The marketing and timing for this is abysmal. Release date is a week before RD2 and besides the wacky trailer and a handful of beta clips I've barely seen much about this game. It's hardly a surprise that sales are down.

It's looking like another Hardline at this rate unless they pull something out of the bag at the last minute tbh.

I've never been into Battlefield games, but it seemed weird how over the top things looked in the trailer. I've always understood BF to be more on the authentic side of war games. I'm guessing the fans of the franchise weren't all that excited since pre-order sales are way down apparently. That dude telling fans, "don't like it, don't buy it," certainly didn't help, I would imagine.

Saw an interview with a guy from Dice saying they were rethinking things and trying to make the game more authentic now, but I'm not so sure it isn't too late for this game. Only time will tell.

Also, wtf how did they accidentally censor the phrase "white man?" And why censor Nazi in a game about WW2? That's just fucking retarded.

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Not educated enough to play the beta.

>there's actually people not playing the game because there's female and black soldiers in it

Fucking hell.

Nah, I'm just not buying any new EA games (unless its cheap like Titanfall 2 [Still wish Respawn was under Bethesda])
But some ppl were genuinely upset that there is a crippled woman being the front and center of WW2 but BF was never historically accurate, was it? I didn't understand those people. Other camp of ppl got upset because instead of addressing the backlash, EA simply told people to not buy the game if they don't like it.

I didn't mean to imply that you were one of them. Just baffled by the people who make a fuss about this. I've put a few hours into the beta so far and haven't once stopped to notice or think about whether someone's character was a woman or black. There's historically inaccurate stuff happening every minute. I don't agree with how Dice responded but many of the responses are beyond petty.

>haha soyboy SJW snowflakes can't deal with anything and get triggered over memes
>wtf soldier is girl? #BOYCOTTEA #NOTMYBATTLEFIELD fucking feminazi agenda ruining everything

I thought the pushback was over the top

But censoring "white man" and "nazi" makes a case for them a little