EA Wants It To Be The Next CoD, And The Single Player Campaign Is Having Existential Issues
The executives at EA are doing their best to ensure that loyal fans of the series are disappointed once again. Their goal is to hit “100 million players over a set period of time that included post-launch“, somewhere between 3-5 times as many players as any previous Battlefield game has attracted. Instead of designing a Battlefield game that will blow away the high expectations of the current fan base, or at least what remains of it, they are aiming to replace Fortnite or CoD as the game of choice for people everywhere. One suspects that there is not a huge overlap between those that enjoyed the classic Battlefield experience and dedicated Fortnite fans. That is not stopping EA from designing Battlefield 6 to be focused on the wildly unpopular Battle Royale mode in Battlefield V.
The price tag is every bit as ridiculous as the goals, at over $400 million Battlefield 6’s budget is wildly more expensive than any previous Battlefield game. That budget doesn’t seem to be helping the single player campaign, as development of that part of the game running “massively late”. The teams working on the game are reputedly experiencing extreme stress and burnout, no surprise given the unrealistic expectations EA has for the game.
We can hope that things get better for those developing Battlefield 6 and that they somehow manage to produce a game worth playing, but at the moment it looks like it will be yet another disappointment.