Again, as a product as a whole, I am not that concerned about BF2042 since I trust DICE is capable of releasing a fun game. Heck, we haven’t even seen actual raw gameplay outside of leaks and videos from content creators.
Not only have we not heard anything official about the new mode Hazard Zone, we still don’t know all the Specialists coming at launch, the weapons that will be available, and more. But the fact that people have loads of questions left, and we’re just a month from release, isn’t it time to maybe, y’know, open the floodgates a bit more? It’s gotten so bad that we’re left to chew on datamined info to get any sort of semblance of news. Who is to blame here? DICE? EA? Marketing people? The fanbase? I won’t pretend to know the inner workings of EA’s marketing department, but surely, anything would have been better than going silent for weeks.
When you’re communicating about a multi-million product to a consumer base that have loads of choices and alternatives, the last thing you’d want is these people doubting your product and considering finding an alternative (in this case, it’s Call of Duty: Vanguard, and Halo Infinite), or even considering not finding an alternative shooter, and just choose from the multitude of free-to-play multiplayer games that are currently available. The most we got was a mention of how we’ll get updates on the beta “later this month,” which could mean this week or the last week of September. But as everyone knows, we didn’t get anything about that, either. Even with the delay announcement, they could have softended the blow with the announcement of the beta. While I don’t think DICE or the game is in trouble, EA does need to work on its marketing. That surely didn’t drive confidence in anyone’s eyes.
Imagine that: 13 full days went by before anything was announced or marketed for the game, and the latest news we get? It’s about the game being delayed. After that, it took us 13 days on September 16 until we got anything tangible, and it was about the delay. Williams’ death), the last time the account tweeted anything regarding Battlefield 2042 that focused on gameplay was September 3 (where we got to see Specialists and their abilities shown off). I mean, it didn’t feel like the game was set for release in a month’s time.Ĭhecking the official Battlefield Twitter account, outside of the delay announcement (and Michael K. Battlefield fans were left to find scraps of info since official channels (EA & DICE) hasn’t really talked about the game at all. That said, the main concern for me is the lack of communication. Sure, games development isn’t a smooth process, not by any means, and this global pandemic which is forcing people to work from home surely isn’t helping matters, either. Related Reading: Battlefield 2042 Dev: “Not a Project in Trouble,” Explains More About the Dev Process.While a full month’s delay isn’t that big in the grand scheme of things, since games usually get delayed months (or even years), it is still a cause for concern, though mainly for other things surrounding the delay. In case you haven’t heard the news, it was announced last week that Battlefield 2042 has officially been delayed to November 19 - almost a full month from its initial release date of October 22.