As if these problems were out of DICE's control, instead of the result of launching a product that was clearly nowhere near finished.
This wording makes it sound like squirrels have chewed through the power cables. "While millions of players are enjoying Battlefield 4, we are aware that some players are experiencing issues with the game." "We at DICE have a long tradition of supporting our games and our community well after the release of a title," the statement reads.
There is an issue tracker for the game to give players updates on what’s being fixed and when, but the language certainly doesn’t inspire much confidence. These lawsuits may address the complaints of investors, but they do nothing for the players who have actually spent $60 on a game that, in many cases, simply doesn’t work.īattlefield 4 remains happily on store shelves despite its many problems, and EA has since ceased production on expansions until the game is made stable. Law firm Holzer Holzer and Fistel, LLC is also investigating EA to determine if there’s merit for another lawsuit due to misleading statements about the game’s health and possible performance. There is a class-action lawsuit alleging that EA oversold the strength of Battlefield 4, allowing the company's stock to rise and "senior executives to sell their Electronic Arts stock at artificially inflated prices." The idea in the lawsuit being that EA couldn’t have been ignorant of the fact that Battlefield 4 was barely functional at launch, and statements claiming the game would do well amounted to a high-level " pump and dump" scheme. My Twitter feed is littered with reports of players being booted from online games or their progress in the single-player campaign being deleted. Certain issues on certain platforms have gotten better, but we're now a few days into 2014 and events are still being postponed. The game was released on October 29 in North America and it still doesn’t work. If nothing else, Battlefield 4 has wasted the time of many, many players. We can earn more money, we can buy more games, we can forget about the bad experiences playing certain titles, but time is irreplaceable. There is no sin greater in gaming than wasting the player’s time.
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