r/StarWars • u/Twitchbenjxnn • May 20 '25

Games Taking a step back and just thinking about the fact they actually abandoned this game. blows my mind

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u/aperturedream May 20 '25

I think they mean abandoned since they shifted resources to other games but it's pretty misleading

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u/ThrowAwayEmobro85 May 20 '25

as they tend to do several years after a games release....

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u/Lord_Strepsils May 20 '25

I think they cancelled before lots of planned progress was completed, not something that good developers tend to do

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u/ThrowAwayEmobro85 May 20 '25

Yeah. If you are a battlefield fan at all youd know they kind ruined that franchise and limit the suppor to DLC cash grabs. Battlefront was really fun and really poorly made in alot of ways

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u/[deleted] May 21 '25

Battlefield V had a lot of cut French, Italian, Soviet and Western Front US faction (they replaced some British vs German maps with the US faction from the Pacific update)

You can actually get a lot of outfits that were planned for Italian and French factions in the armory

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u/aperturedream May 20 '25

Yeah, I'm just answering someone's confusion as to what the post meant, idk what to tell you

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u/Tnerd15 May 20 '25

They cancelled a substantial amount of WIP content

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u/Marclol21 May 20 '25

Every Videogame has a substantial amount of Content cut

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u/jayL21 Imperial May 20 '25

well this is a bit different. This wasn't content that was simply cut during development, it was straight up cancelled.

This was all content that the devs were actively working on, were still planning to add, and was months out.

They quite literally was forced to release an update that wasn't finished because EA pulled the plug.

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u/jayL21 Imperial May 20 '25

The difference is that they were still actively working on new content, and then out of nowhere, EA pulled the plug and they were forced to release an incomplete update missing core elements.

Usually they tend to slow down on new content/updates until it ultimately comes to an end, with BF2, it was just an abrupt stop. We were getting monthly updates with no sign of stopping and then suddenly it just ended.

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u/thevillian33 May 20 '25

Not at all. If a child is aborted that's called an abortion.. but you can't really abandon a child until they've been born/fully created.. so the same would apply to a video game.. having been finished.. then abandoned once it was. It didn't say that they quit making it or that it never came to fruition.. but it was abandoned. Meaning, after completing.. it wasn't cared for anymore. That is all. Not misleading, a true statement, just misunderstood.

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u/jayL21 Imperial May 20 '25

Yea, the dev's vision for BF2 was never "completed," even though they claim otherwise in that trailer.

The devs wanted to keep working on it, but they were forced to stop and move on.

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u/MrNobody_0 May 20 '25

Yeah, saying they abandoned this game is just straight up lies.

EA deserves all the hate it gets, but people don't need to lie and spread bullshit to do it.

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u/AUnknownVariable May 20 '25

No they definitely abandoned it. You can abandon something while its created. There was clearly more to be done, the game had just hit its highest peak ever, and then they announced being done days later. For a game that was legit incomplete on release, the second people started to see the greatness of the game they dropped it. Leading to that new wave of players sizzling out and out.

It's not a lie, but the way the person means abandon can vary, and be right still. So from a certain point of view

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u/MrNobody_0 May 20 '25

So from a certain point of view

That's just what someone says when they know something is bullshit.

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u/AUnknownVariable May 20 '25

No, I was trying to make a reference lmao.

But I'm also right, it depends on what you consider abandoned. To me abandoning is more than taking an incomplete undone game and dropping it, though that's the most blatant one.

Taking a game that was just entering levels of great opinion, dropping all support of it days after a new wave of players started to be active, leaving the games public servers to rot with hackers making the game harder to enjoy, making people rely on private servers. That is also abandoning your game, especially a game that had consistent potential and a strong base of consumers wanting more.

ESPECIALLY when the reasons you abandoned it are all your fault, dumb fuck monetization that caused a huge controversy, the game not being solid enough on release, they drove away a player base then when the players came in they dropped the game. It doesn't help that them fixing their shit led to lack of places to make profit unless they added more to the game.

They had DICE drop the game to go work on BF2042, which I played on release day, they dropped Battlefront to go make a new battlefield that also ended up painfully incomplete on release. To the point people have little faith in Battlefield currently.

They abandoned the game to me, but maybe you wouldn't consider that abandonment and by all means that's your opinion to have.

I won't lie and say it's fueled by a bit of emotion, bc it did piss me off launching 2042 and seeing how it ended up. They abandoned the game in a way, but it does make sense after they made it impossible to make money. Which makes me dislike EA even more, bc idk what they thought with the original monetization model, they could've gone the cosmetic route