Are DICE and EA shooting themselves in the foot by delaying Battlefield 2042 season 1?
At the moment, Battlefield 2042 is still in its “pre-season” phase with no apparent end in sight. It doesn’t help that EA has uncharacteristically remained mum about the game’s future. To make matters worse, a dataminer has found “proof” that EA and DICE are planning for Battlefield 2042’s “pre-season” to go on for much longer. According to temporyal, the Battlefield 2042 client contains data for 12 weekly pre-season missions.
🗓️ Season 1 seems to be scheduled for March 2022 (unless they’ve added a few weeks as “backup”). 🇨🇦 “Exposure” is probably the final name for the previously datamined “Ridge” map. 🎄 Happy Holidays! pic.twitter.com/FBuxapZvjl — temporyal (@temporyal) December 19, 2021 Of course, the datamined information does not confirm anything. EA and DICE could have just added “extra” missions in case of a delay. However, if everything you just read is true, the pre-season will end right around the end of February. This would also mean that the first season of Battlefield 2042 will start in March if not later. Another interesting part about the datamined information is a map that appears to be located in the Canadian Rockies. If this is implemented, the upcoming “Exposure” map will be the first multiplayer map in a Battlefield game that’s set in North America in a while. The last time a military map was set in North America was in 2010 in Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Naturally, fans are up in arms about the recent leak. Some are also pointing out how this has been EA’s MO in recent years. For example, with 2015’s Star Wars: Battlefront 2, the game also launched in a laughably sorry state. EA then spent the next several months trying to whip the game up into shape to attract enough players. Then, once the player base was starting to grow, EA went ahead and axed support for the game, apparently because the growth wasn’t happening as fast as it wanted. The same thing also happened to 2018’s Battlefield V, the Battlefield game immediately prior to Battlefield 2042. If this is true, then things are about to get a lot worse for Battlefield fans before they get better. Hopefully, this isn’t the case though. The publisher has thrown too much money at Battlefield 2042 for it to fail. Unfortunately, if it keeps up its current trajectory, it’s in grave danger of hemorrhaging even more players. It’s arguably the weakest of the fall shooters, lagging behind Call of Duty: Vanguard and Halo Infinite.
