Edited by Yujin Tchun
A terrible launch for Battlefield 2042 sees itself as one of the worst-reviewed games on Steam, despite Battlefield 2042 continuing to be one of the most played games on Steam. Battlefield 2042 is a first-person shooter video game developed by Swedish video game developer, DICE, and published by American video game company Electronic Arts, on the 19th of November 2021 (Moore, 2021).
According to Steam 250’s Hall of Shame, the game has now entered the top 10 worst-reviewed games of all time, currently resting on the 8th position (Moore, 2021). Moreover, as the number of negative reviews have been constantly increasing this past week, Battlefield 2042 will most likely go further up the list. Currently, Battlefield 2042 has seen more than 30,000 negative reviews of their 42,000 reviews (71.4%) on their platform (Araullo, 2021).
Users posting negative reviews for the game have cited numerous reasons to justify their negative reviews, with some popular reasons including broken vehicles, bad hitboxes, terrible PC performance, issues with bullet registration and accuracy, as well as a lack of features, such as the lack of features within guns and vehicles (Araullo, 2021).
Regarding the negative feedback, DICE launched an update to the game in order to improve player experiences. As per a tweet by DICE, the release of the update has helped improve the smoothness of the experience on servers. Despite this, Battlefield 2042 is still in rough shape, and the game continues to receive negative reviews by thousands of unpleased users (Yeung, 2021).
“When BF3 came out, I thought to myself, imagine how Battlefield will look like in ten years. Was not expecting this....” described one popular Steam review (Zwiezen, 2021).
While I guarantee DICE will work to improve Battlefield 2042 across all platforms in the coming future, I believe it was not necessary for the video game to be released this year. This trend has been quite evident recently. From Battlefield 2042 to Cyberpunk 2077, games are overpromising, and under delivering. However, the year 2021 has also seen some great releases such as Resident Evil Village.
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