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EA's Next Battlefield Game Will Also Have a Free-to-Play Battle Royale (insider-gaming.com)
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[–] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

In other news: Video Game publishers are grossly out of touch with what people actually enjoy about specific games.

Battlefield was consistently fun because it made you feel like a small part of a massive team in a large-scale conflict.

Battle Royale stands almost opposite to that principle since you’re fighting alone, or in a tiny group, against everyone else.

EA wants a F2P BR game, fine, but they already have one of the best in Apex Legends. The fact that they want to slap the name “Battlefield” on one shows that they have no idea what that name means to people.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Little late to the party there, no? When your FPS is years behind the Vampire: The Masquerade and Age of Empires franchises in having a BR mode (which added it in 2021 and 2020 respectively), despite BR being innately an FPS thing, you're probably too far behind the curve to get much out of it.

But who knows, maybe it'll be so good it'll become their new cash cow. 🤷‍♂️

[–] TheQuietCroc@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Battlefield already has the bones for a BR mode so they might as well. It's not really novel anymore, at this point it's just another feature like death matches.

[–] explodicle@local106.com 0 points 8 months ago

Back in my day it was called "Last Man Standing".

[–] Romkslrqusz@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Firestorm, Battlefield V’s Battle Royale, released in 2019. The news here is not that the feature will exist, it’s that it will be Free To Play.

Firestorm actually introduced the armor system that the much more successful COD Warzone went on to use.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 8 months ago

Oh neat, that’s an important detail I was missing. Thanks.

[–] Astronautical@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Didn't they try doing this like 5 years ago? Lol

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago

A little late to the party there.

They should just make Bad Company 3 and be done with it.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works -1 points 8 months ago

Ew gross