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Missed opportunity
I almost laughed when I read about EA’s attempt to fiddle the numbers with Battlefield 2042 and pretend it’s been a huge success. I know there’s some mixed opinions on the game, and I can imagine it would be a lot better after some patches, but as far as I’m concerned the launch has been a near disaster and the game as it is at the moment is not good.
It’s not a Cyberpunk 2077 style disaster or anything like that – although I have heard some people make the comparison – but it was clearly just dumped out in whatever state it happened to be in to hit the release date, with the usual logic of ‘we’ll fix it later’.
They may well do but I think people nowadays have had enough of that attitude and are no longer willing to put up with it. I certainly wish I hadn’t bought it and I’m…