EA reportedly expects Battlefield 6 to bring in 100 million players, a number that even DICE devs don't think is feasible
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A new report says Battlefield 6 development has been more expensive than planned, and the campaign is way behind schedule.

Battlefield is cooked this is guaranteed going to be the last we’ll see of the series.

The highest selling battlefield game was 15 million copies there’s no way they’ll reach 100 mill and promising a f2p battle royale like that trend died ages ago and we’ve already been and gone with extraction shitters.

After the shutdown of codemasters almost immediately after buying them and defacto killing

  • wrc
  • dirt
  • dirt rally
  • project cars
  • grid
  • need for speed

Dice is next on the chopping block and bioware will absolutely follow shortly after leaving only mainstream sports games left

  • LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    25·
    4 days ago

    EA absolutely doesn’t expect this to happen. They’re saying they expect it, so that when B6 fails to…checks notes…sell 3.5 times more than their highest selling iteration, they can shutter the studio and strip it for parts, adding some more short term profit and buying some dipshit CEO some more time.

  • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    23·
    4 days ago

    Me screaming “the tendency of the rate of profit to fall” at my computer monitor (I’ve never read Marx).

    Edit: I meant to post this in the general mega.

    spoiler

    I’ve long maintained that medieval men’s fashions are superior to modern ones. Specifically having a belt around your natural waist so it can’t fall down without it having to be cinched overly tight and then hanging all your shit off that belt is something that has always seemed wondrous to me.

    But I was thinking about it, just sitting around fantasizing about wearing a tunic and a belt with an axe stuck through it supporting a drawstring purse full of coins, and then I realized that’s basically just a fanny pack. Fanny packs are the modern heir to the practical garb of that most industrious race, the medieval peasantry.

    Completely ruined it for me.

  • bam13302@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    20·
    4 days ago

    Considering (according to Wikipedia at least), the entire franchise has only sold 88 million copies, even if this was worded to be for the franchise to reach 100m would be a stretch.

    100m copies sold for a single title would make it 3rd best selling game of all time loosing only to Minecraft and GTA V.

  • daniyeg [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    17·
    4 days ago

    Even at the peak of the series’ powers with Battlefield 1, as the employee notes, it achieved “maybe 30 million plus.”

    yeah imma go ahead and say this thing won’t be three times more popular as battlefield 1. and with the price of games now breaking the 80 dollar barrier (and the almost certain 100~200 GB hard drive size + 60 GB day one patch if it’s not just online download only) you’re almost guaranteed to lose most sales outside north america, europe and japan. even if you went f2p im sure the majority of the audience for an FPS like this is already taken by CoD. this is just a tactic by EA suits to cut off dice.