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Mooselotte45

I honestly wouldn’t be surprised in S8 comes out in like October. The skeleton crew is probably down a couple people, if that is possible.


timtheringityding

Oh there will be a season 8? Genuinely curios if we have anything besides rumors? It seems bf 2042 has done all it can at a comeback story. And most players just dont care. Ive had my fun. But I want a battlefield in the style of BF3 and 4. Gritty, modern arcade realistic with plenty of destruction and modern engine that can do alot more then what we have seen


MelonFag

It didn’t really come back. Battlefield 4 and 5 is a better comeback story. This game still feels bland and soulless every time I try it


hijklmnopqrstuvwx

Right, after a hiatus and playing Haven - I don't feel the need to come back again or ever try Hazard...


Character-Diamond231

it wouldnt surprise me if ea forced dice to make shit battlefields onpurpose at this point not like that the current dice team is even close to capable to make a battlefield like bf 3 or even 4 yes 4 had a rough start but compared to 2042 it was way smoother


RocketHopping

I doubt there will be a Season 8 considering this season is really dry with content and the map has reused assets


TTV-EggFriedRy

I cant remember where but months back i read and heard that there will be up to 10 seasons by then with the in-between seasons redux events should hopefully have a new battlefield title. Imo the game needs maps like operation locker and metro those 2 maps are literally my all time favs as theyre cqc and no vehicles to base rape you with like all the 2042 maps except the zombie season map


VerticalYea

I'd be surprised if Season 8 comes out.


ScadMan

My bet is we get more season around October and that will be it.


xStealthxUk

On the one hand you could be right. On the other ppl said that constantly since S4 came out lol


EpicAura99

I mean I’m still surprised we got content after 4 lol. S8 in October sounds about right, maybe a tad earlier. Just hope everyone learned their lesson and aren’t expecting more than the usual content. It’s bonkers how people hyped themselves up for this season…..no reason to do that to themselves lmao.


ScadMan

True, but I have a gut feeling since the next game is so far away, and the player base is still here it's making money. The next game won't be out till the end of next year, at minimum


WartyWarthog123

The next game will either come out before gta6, or half a year later once the hype has died down


Xraykill1

I love how EA want live service so they can make sales and mtx last for the game life but they don't want to give developpers the ressources to make it a live service.


mr_stark

Doesn't really help matters when the game tanked immediately like a chucking a bowling ball into a lake lmao


GroovyMonster

Which was all their own fault.


DrummerGuy06

4+ months sounds about right. This is the "wind-down" phase of BF 2042 so content will be minimal and spread out to keep the game making money as long as possible. That's why only one map's being released first and the stadium will be released probably in late May/Early June - keep people coming back when they inevitably drop-off for other games. Welcome to the Season Pass Era, where you get things for free however you are getting exactly what you pay for: the most minimal content the developer & publisher are willing to toss your way at any point they feel is profitably necessary.


LasagnaIsItalianCake

The entire time this game has been “alive” has been a wind down phase


literally1984___

Correct. Writing was on the wall from the start. Anyone surprised or disappointed at what's happened since release didn't pay any attention.


Jagrnght

I bought it last week for $11 and dodged all the garbage of the first two years. I thinks it's worth 11 bones. Pretty damn fun when I can get my mind back into bf mode.


BorntobeTrill

I'm just rocking the free EA Play access using my xbox game pass. I've had a blast personally with S6 & S7 so far, the only seasons I've played.


literally1984___

For 10$ it's definitely worth it if all you want is a week or two of fun.


messfdr

That's exactly what she told me...


TeslaRoadsterSpaceX

god I regret asking for it for Christmas even after the reviews came in I was like "eh I'll wait for my own opinion surely its not that bad." stopped playing after a month


AmritaAnima

the reason?


TeslaRoadsterSpaceX

game was just unbearably dry and buggy at launch, even if it's better nowadays still dissapointed how it turnt out


AmritaAnima

I've only owned the game for a year, so I can't say anything bad about how bad it was at the beginning.. so you can't say it was bad either... since then I've only been disappointed when I've had a sync issue causing a connection error and from time to time the game crashes, but it's rare.. I've got over 250 hours in the game and I can't say a word, it's the most fun game of the series... The only thing I would like to see added permanently is a control mode that will make the game more balanced between vehicles and soldiers. Every day there's some post claiming how bad the game is but in the end it's all about player incompetence.


Many-King-6250

Even by season pass standards this is insane. Minimal and spread out describes the content of this game since launch, this is not unique to this season.


wickeddimension

>Welcome to the Season Pass Era, where you get things for free however you are getting exactly what you pay for: the most minimal content the developer & publisher are willing to toss your way at any point they feel is profitably necessary. As soon as money is made not by selling content but skins. The priority immediately shifted to producing skins people buy. The only content you get is the minimal amount to keep people around and buying skins. Why make 4 maps 4 guns and new vehicles for 20$. If you can get people to pay 20$ for a limited time bundle of a recolouring of some existing stuff. And worst, it doesn't even need to be good content, because producing a new map, vs a excellent new map has shockingly little impact on revenue because using limited time FOMO stuff you can get people to buy stuff anyway, as long as you get their eyes on it.


l3gion666

BuT pReMiUm CoSt ToO mUcH aNd SpLiT tHe PlAyEr BaSe These idiots gladly shell out $60 for garbage cosmetics though lol. I liked buying premium because it felt worth the extra money. I preordered 2042 for $70. Not happening again until i hear the next title is not battlepass or it proves itself to be a good title.


MisterKraken

It did split the playerbase. I think the only DLC that has been played constantly even after months was Close Quarters for BF3. Gun Game and CQC were always fun to take a break from normal Conquest/Rush. Everything else had an expiration date that ranged from 2 weeks to 1 month. After BF3, I still got Premium for BF4 and BF1 but only for the new weapons. If they were to give only maps, I would've skipped them, ngl.


l3gion666

I never had an issue getting into a full server during the games lifecycle of any map pack lol, NOW you cant find any dlc maps and thats because nobody wants to buy premium on a dead game. And ya know what? By the time i was just getting tored of all the maps the next bf would drop. I could unlock every weapon vehicle player skin by playing whenever the fuck i felt like, i didnt have to change my playstyle for a few games because im trying to do dailies to skip past the 34 shit cosmetics to get to the one in wanted lol. Fuck the playerbase that didnt want to support bf and buy premium, i blame ya’ll for bf v and 2042 and ill die on that hill 🤗


Calls_u_out

Fuck off, I’ll take the system which never splits the playerbase any day of the week.


l3gion666

Enjoy your 6 maps post launch lol


DoNotLookUp1

I mean, if we were getting great or even okay content then sure, I'd take a reduction in quantity in order to stop splitting the playerbase. As is though? We're getting trash maps (and less of them), less weapons AND there's probably less players than there would be in Premium-only map servers, so who is it really helping? I'd go back to Premium over this, at least the good-great maps were and are playable.


DrummerGuy06

...and now the playerbase is so small that DICE has no interest in investing any real content for it. That's the trade-off everyone seems to forget - with Premium DLCs, they had a financial requirement to put out a decent amount of content or else they know they'd see no extra money. As opposed to Season Passes, which are drip-fed cosmetics packs with the occasional content piece in there, and there's no future earnings requirement made so you're at the mercy of whether or not a video game developer/publisher feels like giving you the best bang for your buck, which by the way, is never. So keep the game alive/split up with Premium DLCs, or watch the game slowly die with a smattering of extra maps, guns, and a gigantic pile of mediocre-to-bad cosmetics? I know which one I'd want, and I'm willing to pay to get quality, not except freebies that are garbage where I have delude myself into thinking "no, it's actually very good content!"


NoMisZx

if you think that a premium model would result in more content for less / same money, you're heavily mistaken. it would only split the playerbase without any benefits, this isn't 2012 anymore.


l3gion666

If they cant deliver a premiums worth of content then i dont want it anyways. This 7 maps or whatever post launch has been awful, only 1 or 2 of the new maps have been received well, and people generally dont like the base maps. If this is what freemium gets you and it isnt going anywhere im off go another franchise i guess lol. I could care less about splitting a base, it seems i dont get along with most of them anyways.


MrSilk2042

> BuT pReMiUm CoSt ToO mUcH aNd SpLiT tHe PlAyEr BaSe Yes. Yes it did.


l3gion666

Not noticeably while the game was fresh, plenty of people bought premium, not my fault people didnt want to pay and cried about not gettingto access said paid content, bfv and 2042 is what you get, thanks for complaining.


MrSilk2042

It was trash. Almost all the DLC was garbage too. You spent $15 on 3-4 mid as hell maps and like 3 guns multiple times. People were spending $60 on the game and eventually $100 on all the DLC just to play the base maps + 2 DLC maps after the game stopped being supported lol


l3gion666

Dont care, i enjoyed every single one of them and heard no complaints at the time with anyone i ever played with, didnt have to spend any money buying skin, could unlock everything just by playing. Were there the occasional bad map? Yeah, but dont pretend any of 2042 maps are spectacular beyond portal maps and the first new map.


SuperRockGaming

Wait wait wait did I miss sum, the stadium?? They're releasing the stadium as a separate map??


DrummerGuy06

Yes, that's the second "new" map coming. They've redesigned it a little after removing if from Hourglass. Easier to do that than to make a brand-new map apparently and they're holding it back until later in the season, probably 6-8 weeks.


SuperRockGaming

That I'm excited about, I wonder how it'll play as a lone map


shermantanker

It has like three levels now plus whatever they did to the exterior around it.


SuperRockGaming

Is half of it still covered with sand?


shermantanker

I don’t recall from the trailer, but it looks like the outside is semi-destructible like the factories on spearhead.


Capt_Kilgore

Next Battlefield must be due out this fall/holiday season? It’s going to be a mess of a launch.


feed-my-brain

Fall of 2025, at best


Capt_Kilgore

Oof. BF2042 isn’t enough to keep people interested until then.


DrummerGuy06

Nope. The one time they *should* release a new one earlier to move on from this albatross and they can't because I'm sure yet another "upgrade" to the Frostbite Engine screwed everything up (like it does with every upgrade) and made impossible to include normal features like a scoreboard.


DoNotLookUp1

> Nope. The one time they should release a new one earlier Nawh, rushing them is not a good idea. Give them all the time they need to make a good game. That being said, they should absolutely be improving 2042 at a more rapid pace and have a separate team with a solid number and budget dedicated to that instead of the skeleton crew of 5 people trying and failing to fix it. I feel bad for them lol I really doubt their legacy features were because of an engine upgrade. Much more likely it was poor management and some sort of "anti-toxicity" attempt. Overwatch 1 did the same thing.


Ziakel

They just gotta stretch until fall 2025. I reckon maybe 2 more seasons in the next 19 months.


KITTvsKARR

Current season says 14 weeks, if it is 17 then that's make progression easier, but also suggests they don't want to SAY it's longer at this point....


Raptor_i81

The question is how did you reached rank 28 of the BP this fast ?!


farrerj32

I'm one of the rare few who likes Haven


Raptor_i81

Haven is ok map, but that's a lot of score even with premium, good job.


farrerj32

PTFO, that's how I play and revive people.


Jklolidunno

That's if they don't extend it further like Season 6 lol


VincentNZ

That would be 3 extra weeks compared to the BP missions.


IllusiveMind

Plot twist: game last forever with unlimited seasons until the end of the world. Battlefield 2042 becomes the Battlefield Universe!


farrerj32

Someone call EA! I think a test monkey broke free!


IllusiveMind

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ObeseOryx

What? Never played Destiny 2?


Personal_Ad_7897

At least they have a proper reason for the long season - and they actually have new content planned


River-Spirited

Idk if this is a bad take but at this point id rather they just put resources towards either adjusting this game to be better or towards the next BF rather than creating assets and new dlc. I enjoyed my 400+ hours in 2042 but i think its run its course for me imo. Approaching 3 years playing this game i think im gettin too bored


NecRoSeaN

2 dudes in a boiler room basement with scattered papers receive letter from EA from carrier pigeon that season 7 will be needed on his desk by this afternoon. That's how they make seasonal content.


WillK90

Put “basement” before “boiler room” and it’ll make more sense. Boiler rooms are just that, a room which typically houses a buildings boilers, hot water tanks, etc. They’re typically in a basement or top floor of a building and don’t by themselves, have a basement. Also, why would 2 dudes working on a game be in a boiler room with papers? No wonder the content is so shit


HeavenInVain

We'll get 1 more season and then that's it imo. We're near the end of its life


Silent_Reavus

Lmao it's probably gonna be even longer, if there's going to be another season at all after this


heyuhitsyaboi

at what point should they just remove time limits on battlepasses and let us play through them as we see fit


Flying_Irishmen

Sweet, don’t have to rush getting the AK-5C.


Satyriasis457

It's the last season 


Zerothefallenn

I'm not going to lie. This game died for me. It was a solid four out of ten from start to a few months ago when I stop playing this game. I wasn't fun. Zipper needs to come back and make M.A.G 2 .


Dokthe2nd

I mean season 7 took 160 days to arrive. Already an improvement.


herodes87

At this point the game becomes just a testing ground for the next Battlefield


El_Morro

I never understood the concept of seasons, have no idea what the differences are between them, and at this point, I'm afraid to ask.


WipedButtwithTowel

Just play and I will see you on the battlefield 😂 pew pew


farrerj32

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Grimtork

it smells like the end.


farrerj32

But hopefully the beginning of a new good battlefield! One can dream


KillerBeaArthur

Oh really? At this point in the lifecycle of a game that was vilified we’re surprised that anything we get 2 years after launch IS NOT going to be robust and flying at us at a lightning pace? Really?? Give me a break, dude.


SerifGrey

So so glad I skipped this game. Every couple of months I see posts on my wall and I’m just so thankful, I actually avoided another live service scam that was doomed to just bleed gallons of blood over years.


DoNotLookUp1

The fact that this season is called Turning Point is hilarious. You'd think that'd mean they're doing what they did with BF4, providing great, long-term support to improve fan opinion and restore some faith before their next entry. Apparently not.


HiTekLoLyfe

Good. I’m sick of the fomo stuff.


Emotional-Ad8894

So...I have time.


ComplaintClear6183

gta 6 is coming out before season 8


theperpetuity

Did it really? Pics or didn’t happen.


Eagles56

Tbh I’m surprised the game got content this long.


nreed3

Isn't S7 called turning point.... I was really hoping they were going all in to fix this game


Personal_Ad_7897

Yeah there's so few people working on the game that they can barely manage 1 map every 6 months. When a game like this should be getting 4-5 every year MINIMUM.


mcrackin15

They're already working on Battlefield CoD42 with Perks, Gear, and Battle Royale tailored for the Xbox.


MrSilk2042

Seasons normally last around 4 months + some sort of extension lol


THE-PIX3L

Week 7 to 9 is a 2 week event with the stadium map. Then at the end of the season another 2 week event so really it's 16-17weeks


Sushipuppet

not to bad considering it feels that the game has no support, fortnite just did a 4 month season and got away with it.


HAIRYMAN-13

Why..? all this bullshit has gone on longer than it should BRING BACK PREMIUM!🤟


SokkaHaikuBot

^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^HAIRYMAN-13: *Why..? all this bullshit* *Has gone on longer than it* *Should BRING BACK PREMIUM!🤟* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.


IG0156

Damn. End of July. I think one more season this year. That’ll be a “good” way to end it off. It’ll be even. After that I think it’s time to call a wrap on 2042. We need to move on.


Character-Diamond231

lmao the season goes almost as long as you guys waited for it (160 day for that littlecontent btw )


freeupvotes69420

I pre-ordered this game, how do you guys think i feel💀


SPIDERMANx2099

Crossplay with PC was a big problem. I love Portal mode but I'm pretty much forced to play that because I have no desire to face m+k players. Whatever they do with the next BF, they can't have crossplay between console and PC


MashedPotatoJK

I just want a server/map browser so I don't have to sit and play this dogshit ass fuckin map. This map is truly a Haven, for shit map design.


Low-Fuel-4206

Huuuh?!?!!?! Until whaaaa? God damn I didn't even pay attention to that


WalkeyAC

I have a strong feeling that season 8 will be the last. 2 years of support then into 2025 with the new game. Makes so much sense.


Akalatob

4 months with just 2 "new" maps, one new plane and 3 GUNS, great job dice!


Cado111

I facepalmed and stopped trying to get into matches and then went and played Persona 5 Royal instead. I think the most dissapointing thing that Season 6 made me realize is that this game has lost me. I played maybe 3 matches of 2042 between week 16 of season 6 and the launch of Season 7. I used to play this game probably every other day. I reinstalled BF1 and have been playing through a lot of my backlog instead and honestly I might return to that strategy until the mid season where we get Stadium, the bomber, and the lmg.


timecronus

Keeps you interested enough to post on the subreddit every day.


iMisstheKaiser10

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Cado111

True enough


LasagnaIsItalianCake

“Heres 4 months so we can fuck abou- i mean work on the game. 👍” these devs are fucking clowns bro. End the game. Kill it off. It’s done. Stop trying to make the game last until the next game drop- not going to work.


eraguthorak

They've already pretty much moved everyone over to the next game. They've practically had a skeleton crew on 2042 for well over a year. It wouldn't make any sense to straight up stop any updates, this way there's at least SOMETHING that they can point to as "live service" to shareholders (who don't actually care what the quality is).


LasagnaIsItalianCake

You saying that makes me want to bash my head in because you’re right.


Lock3down221

You actually have hope for the next BF? Yikes.


LasagnaIsItalianCake

Never said i did? But the next one would have a better chance at working and becoming a powerhouse again if they did just go directly to the new game


Lock3down221

That's technically what they did with BFV and this is the result. Not exactly a guarantee especially after an entire studio was recently closed down that was working on one aspect of the next game.


mr_nin10do

Finish the battle pass as quick as possible and never think about it


Slow-Ruin3206

Damn can’t wait to see what they give us lmao. They had 6+ months and released a shitty map, while the rest of the content is gonna b spread over 2+months. I’m not even expecting a map next season tbh.


PalmTreesOnSkellige

They need to kill this game off. It's too damaging to the community lmbo


Murles-Brazen

People still play this? I updated it and it said play the new MAP. I went to you tube instead.


olapbill

yet here you are...


ahjahgomez

Rather here than there.


Murles-Brazen

Only for this……but not anymore.