{"id":5143,"date":"2022-05-11T22:40:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T20:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/ea-ceo-says-the-company-is-rethinking-battlefield-from-the-ground-up\/"},"modified":"2022-05-11T22:40:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T20:40:27","slug":"ea-ceo-says-the-company-is-rethinking-battlefield-from-the-ground-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/ea-ceo-says-the-company-is-rethinking-battlefield-from-the-ground-up\/","title":{"rendered":"EA CEO says the company is rethinking Battlefield \u2018from the ground up\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
EA CEO says the company is rethinking Battlefield \u2018from the ground up\u2019<\/div>\n
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EA DICE, the maker of Battlefield 2042<\/em>, is \u201crethinking the development process from the ground up,\u201d according to Electronic Arts\u2019 chief executive. The company is reconsidering its flagship shooter franchise after a lackluster November launch, followed by a series of delays to live service content, some of which are still unresolved six months later.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re using the kind of Vince Zampella\/Respawn model of \u2018Get to the fun as quickly as possible,\u2019\u201d Wilson told investors during Tuesday afternoon\u2019s quarterly earnings call. Wilson was referencing the founder of Respawn Entertainment, maker of EA\u2019s wildly successful Apex Legends<\/em> <\/em>battle royale. <\/p>\n

In December, Electronic Arts assigned Zampella \u2014 who also founded Infinity Ward, the studio behind the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare sub-series for Activision \u2014 to oversee the Battlefield franchise. Battlefield 2042<\/em>, a multiplayer-only iteration of the shooter franchise that launched over the holidays on PlayStation, PC, and Xbox.<\/p>\n

Battlefield 2042<\/em>\u2019s launch was immediately followed by a damage-control memo from EA DICE, a launch-day title update to correct performance issues seen in the game\u2019s early access, and multiple patches immediately after release. Battlefield 2042<\/em>\u2019s Metacritic scores<\/a>, on console<\/a>, are the lowest in the series\u2019 history, and the PC version\u2019s score<\/a> is second-lowest, ahead of 2015\u2019s Battlefield Hardline<\/em>, made by Visceral Games.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve been doing thousands of updates for the community, working on quality of life, and really getting the core game right,\u201d Wilson said on Tuesday\u2019s call. \u201cI think there\u2019s still more work for us to do there. [\u2026] Once we get to a place where we feel like we\u2019re in the right place with the core experience, and with the core game, then you should expect us to invest and grow beyond where the game is at today.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first season of multiplayer progression and unlockable content is delayed to sometime this summer, EA DICE said back in February. Battlefield 2042 <\/em>launched in November with promises of four seasons and attendant battle passes offering tiered unlocks, such as four new playable characters and new maps. Battlefield 2042 <\/em>finally delivered in-game voice chat in mid-April, and a scoreboard in March.<\/p>\n

Investment analysts also questioned Wilson about Battlefield Mobile<\/em>, <\/em>the Android and iOS adaptation that EA announced on April 22. That is being developed by Industrial Toys, the mobile studio EA acquired in 2018.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now, I think we were looking at going into further testing at the end of May,\u201d Wilson told investors, \u201cand then, subject to the metrics and the data that we\u2019ve seen, we might look towards the end of this year, beginning of next year, for global launch. [\u2026] We want to give ourselves the opportunity to ensure that the game has all the soft launch and closed beta that it needs in order to ensure the balance.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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EA CEO says the company is rethinking Battlefield \u2018from the ground up\u2019 EA DICE, the maker of Battlefield 2042, is \u201crethinking the development process from the ground up,\u201d according to Electronic Arts\u2019 chief executive. The company is reconsidering its flagship shooter franchise after a lackluster November launch, followed by a series of delays to live […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}