When it was released, Battlefield 2042 was one of the worst disappointments of the year 2021. A game riddled with bugs, unable to find real players, very badly optimized and above all far too incomplete to be enjoyable. After weeks of hard start, we had to face the facts, Battlefield 2042 was a big flop. Many players asked for a refund, while others waited patiently for the problems to be corrected one by one, until the majority of users had jumped ship.
Today, Battlefield 2042 is still a ghost game, never mentioned and hardly used - or at least appreciated. And yet, it is the successor to a remarkable franchise that has become a pillar in the world of FPS. If Battlefield 2042 didn't catch on with fans of the genre, it's mainly because of EA's redesign, which turned the title into a service game.
The return of war stories? Not so sure
No single-player campaign, a large-scale multiplayer mode, boosted by the AI, but cruelly lacking in really useful novelties; this is what the famous license has become. Almost a year after this bitter failure, it seems that EA is about to correct its mistakes, or at least one of them. In a press release, the firm announced the creation of the Ridgeline Games studio, which has a very specific goal :
"Led by Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto and comprised of industry veterans from around the world, Ridgeline Games will focus on developing a narrative campaign in the Battlefield universe. [...] With their ambition, passion and years of experience on some of the gaming industry's best titles, Marcus and his team are eager to tell stories and take players on incredible adventures that are only possible in the Battlefield universe."
This enigmatic message informs us that EA doesn't intend to stick to its guns and admits that it needs the narrative aspect of Battlefield to win over the hearts of its players. It must be said that the war stories of the previous opuses had hit the spot. However, there is no mention of 2042, so it could be a brand new project, or even a paid expansion. We'll have to wait for more information from the studio to know more.
