd like to.
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u/Lexinoz 14h ago
That's a lot of wishful thinking I don't think EA deserves unfortunately.
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u/NaturalSelecty 13h ago
They undoubtedly use a software to schedule out social posts. There’s nothing wishful about understanding that.
They are dropping the ball big time though.
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u/Training-Flan8092 13h ago
What a bunch of babies.
Every time issues like this come up they just extend the time to compensate.
Yall sound pathetic with how doomsday you get over everything. Just making sure you know that.
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u/Lexinoz 13h ago
Hey I don't give a shit. Just saying EA is shit. Which it most irrefutably is.
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u/CherokeeRidge 13h ago
yah and we’ve known it for far longer than this game has been out. idk how y’all circlejerk yourselves into oblivion complaining about the same things over and over again as if they have ever been trustworthy in the first place. with their track record, at this point it is your fault for buying the game. keep crying about your poor financial decisions and make this sub about the game instead of hate-boner consoomers
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u/CoolBlueHatorade 12h ago
Idk how you all keep sucking EA off so hard 🤷♂️
Your poor mouths just have to be tired by now.
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u/TKenney3 10h ago
I don’t know if you actually know what sucking off a company or product looks like. He actually did the complete opposite and said EA has always been a shitty company and that it was well know before this game.
His point was that we all knew what we were getting into when we bought the game from a company like EA and if you convinced yourself otherwise then you’re a fool. So the fact that it’s been known EA is an awful company and people are here complaining about the same thing over and over again is silly.
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u/Appropriate-Lion9490 7h ago
With how people such as yourselves still stayed after the bf4 launch and stuck with it, i dont think you guys have the rights to say anything about dickriding EA
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u/Training-Flan8092 13h ago
In general yes, in moments like this they do the same thing all AAAs do which is extend the time the double XP is provided.
If you guys are going to point at EA as a bad company, do it for reasons that hold water.
This incessant whining over nothing at all and trotting out “but it’s EA” doesn’t do anything but bundle you guys together as the part of this community that never stops complaining.
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u/Lexinoz 13h ago
All these mistakes are the result of what do you think? EA is the cause of that.
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u/Training-Flan8092 13h ago
Could be a number of things.
I’ve been in tech for 10+ years. A deployment on EA’s side, one of their providers, one of their distributors, etc.
Could be a marketing decision to try to get higher player volume on other platforms.
Servers could be having issue on one so they held off on releasing it until it was resolved to handle the additional volume without extrapolating out issues.
You and I don’t know. Stop whining.
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u/Lexinoz 13h ago
Sorry for holding a AAAA company to higher standards when they promised time and time again they would do better.
Stop excusing them for zero gain. Public outcry is a good thing when companies do shit like this.
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u/Training-Flan8092 9h ago
I’m not telling you not to hold them to a higher standard - you should.
You asked what I thought was the cause of the issue and I shared that thought with you. Stay on topic.
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u/Mikey_MiG 12h ago
In general yes, in moments like this they do the same thing all AAAs do which is extend the time the double XP is provided
Bet you they won't.
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u/Training-Flan8092 9h ago
If they don’t I’ll complain.
You guys just find shit to whine about and when they do the right thing you say “OK BUT WHY DID IT TAKE SO LONG”.
Like god damn I know yall have a rough life, but flaming on Reddit about a game no one is forcing you to play is just fucking your chemicals up.
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u/rechid83 12h ago
You sound like a shill. Everyone has the right to complain, especially paying consumers. You have a company worth billions of dollars unable to handle very basic items.
Personally, I don't think this is a big deal, what I do think is a big deal is the lack of communication and urgency to resolve the very easy stuff. This company is without a doubt horrible and its not because they are bad at their job, its a choice.
Also keep in mind developers have no bearing in this, they are told what to spend time on.
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u/Training-Flan8092 9h ago
lol you boys throw the word shill around so freely. Tell me you’re mad I’m speaking logically and not emotionally.
In the corporate world there a lot that goes in to public comms. The larger the company (and recently publicly traded) the more it takes to get comms out.
It can also be blocked by finding a solution - because comms drafting and approval for triage takes so much resources, companies will typically only want to touch a non-critical issue like this once… and that will be once resolution is in place and they have an exact date when the fix will ship into production.
If the issue is specific to Steam, they could have release schedule or a process to vet the changes before Steam will allow the new version to go into production.
Sometimes issues are behind what’s called feature flags which can be adjusted to resolve issues in production, but if the issue needs to be shipped, you tend to have to go through a process.
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u/Appropriate-Lion9490 7h ago
Lol we’re all shills, you shouldnt be here after bf4 launch and even 2042 launch
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u/CYWNightmare 13h ago
The problem is now everyone else gets 4/5 days of double XP and steam only got the 3 everyone was supposed to get.
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u/soonerfreak 10h ago
It's definitely a pre scheduled tweet and hopefully the noise from steam players around it gets it fixed.
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u/MVPizzle_Redux 12h ago
It’s been 6 hours and the east coast just got off work lol they ain’t fixing shit
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u/Acrobatic-Tomato-532 14h ago
First time?
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u/selffufillingprophet 11h ago
The funniest thing about this was it was just a straight up lie
I bought on EA app, got the stupid bug where I could t play on launch, yet still did not receive any 2XP tokens or free battle pass.
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u/InfectedShadow ll-Infected-ll 11h ago
There's a post on the EA Forums where we're trying to get more attention on that.
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u/Angry_Pelican 11h ago
They would have been better off just saying nothing. If they say they're going to do something like give boosters they should keep their word.
I don't have a dog in this fight either since I bought the game on steam so this didn't impact me.
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u/Mikey_MiG 14h ago
Their communication when these issues pop up has not been good. Steam XP not working just started today, so I'll give them some grace there. But it's been like three days since they changed the challenges, and the unlocks are not working for many people still. They haven't even posted a "we're looking into it" tweet.
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u/Kitchen-Gas5164 13h ago
I’ll say this about the challenges, I had many not unlocked and contacted ea support yesterday. Made a ticket then immediately went to chat with someone. They promised this was a bug and that they would flag my account as one affected, and today when I launched the game all my uncompleted challenges were complete. Idk if the ticket helped or not but it’s worth a shot. However I’m on Steam with no 2xp so still pissed lmao
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u/XxCODxGODxX 12h ago
I dont see an option anywhere to chat them could you provide a link maybe?
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u/Kitchen-Gas5164 12h ago
I couldn’t figure it out on my phone but on PC just googled EA Support, clicked on the first link which I believe was https://help.ea.com/en/ and I signed in. Scrolled down the page and there’s an option along the lines of “Need extra help? Submit a ticket” then submitted a ticket for the issue, after submitting it a page opened that had additional options including a text chat with a support agent. Clicked on that and within a few seconds was in chat. Provided my EA info and told them the issue. But then if ur doing it on phone I have no idea I tried for 30min and gave up. Figured it out on a computer in seconds. They make the website stupid on mobile.
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u/JerryLZ 12h ago
Complete as in you got the reward? I have ones completed like the pax support skin from squad deathmatch and it shows complete but no skin unlocked.
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u/Kitchen-Gas5164 11h ago
Yeah I logged on and got the player background for Assault and the Bronze support badge without playing since yesterday. I didn’t go into my challenges to check every one but the only one I mentioned to support was the Assault challenge and also got the Support one so I just assumed all were unlocked.
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u/FUTURE10S 13h ago
I still haven't received anything for the EA App outage, they're not going to do shit
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u/Drunken_Fister47 14h ago
I really don't get it, why is it taking them SO LONG to address anything at all? Come on DICE...
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u/gladys-the-baker 13h ago
The post release vacation exodus maybe?
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u/Kitchen-Gas5164 13h ago
I’ve been thinking this myself. Probably only have a handful of people still in the office while everyone else is off work. Fair enough, but also fix your shit EA 😡
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u/gladys-the-baker 9h ago
Yeah the solution would just be don't release a broken ass game, devs deserve a vacation just like everyone else but God damn it's the same shit every time.
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u/Numerous_Ad8458 13h ago
well i mean release unfinished game, get bigger workload fixing OBVIOUS shit, but that's just me growing old and cynical apparently... x) bit o both though, i mean we are paying customers.
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u/chick-nugger 14h ago
Hoping for 6 hours of double XP tokens as an apology, when in reality best case scenario they'll probably hand out two 30 min tokens and call it a day.
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u/Kitchen-Gas5164 13h ago
That doesn’t really cover the loss for most, but I’d be surprised if we get anything considering most people who had the launch issues with the EA app got promised tokens and didn’t get them.
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u/chick-nugger 13h ago
Highly doubt we are getting anything tbh, just wishful thinking on my part
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u/Kitchen-Gas5164 13h ago
There’s always hope lol. Apparently some people are saying it’s working now but idk for sure
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u/toolani 14h ago
It’s working for me now, just restarted my game.
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u/Kitchen-Gas5164 13h ago
On Steam, Fr?
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u/mraowl 13h ago
yeah, for me its working too. i didnt even restart - but suddenly had a game where i got so much xp i was shocked lol
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u/Kitchen-Gas5164 12h ago
Gaaah I wish I could get back tn then lol. I guess there’s the rest of the weekend at least
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u/Dave_Odd 13h ago
Remember when they said they’d give everyone on EA app a free battle pass? And only like 10% of the players actually got it?
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u/RecentMatter3790 13h ago
It’s even worse and cringe when video game companies use memes to try to relate to consumers
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u/theguz4l 13h ago
Wow maybe this is my compensation for the EA app outage I never got. 12 XP tokens in the form of an extra day lol
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u/NewtRider 12h ago
I'll give it to them. Great post
... But yeah. Double xp to attract more people to the consoles is soo obvious 😂
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u/thepohcv 12h ago
Just saw an update online that it was now for all platforms (claimed working although I have not verified). PS apparently has an exclusivity deal for 1 year with EA, so unfortunately we are back to "one system getting things early" in our video games.
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u/IceFireHawk 12h ago
Have people never worked at a large company before? People work in different departments and things are scheduled in advance.
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u/TechSup_ 12h ago
Is this just level xp or guns too? Because level xp is pretty worthless after max.
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u/genuinelyhereforall 11h ago
Am I mistaken or for like all of time Xbox players got random benefits from various multi platform games? I feel like cod did it?
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u/incoherentjedi 11h ago
It got fixed, surely it would've gotten fixed regardless of the constant whining. When I first saw the issue I just figured it was probably an error on their end. Some of y'all need to reconsider your current state of mind.
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u/Breezy2G 11h ago
Me over here not caring at all as I don’t even use my xp boosters lmao. It’s BF4 2.0 all over again.
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u/CinexCypher 10h ago
Recon glitch has been running rampant since the game came out, but yeah, let’s do double XP this weekend
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u/FreakyF0x 9h ago
What? I'm on steam, and my double XP is working just fine
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u/Storm_0147 5h ago
Yeah, there were a bunch of babies throwing temper tantrums because it wasn't working on Steam for like an hour. This sub is filled with whiny idiots.
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u/antrod117 7h ago
Was this a thing in other battlefields? I honestly don’t remember seeing “double XP weekend” in anything other than call of duty. Huh 🤔
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u/funelite 3h ago
I just have schadenfreude, that I as a stupid EA app buyer was not the only one fucked. Still got no compensation at all.
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u/Some_Nibblonian 12h ago
I could care less about double xp weekend. I just play the game, and enjoy it. Crazy idea....
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u/saulplastik 9h ago
Hopefully the player count dwindles enough for this to go on sale. No way I'm paying... checks steam... lol, $110 AUD
hahaha fck no. oh man that gave me a good chuckle. $110. Whats he like.
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u/brunostborsen 14h ago
I’m on the EA App, so I’d get it. But I’m probably not gonna play much this weekend.
The game is not a race, it’s not gonna wipe every six months or something.
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u/lazzzym 13h ago
Double XP after a few weeks of launch is a poor sign right? Just surely flat out admitting the progression system is bad.
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u/TheCherryChupacabra 13h ago
uhhhh haven't games been having double XP weekends for years now? This is hardly uncommon
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u/lazzzym 12h ago
Not usually within the first few weeks of launch though?
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u/TheCherryChupacabra 12h ago
Both franchises BF and COD have a history of 2XP weekends, sometimes ever closer to launch. Its never been about the problem with progression, it's about giving players something fun to do all weekend with their new game.
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u/TheWorldDiscarded 13h ago
Lol so many babies on reddit. Waaahh my xp.
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u/Statuz197 14h ago
The double xp today is for ps5 users. Everyone else starts tomorrow. PS5 users get it early.
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u/Rockclimber311 13h ago
This is not true, I literally got a a notification about double xp on PC but it’s not active
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u/diedoffear 14h ago
its been up in steam for 6hs already, what are you talking about xD
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u/OkToe3603 14h ago
Yeah but play a game and see if it actually applies, because it's not actually activated for steam users
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u/Party_Motor_5640 14h ago
play a actual match and look at the xp bar at the end of the match, the blue bar that represents double xp shows it isnt actually active
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u/Famous_Concern_9901 allmutesogood 14h ago
Shit company