EA Responds to Report that Battlefield 2042 Development Is in 'Abandon Ship' Mode

Gaming "journalists" are so unreliable, it's not even funny any more.

@naruball You say that as though a major publisher has no incentive to lie if they are able. You think they'd openly admit this rumor is true, especially when discussing an underperforming title that needs every sale it can muster to make money? Last thing they need is potential customers hearing this and being dissuaded from buying in, or current players abandoning it (even faster) and not buying future DLC.

Why do you take corporate's word so quickly?

WOW something from Grubb turns out to be false? That's a first...
I wish all gaming sites would stop quoting this faker honestly, I just never see anything he says be true honestly!
To be fair, this one statement seems pretty legit cause BF2042 had a skeleton crew from the get go lol probably 10 or less devs, since the game is such a barebones/lazy/terrible cashgrab.

EA has zero problem lying, they do it every year with madden. They’re about making money and they’ll do whatever it takes to maximize profits. I have no reason to believe anything they put out in a press release.

Between Grubb and EA, I’m more likely to think EA is lying. Besides, BF2042 is an absolute raging dumpster fire no one should come within miles of and is easily one of the worst, most frustrating games I’ve ever played, with over 230 on my profile! F BF2042, and F EA!

I'm so curious why people take such stock in what Grubb says.
Would like to know the ratio of things he's actually got right compared things he hasn't (and sure has made an excuse every time as to why it didn't go as he said)

I did however see Battlefield 2042 going for £14.95 on Game Collection today, so makes me think it's gone into the bargain bin to be forgotten about.

Releases like these should genuinely be illegal. I’ve never seen such a misleading and unfinished releases since Cyberpunk 2077, but even they have the decency to fix the issues plaguing the original release. It’s wild how little regulation there is for these gigantic publishers.

Skelton crew is not an objective measure so neither has to be lying EA might think 3 people is a lot to work on a busted game.

Grubb got it wrong…noooo never.

Side note, we need Battlefront 3.

I hope it is on abandon ship status.

Drop that turd and forget it ever existed. Get a new crew on board and make a real actual battlefield game.

@Deoxyr1bose To be fair to CDPR they did want to stall it longer until people wanted to throw their toys out of the pram.
I genuinely think if they didn't get such bad press then they'd not have released it in that state.

Still makes me laugh that Andrew Wilson thinks he is worthy of still being in the position of CEO should the company be bought. The number of ***** up they have had over the years should be the first thing any financial advisor should be mentioning to potential buyers. It's consistent and they hide behind the profits that their sport game makes and everything is all "sunshine & lollipops". That NBA game that was outright cancelled by EA a week after release being one example of how badly managed they run things

Look, Grubb is a clown at the best of times, but are some of you people seriously taking EA's word for it? Go back and look at what they kept saying about Anthem at every turn and how that actually turned out.

You don't need some Twitter jackass telling you what's going to happen - it's obvious they're ditching Battlefield, just like they ditch any of their terrible underperforming products.

I can not say I trust Grubb but, EA release the same statement dealing with Anthem and look how that turned out.

@naruball ill take a journalist above any corporate liar any day.

It is abandon ship time cos no one can login to view and play season one. Seriously DICE remove the game from all stores and refund everyone. Stop saying we’re aware of the server issues and we’re on it, just humble yourselves and say yes we’ve failed the gaming community. 😡🤬😡🤬

Let’s be honest as well, EA need to take a long hard look at themselves regarding the annual bull crap of sport releases coming up, Madden 23, probably utter garbage, FIFA 23, probably utter garbage, time for new leadership and vision. Maybe this year, don’t release any games EA. Pls.

Look, as one of the few still playing BF, this new update turned out better than I expected, loving the new map as well although there are a few bugs like always :/

If they don't pump out more content updates and only release the season content than I'll believe that Grubb dude but for now, let me hope BF will go back to its glory days xd

I've been playing this since last night when the new update dropped and its a heck of a lot better..tighter controls..hit boxes are more accurate and the hdr actually works now too lol..if you dont like the game bully for you but i really like it and the new map is good..lets hope this game gets the tlc it deserves..

@naruball Have you played this game? in 8 months they made the game worse with several patches. just came out with new content today. and it seems ok but the servers are laggy as *****. and the content is pretty light with game pass full of weapon charms? player cards? who asks for that stuff?

@weeden_hash the servers are good..i've had next to zero laggy moments and i've been racking up more kills in each game..the games never been perfect but it certainly has never been as bad as its been made out to be..its a solid online shooter and i'm glad its getting better..

General Grievous: Hehe 'cough, cough'. Time to abandon ship.

If they'd just put the work into making the game good they'd be able to run it on a skeleton crew

Anyone that believes this response from EA is a clown tbh.
They have to make a statement like this, they're not going to admit it's a failure ever, or until they're on to the next game 5 years from now & it's a "success" so they're not even remotely dependant on any money from 2042.

This game is utter trash, it's a complete and utter failure & yet another example of "get woke go broke". Who would've thought putting more effort into a pandering character & her ***** pronouns, instead of actually putting effort into making a game that the fans wanted, who could've possibly imagined that would backfire.

All of the actual fans of the franchise basically ditched it after the BFV debacle, & now we're playing other games until they make a quality BF3/BF4 era level of game without the woke *****.