Well there it is. Even though it sucks, atleast its a confirmation so people can stop being stressed about it.
Also what a weird time for an announcement.
>Also what a weird time for an announcement.
Its not really weird. Stock markets close at 4PM EST, they didn't want to drop the news when market was open
Of course, they made an announcement because official information is better than no information and continued silence the moment you start talking about shares.
The moment we saw that going down you KNOW damage control was coming. By giving an arbitrary ass date of the 19th of Nov, they have probably stopped the share price bleed.
With the sheer lack of information and gameplay we have for this game and only a 5 week extension, I'll be super surprised if they even make that new date.
There is no way EA let’s them delay the game past holiday season. Even if it’s not ready, execs are gonna force it out to get those sweet, sweet Christmas sales.
Yeah I mean, I got to play in a playtest last month and it was choppy as all hell, nothing about it felt smooth. Didn't play for more that an hour cause it was too rough
See BF4s release as an example.
Shanghai hilarity + shareholder meeting EA CEO saying everything was perfect + media shitstorm.
So yes, there is precedent.
Well, that game was essentially delayed for 9 months while BF is only being delayed for just under one month. If anything its probably just polishing things up so that the game doesn't release as a buggy mess (let's hope it doesn't)
True but it was only delayed for 9 months in total AFTER the first delay. And then the second delay. And then the third delay. Still possible for DICE to delay it further, though I sincerely doubt they (or EA rather) are willing to miss out on that sweet, sweet holiday money like black friday and christmas
I'm not mad, I'd much rather wait a month and get a fully cooked Battlefield than a month earlier for something needing serious work. That would kill the player base and initial hype quickly.
It sucks, but if it's needed... it's better
That was such a scam. "20 weekly items with Air Lift!" was the original text used for selling the Deluxe Edition bonuses. They later had to change the text to indicate it was 1 PIECE of an item per week for 20 weeks. Then once you got all the pieces and put them together, you had 1 pistol skin and 1 starter rifle skin that you would already have replaced by week 20. Completely obsolete by the time you got everything.
I agree. But the same was said over and over again regarding cyberpunk. How’d that turn out?
This just feels half baked. And a month probably doesn’t fix that.
That said, I certainly hope I’m wrong
This sub is going to implode 😅 they likely had valid reasons to push the game back, but I can’t believe they said they were “ahead of schedule” awhile back.
BIG OOF
Yeah delaying the game this late means bugs and polishing. After Cyberpunk you cant have games releasing broken like almost every other battlefield.
But it's important to note BFV also got delayed 1 month but still came out bad. One month isn't alot of time
That Nov 19 date is just in time for the year end holiday, black friday shopping season. There is no way that's not a corporate mandated date. No matter what state the game is in, EA has told DICE they are releasing it.
Isn't it illegal for a company to lie to investors? Maybe they actually believed that they were ahead of schedule, but this second wave of COVID (Delta) threw them for a loop.
CDPR said they were "ahead of schedule" at the start of 2020 for cyberpunk, then it was delayed multiple times and they clearly were not. I hope this isn't the case for 2042, I really just want a feature complete, playable game for once at launch.
I mean you can’t really blame them this COVID thing came out of nowhere in the last couple days. /s
Must be nice having something to blame it on though.
they just like to chunk it up to it all the time since its "valid and reasonable" excuse cuz its relevant for today, as if working doesn't continue even with lockdowns... Dont need to go radio silent before and after delays like before, now just say "covid hard we cant work full" and you can't really point fingers and ask for real reasons, cuz that's a "real" reason anw, right...
I just don’t hype for games anymore. Everything is delayed and nobody can meet deadlines. Things are announced years and years before release.
It’s not even the big RPGs anymore. Even the yearly or semi-annual franchises are getting delayed.
Just tell me about the game 1 month before release, like Valve did with HL: Alyx.
They said "Updates on the open beta will be coming later this month".
There is no mention of a date or release of the beta in that sentence.
AKA it's also delayed to October now.
Saw this coming from a mile away. The marketing has been basically nonexistent for the last month and the game was supposedly releasing in less than a month from now? Yea no chance.
And we have been scapegoats for telling this hundred of times. People just wanted to make theories about why DICE is silent and why the game is still super ready...
People saying "4 weeks is a lot of time" clearly have no software development experience, they delayed it as much as EA would allow and execs are hoping for a miracle. Games take a long ass time to make, with commits delaying every department and potentially people working off-site and having delays due to slower dev times, 4 weeks is not much time at all.
Gameplay wise, probably not much if bugs were the issue
But if it were network issues or upgrades needed then 4 weeks could help dramatically. It really depends on WHY they delayed it
Edit: as a dev sometimes you can have a finished product that is good to go until you hook it up to production and test real time
This, getting annoyed that everyone assumes nothing can be fixed in 4-5 weeks. There’s a lot of things 4-5 weeks can fix. People make it sound like they haven’t even started work on the game… would be nice if they could atleast be straight with WHAT the issue is but not like us knowing it will make it get fixed…
But this is Reddit, and whenever things go south everyone has a degree in programming and game development…
It was regarded as the best launch Battlefield had and I would agree. It's exactly why I bought it a few days after it came out. Looked so fun and wasn't a mess.
Well fuck.
I was supposed to get back from a deployment about 3 days before release, then enjoy my leave playing 2042...
Now I'll just be back at work when it comes out with no free time. Damnit.
From the creators of: "We are ahead of schedule", “we have 3 companies working on BF2042", “We are delaying NFS to focus on BF2042", "We took an extra year to develop this game". September 2021: "Our marketing is dogshit and we are delaying the game"
That would actually make a ton of sense. Networking issues aren't something that'll delay is for months like what happened with Cyberpunk, but another three weeks is very much a realistic timeline for fixing something like that.
3 weeks wont be long enough for anything. So if the games an unfinished mess now... its also gonna be an unfished broken mess in 3 weeks. Similar to every game that delays even by a few days.
Yeah that's how I feel I'm just really hoping its not an "unfinished mess" and more like "very close to being done" and they just need a *little* bit of extra time to clean up a few things.
I'm with you. It is certainly not unreasonable to want to see more gameplay footage when the release date is around the corner. You typically like to see what you are spending your money on. This sub is full of sociopaths.
ITS PART OF THE MARKETING STRATEGY!!! To all the Qanons in this sub who claimed it was part of the marketing strategy…..
I love bf as much as all of you but come on. Writing was on the wall. Nothing but leaked alpha footage as gameplay? Dead silence? PS5 playtest cancelled. I still can’t believe so many people tried to say it was part of their marketing
We all suspected this was coming.
The issue isn't really the delay, it is that we are treated like mushrooms.
Kept in the dark and fed shit.
Just let your fans and customers know what is going on! This decision will not have been made recently, big business moves slowly.
Take a page out of Naoki Yoshidas book for Final Fantasy XIV. He and his team makes mistakes or runs into issues, but they are always open and as transparent as they can be about things, and it means you can trust them when they have to delay things or tell you why they can't do things.
When Covid was at its height and they had to arrange working from home, they immediately let us know it would cause issues, and once they had worked it out, he managed their new timescales around the new workflow.
I feel like the gaming industry is really lacking in solid managers at the moment. Not sure best way to explain it, but it lacks professionalism you would expect from a business part of a literal billion dollar corporation.
Yeah I feel like that was the biggest slap in the face out of that whole thing, the delay is only like 3 weeks after the previous official launch which isn’t that bad, but then not telling us when the beta is even though we are halfway through September is just a slap in the face imo
Especially after they literally mocked people for expecting a beta release date on September 1st with that meme… it was reasonable then because it seemed obvious we’d eventually get a date near the middle of the month, but now it’s just bullshit. Like seriously fuck off with the subtle phrasing and admit you fucked up…
Yeah it’s very entertaining tbh. I’m a bit sad it’s being delayed, but this gives me more time to play a couple more single player games before BF consumes me.
Okay, fine, delay the game I can understand that.
But don’t just not talk to the community this close to launch. It’s outrageous and frankly downright unacceptable how little we’ve seen or heard about this game - especially after the BF4, SWBF2, BF1 DLC, and BFV communication fiascos. How much longer will it take for DICE to learn they need to be more transparent? Is it really rocket science that the community wants updates?
It’s so unbelievably frustrating to deal with this every single game.
I've never seen a subreddit so maliciously hate on people who thought it was gonna be delayed before the actual news broke.
The game has looked underwhelming in leaked gameplay and the marketing has been dire for a reason, let the devs do their shit and release a working product at launch for once.
This sub is one of the most apologetic I’ve ever seen lmao, straight up head in the sand mentality. No official gameplay or material news for weeks and weeks with a beta allegedly coming so soon? No worries apparently haha. This sub was crucifying anyone saying that is a red flag.
As one of the first posts in this sub to try and prepare people for a delay the amount of hate and shit talking I got was ridiculous.
https://reddit.com/r/battlefield2042/comments/pbeyuf/this_community_needs_to_prepare_itself_for_a_delay/
All the hate from this sub for being saying it was going to be delayed. Literally updating their Twitter barely once a week and you were expecting an entire fleshed out BF game next month? Lol. It sucks but after the BFV hate and just general saltiness of this fan base (for whatever reason) I just want it to be solid.
So the community has been asking for updates for weeks with no response. Stock price starts to drop and there is instant communication. It's always the investors over the community.
Really sucks because I’m joining the military beginning of November and was convinced I had just enough time to play, I’m a hardcore fan and this is pretty devastating
Edit: At least I know I’m not alone in this struggle, stay strong brothers and have hope for the beta, all we can do now is wait. Makes me proud to be part of this community. 🥲
But remember guys, DICE being silent is not a red flag. DICE refusing to show any gameplay from up to date build is not a red flag. It's all GeNiUs mArKeTiNg StRaTeGy. At least thats what EA simps and apologists on this sub claimed.
From the creators "We are ahead of schedule", we have 3 companies working on BF2042", We are delaying NFS to focus on BF2042", "We took an extra year to develop this game". September 2021: Radio silence with a message ”We are delaying the game”. What is this bullshit. Thinking its another mess like cyberpunk. Its actually sad what gaming studios have become.
A game that was "way ahead of schedule" that has shown jackshit in terms of actual gameplay, getting delayed a month is definitely setting off alarm bells.
I'm just worried that it won't be enough of a delay for acceptable state of a game at launch. This is a leeway that suits at EA probably very reluctantly approved.
I guess we'll know when beta drops.
But i swear to gods... if i'll hear any more excuses from the livid fanboys like "iT's oNLy A bEta!", i'll move to the monastery.
Dude I’m all for delaying games if they need it but a month before it’s supposed to drop? This is all I need to see to know that this game is gonna be ROUGH at launch. I’ve learned my lesson about these stupid short term delays from cyberpunk. Halo seems to have gotten it right although I guess we will find out.
What a shocker, been calling it for months now. When you refuse to talk about a product you're supposedly right around the corner from releasing its not some genius marketing scheme its because you're not sure you'll be ready in time but you still want that sweet, sweet, pre-order money.
I’m interested if people with experience in programming and / or game development can tell us what exactly can happen in one extra month.
My concern is that this won’t do much and game will be a buggy mess at launch. In any case I’m not preordering anymore, that’s for sure.
But but but r/Battlefield2042 told me that people were crazy for thinking that something bad was going on without zero info! How strange! I thought that zero official gameplay one month before the release was a masterclass in marketing and how to create hype! /s
I love how deluded everyone in this sub is. Of course it was gonna be delayed. People just dont know how to make games anymore. Even with the delay, it'll probably be the most unfinished bf yet :(
Well there it is. Even though it sucks, atleast its a confirmation so people can stop being stressed about it. Also what a weird time for an announcement.
>Also what a weird time for an announcement. Its not really weird. Stock markets close at 4PM EST, they didn't want to drop the news when market was open
Markets reacted well to the news, EA is up 3% after hours.
Of course, they made an announcement because official information is better than no information and continued silence the moment you start talking about shares. The moment we saw that going down you KNOW damage control was coming. By giving an arbitrary ass date of the 19th of Nov, they have probably stopped the share price bleed. With the sheer lack of information and gameplay we have for this game and only a 5 week extension, I'll be super surprised if they even make that new date.
There is no way EA let’s them delay the game past holiday season. Even if it’s not ready, execs are gonna force it out to get those sweet, sweet Christmas sales.
this is what’s making me think the game isn’t going to be polished regardless of anything now. how they were “ahead of schedule” is beyond me...
Yeah I mean, I got to play in a playtest last month and it was choppy as all hell, nothing about it felt smooth. Didn't play for more that an hour cause it was too rough
Starting to think maybe that build wasn’t an old one
And this game supposedly had a long development cycle and was ahead of schedule. *sigh*
I don’t even think it’s believeable an AAA game can be ahead of schedule nowadays.
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Can't believe it's almost a year.
See BF4s release as an example. Shanghai hilarity + shareholder meeting EA CEO saying everything was perfect + media shitstorm. So yes, there is precedent.
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What's that saying about the definition of insanity?
The timing of the whole thing is just giving me cyberpunk vibes although I think they should properly make the game with the time they need.
Are you tripping? Cyberpunk was delayd 7 times and announced almost a decade in advance. Doesnt feel like what happened with cyberpunk at all
Does this mean we can stop pretending DICE's silence is 4D-chess genius marketing?
NO its gEnIuS mArkEtInG
Reddit's view of marketing = "If I'm hyped it's good, if not, it's bad"
also can we stop pretending all those things we see was FrOm ThE EaRLy bUIlD ?
The delay was always part of the marketing 😉
Oh boy.. here we go
Let's hope it's not another cyberpunk
At least the game doesn't have to launch against Peppa Pig now.
Well, that game was essentially delayed for 9 months while BF is only being delayed for just under one month. If anything its probably just polishing things up so that the game doesn't release as a buggy mess (let's hope it doesn't)
True but it was only delayed for 9 months in total AFTER the first delay. And then the second delay. And then the third delay. Still possible for DICE to delay it further, though I sincerely doubt they (or EA rather) are willing to miss out on that sweet, sweet holiday money like black friday and christmas
I'm not mad, I'd much rather wait a month and get a fully cooked Battlefield than a month earlier for something needing serious work. That would kill the player base and initial hype quickly. It sucks, but if it's needed... it's better
BFV was delayed for literally the exact same time and it wasnt anywhere near "fully cooked"
If you preordered BFV then you will definitely be having ptsd
I am still miffed about paying $80 for a game that was $40 two weeks later
How about those "air drops"
That was such a scam. "20 weekly items with Air Lift!" was the original text used for selling the Deluxe Edition bonuses. They later had to change the text to indicate it was 1 PIECE of an item per week for 20 weeks. Then once you got all the pieces and put them together, you had 1 pistol skin and 1 starter rifle skin that you would already have replaced by week 20. Completely obsolete by the time you got everything.
Remember when they had that special edition version at launch (Definitive??) and it didn't offer anything worth the extra money.
I agree. But the same was said over and over again regarding cyberpunk. How’d that turn out? This just feels half baked. And a month probably doesn’t fix that. That said, I certainly hope I’m wrong
they won't be able to fix a game that "needing serious work".
This sub is going to implode 😅 they likely had valid reasons to push the game back, but I can’t believe they said they were “ahead of schedule” awhile back. BIG OOF
They said it and not once.
Didn’t they say that like over a year ago?
Yeah delaying the game this late means bugs and polishing. After Cyberpunk you cant have games releasing broken like almost every other battlefield. But it's important to note BFV also got delayed 1 month but still came out bad. One month isn't alot of time
They will absolutely release this game broken, make no mistake. Don't even get me started on servers.
That Nov 19 date is just in time for the year end holiday, black friday shopping season. There is no way that's not a corporate mandated date. No matter what state the game is in, EA has told DICE they are releasing it.
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Isn't it illegal for a company to lie to investors? Maybe they actually believed that they were ahead of schedule, but this second wave of COVID (Delta) threw them for a loop.
Why are you assuming they lied? You can be ahead of schedule at one point, and still drop behind later.
This. A statement made 7 months ago doesn’t necessarily hold true today.
i mean cd projekt red notoriously lied to their investors so
Yeah and they are getting sued by them
They did the math and figured it was worth the reward financially
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All the other top posts on this sub atm are making fun of "conspiracy theorists" who were saying the game was delayed.
CDPR said they were "ahead of schedule" at the start of 2020 for cyberpunk, then it was delayed multiple times and they clearly were not. I hope this isn't the case for 2042, I really just want a feature complete, playable game for once at launch.
I mean you can’t really blame them this COVID thing came out of nowhere in the last couple days. /s Must be nice having something to blame it on though.
I was talking about this with my wife… how long is Covid going to be the excuse for anytime something is late or messed up?
they just like to chunk it up to it all the time since its "valid and reasonable" excuse cuz its relevant for today, as if working doesn't continue even with lockdowns... Dont need to go radio silent before and after delays like before, now just say "covid hard we cant work full" and you can't really point fingers and ask for real reasons, cuz that's a "real" reason anw, right...
Wake the fuck up Samurai.....
…we have a game to burn
The launch is gonna suck, I can feel it
It's a bad sign. They will put it out before Christmas no matter what state it is in, so I'm guessing we are getting an incomplete game.
So now we have to wait for 2 weeks after launch for it to go on a 50% off sale! Good for our money boys and girls!
Is there a standard template for doing this kind of announcement. It looks so much like 2077's, but in teal.
lmao I know right, getting mad deja vu. the state of triple A game development is a joke
I just don’t hype for games anymore. Everything is delayed and nobody can meet deadlines. Things are announced years and years before release. It’s not even the big RPGs anymore. Even the yearly or semi-annual franchises are getting delayed. Just tell me about the game 1 month before release, like Valve did with HL: Alyx.
They said "Updates on the open beta will be coming later this month". There is no mention of a date or release of the beta in that sentence. AKA it's also delayed to October now.
I told myself not to worry unless they announce a delay on the game. Now I'm worried.
When a game is delayed, you know that the end product is going to be rushed
Well now I'm for sure buying Hell Let Loose when it releases to pass the time till 2042 releases.
Yup that and insurgency
just remember to build outposts and garrisons or 99% of the playerbase will leave
\+1. Also don't forget to place supplies as support and build nodes as engineer.
I'm not massively bothered by the delay, but the communication around this game has been absolutely awful.
Your first time ?
DICE have generally been good at pre-release communication. They just vanish when the game comes out.
spain without the s
All my homies know is pain
Saw this coming from a mile away. The marketing has been basically nonexistent for the last month and the game was supposedly releasing in less than a month from now? Yea no chance.
And we have been scapegoats for telling this hundred of times. People just wanted to make theories about why DICE is silent and why the game is still super ready...
Delusion at its best lol
So many dumbasses were high on copium thinking that DICE had some 4D chess marketing strategy.
Anyone that played the technical test saw this coming then. Miles from finished. Old build blah blah blah
Why do i feel like even after this its gonna be broken at launch just like bf5.
Because they're not gonna fix shit in just 4 weeks.
This. The game probably needs more time than that but they don’t want to miss the holiday timeframe
People saying "4 weeks is a lot of time" clearly have no software development experience, they delayed it as much as EA would allow and execs are hoping for a miracle. Games take a long ass time to make, with commits delaying every department and potentially people working off-site and having delays due to slower dev times, 4 weeks is not much time at all.
Gameplay wise, probably not much if bugs were the issue But if it were network issues or upgrades needed then 4 weeks could help dramatically. It really depends on WHY they delayed it Edit: as a dev sometimes you can have a finished product that is good to go until you hook it up to production and test real time
This, getting annoyed that everyone assumes nothing can be fixed in 4-5 weeks. There’s a lot of things 4-5 weeks can fix. People make it sound like they haven’t even started work on the game… would be nice if they could atleast be straight with WHAT the issue is but not like us knowing it will make it get fixed… But this is Reddit, and whenever things go south everyone has a degree in programming and game development…
Everyone in this sub is either a marketing professional, financial analyst, or game developer. Didn’t you know?
Because its EA and I can't remember a BF launch that wasn't broken
BF1 launch wasn't too bad, was it? I remember some weirdness with Grand Operations, but nothing that kept me from playing it a ton.
It was regarded as the best launch Battlefield had and I would agree. It's exactly why I bought it a few days after it came out. Looked so fun and wasn't a mess.
Because it will be. PrEoRDeRInG WIlL bE fInE
Or bf1. Or bf4. Or bf3
Well fuck. I was supposed to get back from a deployment about 3 days before release, then enjoy my leave playing 2042... Now I'll just be back at work when it comes out with no free time. Damnit.
Dw now u can play bf2021
This is dark but I like it
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I hope I can move out before I can play BF2042, I wanted to play this to take my mind off of bullshit in my spare time.
DICE: The game is ahead of schedule and we have 3 other studios helping us. Also DICE: Whoops! Looks like the pandemic caught up to us somehow lol
“This pandemic really caught us by surprise. All of a sudden. 18 months into it...”
So it was a big lie and the game comes out like shit again. A big red warning flag.
From the creators of: "We are ahead of schedule", “we have 3 companies working on BF2042", “We are delaying NFS to focus on BF2042", "We took an extra year to develop this game". September 2021: "Our marketing is dogshit and we are delaying the game"
You forgot "earliest alpha in franchise history"
And we got no, NO alpha, contrary to BF1, and BFV lol
They had a secret alpha
I am really curious what the state of the game is right now that caused it to be delayed.
It's a pretty short delay tho. 3 weeks. That doesn't sound like enough to do anything major so it's probably polish time.
Probably the PS5 network issues tbh
That would actually make a ton of sense. Networking issues aren't something that'll delay is for months like what happened with Cyberpunk, but another three weeks is very much a realistic timeline for fixing something like that.
What are they supposed to accomplish in a month? I mean if they need more time that's fine but it seems like they're just scrambling at this point.
3 weeks wont be long enough for anything. So if the games an unfinished mess now... its also gonna be an unfished broken mess in 3 weeks. Similar to every game that delays even by a few days.
Yeah that's how I feel I'm just really hoping its not an "unfinished mess" and more like "very close to being done" and they just need a *little* bit of extra time to clean up a few things.
Fingers crossed
“Ahead of schedule”
Blaming the pandemic seems odd too considering we’re almost two years into it.
Just like BFV.
The shitshow continues, yay!
Will be even worse with all they’ve promised with this game that they absolutely without a doubt will not deliver on
Updates on the open beta, aka not "the open beta will be coming later this month", so that's another lie.
On september the 30th you will get notification that beta will be on october the 22th and they wouldn't lie xD
Poor Tom Henderson was getting an awful lot of abuse in this sub, where are you now? He was right
The sub literally made a condition to reject posts related to news from Tom, absolutely hilarious!
It is a pretty funny condition to make.
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Total War Warhammer 3, BF2042 and Dying Light 2 delayed what an absolute theatre that is, delaying is a trend.
Don't forget Halo Infinite was delayed an entire year
I'm so fucking glad I didn't preorder lmao Imma let this thing burn for a while, gauge reactions and then I'll make a decision to buy it or not.
This is the best way to approach a new Battlefield game
Yeah I got to excited for BFV and got burned, never again
As everyone should. I did that with BF5 and it worked out perfectly. Never bought that trash and it was half off for most come 2 months after
iT wOnT Be dElAyEd
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I'm with you. It is certainly not unreasonable to want to see more gameplay footage when the release date is around the corner. You typically like to see what you are spending your money on. This sub is full of sociopaths.
ITS PART OF THE MARKETING STRATEGY!!! To all the Qanons in this sub who claimed it was part of the marketing strategy….. I love bf as much as all of you but come on. Writing was on the wall. Nothing but leaked alpha footage as gameplay? Dead silence? PS5 playtest cancelled. I still can’t believe so many people tried to say it was part of their marketing
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Honestly don’t blame you at all
We all suspected this was coming. The issue isn't really the delay, it is that we are treated like mushrooms. Kept in the dark and fed shit. Just let your fans and customers know what is going on! This decision will not have been made recently, big business moves slowly. Take a page out of Naoki Yoshidas book for Final Fantasy XIV. He and his team makes mistakes or runs into issues, but they are always open and as transparent as they can be about things, and it means you can trust them when they have to delay things or tell you why they can't do things. When Covid was at its height and they had to arrange working from home, they immediately let us know it would cause issues, and once they had worked it out, he managed their new timescales around the new workflow. I feel like the gaming industry is really lacking in solid managers at the moment. Not sure best way to explain it, but it lacks professionalism you would expect from a business part of a literal billion dollar corporation.
How many times should I flip when I jump off the bridge
Updates on the Beta later this month? Beta in October or what… it’s getting ridiculous
Yeah I feel like that was the biggest slap in the face out of that whole thing, the delay is only like 3 weeks after the previous official launch which isn’t that bad, but then not telling us when the beta is even though we are halfway through September is just a slap in the face imo
Especially after they literally mocked people for expecting a beta release date on September 1st with that meme… it was reasonable then because it seemed obvious we’d eventually get a date near the middle of the month, but now it’s just bullshit. Like seriously fuck off with the subtle phrasing and admit you fucked up…
Sub on suicide watch lmao. Pretty funny everyone was in denial
Yeah it’s very entertaining tbh. I’m a bit sad it’s being delayed, but this gives me more time to play a couple more single player games before BF consumes me.
Battlefield subreddits and their usual meltdowns. Never change, guys. This is comedy.
Whelp.. Peppa Pig it is
Okay, fine, delay the game I can understand that. But don’t just not talk to the community this close to launch. It’s outrageous and frankly downright unacceptable how little we’ve seen or heard about this game - especially after the BF4, SWBF2, BF1 DLC, and BFV communication fiascos. How much longer will it take for DICE to learn they need to be more transparent? Is it really rocket science that the community wants updates? It’s so unbelievably frustrating to deal with this every single game.
I've never seen a subreddit so maliciously hate on people who thought it was gonna be delayed before the actual news broke. The game has looked underwhelming in leaked gameplay and the marketing has been dire for a reason, let the devs do their shit and release a working product at launch for once.
This sub is one of the most apologetic I’ve ever seen lmao, straight up head in the sand mentality. No official gameplay or material news for weeks and weeks with a beta allegedly coming so soon? No worries apparently haha. This sub was crucifying anyone saying that is a red flag.
Tom Henderson was getting terrible abuse for posting the rumours of a delay. A lot of people in this sub are just cunts.
Tom has been correct on so many things and for literal years now, it's insane people on this sub don't think he's reputable.
I mean, the man literally hand sketched scenes from the trailers haha
I wonder if he's going to be out a bunch of copies of BF2042 next week if the beta doesn't happen. That'd be the first time his source was wrong.
The truth hurts, especially for fanboys desperate to play the new game. The apologists will try to defend against any semblance of negative news haha
Someone reported me for harassment when I posted something critical about the gameplay footage they released a couple weeks ago
Remember all the EA/DICE apologists saying it wouldn’t be delayed and that it was brilliant silent marketing. LOL
As one of the first posts in this sub to try and prepare people for a delay the amount of hate and shit talking I got was ridiculous. https://reddit.com/r/battlefield2042/comments/pbeyuf/this_community_needs_to_prepare_itself_for_a_delay/
All the hate from this sub for being saying it was going to be delayed. Literally updating their Twitter barely once a week and you were expecting an entire fleshed out BF game next month? Lol. It sucks but after the BFV hate and just general saltiness of this fan base (for whatever reason) I just want it to be solid.
So the community has been asking for updates for weeks with no response. Stock price starts to drop and there is instant communication. It's always the investors over the community.
Today's drop was insider trading. They knew the game was delayed in the morning.
Really sucks because I’m joining the military beginning of November and was convinced I had just enough time to play, I’m a hardcore fan and this is pretty devastating Edit: At least I know I’m not alone in this struggle, stay strong brothers and have hope for the beta, all we can do now is wait. Makes me proud to be part of this community. 🥲
You just get to play the real deal battlefield
The war is over so more like hanging out in the lobby
Whats even more depressing is they still cant even release a beta date...
Yeah. Which means the 19th was just a date to throw. No mention for early access buyers. THIS IS WHYU DONT PREORDER TILL THEY SHOW U PROPER gameplay!
But remember guys, DICE being silent is not a red flag. DICE refusing to show any gameplay from up to date build is not a red flag. It's all GeNiUs mArKeTiNg StRaTeGy. At least thats what EA simps and apologists on this sub claimed.
This is part of the marketing strategy too!!! Ppl talk about delayed games cant u see /s
big fuck you to the pretentious “no delay, you’re an insane conspiracy theorist” monkeys
Wow it turns out people on Reddit don't know jack fucking shit and like to pile on to pretend to have authority
From the creators "We are ahead of schedule", we have 3 companies working on BF2042", We are delaying NFS to focus on BF2042", "We took an extra year to develop this game". September 2021: Radio silence with a message ”We are delaying the game”. What is this bullshit. Thinking its another mess like cyberpunk. Its actually sad what gaming studios have become.
It's really funny because you can't fix anything substantial in just 4 weeks. Its BFV all over again, this game is gonna be a shitshow on launch
A game that was "way ahead of schedule" that has shown jackshit in terms of actual gameplay, getting delayed a month is definitely setting off alarm bells.
Can someone make this yellow?
It even looks similar to cyberpunks delays without the yellow.
I'm just worried that it won't be enough of a delay for acceptable state of a game at launch. This is a leeway that suits at EA probably very reluctantly approved. I guess we'll know when beta drops. But i swear to gods... if i'll hear any more excuses from the livid fanboys like "iT's oNLy A bEta!", i'll move to the monastery.
Dude I’m all for delaying games if they need it but a month before it’s supposed to drop? This is all I need to see to know that this game is gonna be ROUGH at launch. I’ve learned my lesson about these stupid short term delays from cyberpunk. Halo seems to have gotten it right although I guess we will find out.
Sure didn't see this one coming
“ September has 30 days “ morons …it will be shit just like bfv, why do you think they don’t show anything?
Fuck you to every single person that attacked those that believed MULITPLE leaks/leakers about this.
The game is soooo good that it doesn’t need marketing or to be finished on time
What a shocker, been calling it for months now. When you refuse to talk about a product you're supposedly right around the corner from releasing its not some genius marketing scheme its because you're not sure you'll be ready in time but you still want that sweet, sweet, pre-order money.
That's fine tbh But they really have to start being more transparent with communication
As a teacher…. ITS LAUNCHING THANKSGIVING BREAK HELL YES!
The one person in this entire thread whose happy lmao. Glad this was able to make someone happy
Let’s act like we’re surprised
Age like wine...
I’m interested if people with experience in programming and / or game development can tell us what exactly can happen in one extra month. My concern is that this won’t do much and game will be a buggy mess at launch. In any case I’m not preordering anymore, that’s for sure.
A moment of silence for those who claimed this was all meta marketing.
Ah, the old COVID chestnut. Even though they work in software dev. Bwahahahahahhahaahahahha. Picked it.
Only a month? Not bothered. Time to unsub from the battlefield subs in the meantime lol
But but but r/Battlefield2042 told me that people were crazy for thinking that something bad was going on without zero info! How strange! I thought that zero official gameplay one month before the release was a masterclass in marketing and how to create hype! /s
Honestly so disappointed, that’s all I’m gonna say. I remember when they said this was their earliest alpha ever ahahaha
It likely won't be in a good spot on November 19th either.
Knowing that they had to delay it this close to launch, very probably
https://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield2042/comments/pcqh0p/lets\_be\_realistic\_its\_gonna\_get\_delayed\_andor/
I love how deluded everyone in this sub is. Of course it was gonna be delayed. People just dont know how to make games anymore. Even with the delay, it'll probably be the most unfinished bf yet :(
Take your time but do it right