EA sets ambitious 100 million player goal for Battlefield 6 as development costs reach $400 million

[hahahanoobs]

-Against undeserved confidence, yes.

If a man is training hard to fight a tiger with his bare hands, talking smack, you wouldn't be "against confidence" for telling him his *** is going to get eaten alive.

EA wants to say "This is going to be the best and most successful battlefield yet!" Ok.

EA says "We're going to hit 100 million players!" No, you're not going to do that with the Battlefield franchise, don't kill DICE because of your ridiculous expectations.

The Dice I knew died long ago, but I still have hope. I lose nothing doing so. My expectations are reasonable.

Regardless, I'm not joining in on these rabid groups that never seem to go away. If bad predictions had consequences, the gaming community would be a much better place.

 

[Eldrach]

I think the success of games with fewer devs but high qulity (like expedition 33) stems from having a team that all know which direction and scale they want for the game. These massive projects with multiple studios are almost impossible to run with efficiency - not to mention with cohesion as studio culture will shape their snippet of the game development

 

[alexnode]

Swan song....

 

[lonetac]

Sigh...another game dependent on online gameplay... suckers will be paying full price, and once the player counts dwindle, and the impending server closure following that, and there's nothing left. At least, single player games, you can play it at another date when you feel like going back to it. Even if paying after a sale, when the server goes off, so does the game. The price we pay for taking away IPX network gaming and moving to online-only deveoper's server based gaming.

Reiterating the case of Diablo 2 original version, you don't need to depend on Battle.net server. You can host your own TCP/IP game or even local IPX LAN game. Gone are the days.

bf is an online shooter... comparing it to single player games and diablo 2 is silly.

And we all know BF 6 will be AAAA. LOL.

BF2 was prime for me.

 

[BobHome]

Boy, Humans sure love war. DMK! DMK! DMK!

 

[ComputerGuy55]

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BF2 was prime for me.

BF2 was prime for me as well.

I enjoyed a few of the games after (BF3+4), the Bad Company games were amazing, too; but BF2 is always where my thoughts go when I hear of a New BF Game coming out.

 

[tomidar]

100 million? Well, they have goals.
It was hard before, and it will get harder, as long more and more people start gaming on Linux, and they dont support Linux...

All I can do is wish them good luck.

BF 2 was maybe the best, but BF 3...?