I don't think most core BF fans care about the game having female amputees fighting... because for one, it's a fucking game. Two, it's Battlefield. and if you want to start in about inaccuracies, then you better go back and replay 1942 all the way up to V, because you've clearly missed some inaccuracies over the years. The only thing that's ever been accurate about Battlefield is the year of the game. Where they shot themselves in the foot is how they handled the situation. They handled it poorly. If they had the right PR people in place, most people would have just moved on.
They shot themselves in the foot with a freaking RPG when they gave Origin Premier users access *BEFORE* Pre-orders. Essentially, they let millions of people try the game for $15. Thousands of people returned their pre-orders in favor of Origin Premier. When the game didn't pan out well, everyone just canceled. The quickest way to turn $60 into $15. Great job, EA!
This worked out well for me and several people I know. We all returned our pre-orders and went with Premier. After a few days, they released the Day1 patch, which broke the game for a lot of people... We would randomly crash somewhere between 30seconds to 2hours. No error popups or anything. Windows Event viewer gave a crash code. Upon looking up that crash code, you'd see a couple posts for BFV....However, you'd see that same error and symptom showing up in both Battlefront games and BF1.... So... For a game that was supposedly written from scratch...well... it wasn't. Kind of leaves a salty taste in your mouth. Then the December patch was delayed past my Premier bill date, so canceling premier became a very easy decision.
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I don't think most core BF fans care about the game having female amputees fighting... because for one, it's a fucking game. Two, it's Battlefield. and if you want to start in about inaccuracies, then you better go back and replay 1942 all the way up to V, because you've clearly missed some inaccuracies over the years. The only thing that's ever been accurate about Battlefield is the year of the game. Where they shot themselves in the foot is how they handled the situation. They handled it poorly. If they had the right PR people in place, most people would have just moved on. They shot themselves in the foot with a freaking RPG when they gave Origin Premier users access *BEFORE* Pre-orders. Essentially, they let millions of people try the game for $15. Thousands of people returned their pre-orders in favor of Origin Premier. When the game didn't pan out well, everyone just canceled. The quickest way to turn $60 into $15. Great job, EA! This worked out well for me and several people I know. We all returned our pre-orders and went with Premier. After a few days, they released the Day1 patch, which broke the game for a lot of people... We would randomly crash somewhere between 30seconds to 2hours. No error popups or anything. Windows Event viewer gave a crash code. Upon looking up that crash code, you'd see a couple posts for BFV....However, you'd see that same error and symptom showing up in both Battlefront games and BF1.... So... For a game that was supposedly written from scratch...well... it wasn't. Kind of leaves a salty taste in your mouth. Then the December patch was delayed past my Premier bill date, so canceling premier became a very easy decision.