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Battlefield 6 is Undergoing Franchise's Biggest Playtests Ever to Prevent Another Disastrous Launch

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EXCLUSIVE: Battlefield 6 is Undergoing Franchise's Biggest Playtests Ever to Prevent Another Disastrous Launch

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That's cute, but if you don't do shit with the feedback, then it doesn't really matter how big the playtest is, eh?
Sources say that playtests with external players are happening much more frequently than in past installments, and the amount of data and feedback collected is the most the franchise has seen in its history. From small feedback sessions to large-scale player tests, Battlefield is now taking the much-needed “player first” approach.
Alright, let's wait for more info other than "sources say", then.
- This is games journalism, so expect the "sources" to be EA press releases and a conference call with Marketing.
  
  As an ex-journo, ouch.
  But yeah, investigative journalism is dead. A press release is a valid source but it is the journalists duty to sift through the BS and corpospeak and convey what it actually means.
  There's too many sites that just paste a press release on a blog page and call it an article, but let me stop there before I digress even more!
I like new Battlefield launches because 2 weeks later people get bored and boot up Battlebit instead.
- That looks pretty fun. Any word on Linux support for it?
  
  it plays really well with proton, i have 168 hours all on linux. it’s THE GAME that fully convinced me visuals don’t matter at all if the gameplay is tight.
  
  Good question, it looks like they are working on a sequel/remaster that is Steamdeck compatible.
- Thanks! I've been looking for something like this
- I feel like there's research paper potential here...
  "gauging Battlefield's launch success from observing Battlebit popularity - CluckN et al"
I would be very interested in a BF3 remaster (and the earlier games too) but anything else is justs no thanks I'm good.
- I loved Battlefield 2142. Walkers as well as tanks and a floating battleship to assault was a lot of fun. The launch pods were great too.
$10 says launch is still a shit show you can’t play test for hundreds of thousands of players without hundreds of thousands of players
I have no doubt this game will flop. It will be on the sales bin for like 5 bucks in 90 days.
Was there ever a point in history where a Battlefield game didn't have a poor launch? I still remember 1942 the day of launch, tanks were flying everywhere. The CGW headline for their review of the game being "Mein gott! Die British haben un panzerflagen!"
- BFV was ok. A little starved for content but it wasn't a bad launch imo. It could have become amazing if they actually released that eastern front update they teased for ages
God. I member BF4s PC launch. I bought a pc and it was my first game I was hyped for. I truly thought console was just better for a bit cause of how fucking bad that game was at launch lmao
Obviously they will stick with things that make money making it a call of duty look-alike, the same way they have done with 2042.
I've played 2042 just because Ps Plus gave it for free and I used mostly portals.
BfV was good with updates, but because of EA they never finished the game and we never saw Russia in a WWII game.
On launch 2042 was complete crap but I had some fun with it two years ago. I particularly liked being able to swap out my weapon attachments on the fly.
- That was the one thing they didn't fuck up. Ironically I remember them breaking that system a bit with a recent update (maybe they fixed it since, I have not played it for a while now)

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