Today i wanted to make a video about why i quit playing battlefield 2042. i haven't uploaded a
battlefield 2042 video in i think around three months now and i haven't personally played the
game in about two months so yeah let's go ahead and try to find a game if that's even possible
anymore oh wow that was actually pretty fast i'm actually surprised i could find a game i
mean the last time i played battlefield 2042 it was taking a long ass time to find games and when
you get thrown into these lobbies there would be so many bots because so many people actually quit
playing this game this really feels like kind of a strange video to make it's like why is a call
of duty player talking about why he quit playing a battlefield game i don't know if you can see that
screenshot but i poured 128 hours into this game 128 hours of my life that i will never get back
i've got tier 1 mckay and the tier one k30 that's so gross i actually i'm making this video because
i actually gave battlefield 2042 a chance even when everyone was shooting on the game and saying
how terrible it was i was actually still having fun and enjoying the game and now it's barely
working still i was like you know what even though everyone's talking [ __ ] about this game like i'm
still personally enjoying it i'm having fun so i'm gonna give it a try and that's what i did
i just kept playing this game i actually was enjoying it more than vanguard and halo infinite
regardless of recording and making videos like this was the game that i would get on and play
every single night oh wow there's actually no rooftop objectives would you look at that
ah we got the ai when it really boils down to it there's a couple reasons why i ultimately
decided to quit playing this game not too long after battlefield 2042 released we
got a surprise release of the halo infinite multiplayer and when that came out it was
just so polished it was actually really good when i saw the halo infinite multiplayer i
was like golly jeeper gosh guys this is so much better than battlefield 2042 i think
i'm just gonna have to quit battlefield 2042 forever so that was pretty much the first thing
look at me go killing the bots oh yes the only people left on the game the second reason i quit
battlefield 2042 is when pokemon legends rc is released when pokemon legends arceus came out
i was completely speckled i was like wow this game is so polished it's so good and when you
compare that game to battlefield 2042 you can't help but realize wow battlefield 2042
is just not as good not as polished and then recently the final straw got pulled
out of the soda when the video game eldon ring came out it was so polished and it was just so
incredible that battlefield 2042 would just not be able to hold up in comparison but really
when it boils down to it none of those things actually matter because you see guys my car
was dirty and recently i needed to take it to the auto shop and they just polished it so good
that when i got my car back i was like [ __ ] battlefield 2042 my car is more polished than
this game so i'm just never gonna play it again that's exactly how it went down
obviously i'm just joking i mean that was actually the ea executive's response to battlefield 2042
not performing as well as they wanted it to they essentially blamed halo infinite's
surprise multiplayer like free-to-play launch as the reason why battlefield 2042 was not as
big of a hit not because of performance issues not because of tons of bugs and glitches and
not because of the inclusion of specialists they looked at all of those glaring issues and said no
it is because of halo infinite's existence this has become one of my personal new favorite memes
anytime something is genuinely bad you could just arbitrarily blame it on some random thing
that has nothing to do with anything oh no i lost a couple million dollars in the stock
market it's that [ __ ] halo infinite multiplayer surprise launch that's probably what did it egad
all of the fruit in my refrigerator has expired faster than i expected it to it's all because
multiplayer ever being for real here that's a completely [ __ ] excuse and they're just
covering up for the fact that the game was rushed out and the game needed some very crucial updates
over the christmas break but they were on holiday and they couldn't do anything to fix the game
yo wait what i can't why is my aim broken oh that still happens sometimes when you instantly deploy
into a vehicle your aim completely breaks i can't believe they haven't fixed that probably halo
infinite's fault now there are some things i want to mention because i know that i'm basically like
the black sheep here i'm like an outlier and one of the few people that actually likes battlefield
2842 early as used too as far as it goes for the timeline and the trajectory of how everything went
with this game when they first announced this game i was so [ __ ] hyped man we were finally
getting a brand new modern battlefield game and they were gonna have the portal mode which was
gonna have like the classic battlefield games and stuff it was gonna have all these unique custom
experiences like it just it sounded so good but the execution of it all was just kind of
terrible it was rushed and it wasn't ready when battlefield fans were talking about rush coming
back we weren't talking about the development of the game that was purely about the game mode
space force oh my god one of the things that really bothers me is the fact that the beta of
the game was like just not even remotely close to ready some games have pre-alphas or alphas
or betas that basically are the full game like everything is basically ready to go and it really
just exists to hype the game up and nothing else that way people can get a little sampling a little
taste of the game and they can start to fall in love with the game before it's even out but that
was clearly not the case for battlefield 2042 and a lot of those glaring issues just spilled over
into the full release of the game and the thing that's really just so sad about this is that even
if dice steps up and they release some really awesome updates for this game it's really not
even gonna matter the player base is just not there anymore and even if they fix everything
which they haven't not even that many people are going to be able to experience it and enjoy it
dang we're actually the best squad because i joined now as far as it goes from my personal
experience with how this game runs on my pc it actually runs okay granted i'm a [ __ ] nerd and
i actually got a new pc before this game came out my pc has a 3090 it's got a really good processor
so it can run this game well regardless of the fact that the game is still not even optimized
that well but i think that really is one of the glaring issues with this game is the fact that
the game just does not perform well on any platform the largest group of players that
this game could possibly appeal to are people who are playing on xbox one and ps4 it is what it is
there's just not that many ps5s and xbox series x's sold and i granted there's a lot of people
playing on pc but i really do feel like not that many people would actually buy battlefield 2042
especially with all of like the stuff that was going on with the game early on so the only way
you could get more people to play this game on pc is if you made it free to play which i know that
they were talking about making an element of this game free to play like possibly the portal mode
which i'm actually playing right now we're on bad company too but that hasn't happened yet there's
no part of battlefield 2042 that is free yet so the way that they really should have looked at it
is that most of the people who are actually going to want to buy and play this game are probably
last gen console players and i can assure you that battlefield 2042 does not run as well i
think i had briefly played it on karina's ps4 and it is it's not the same game it really isn't we're
talking like black ops 3 on the xbox 360 level so bad granted there's less players in the server and
the the actual scale of the maps are reduced so that way the game can actually run i think looking
back that's gonna be one of the biggest missed opportunities of this game is the fact that it
couldn't even run well on the platform that most people will be playing it on so if the game is not
running well on the consoles i mean [ __ ] you've now lost a large portion of the casual player base
my god i just realized that there's no voice chat in this game too like it's so weird at least
compared to vanguard it's like you're playing a completely silent game it doesn't feel alive
so at this point you're probably wondering eric why are you not enjoying or playing battlefield
2042 anymore you said you were having fun with the game that it runs okay on your pc and that
the existence of halo infinite did not make you quit the game so why in the [ __ ] are you
quitting battlefield 2042 to be fair up until this point i have not played the game in two months so
in essence i've already quit playing the game i mean it's been over for me for quite a while and
after making this video i mean i don't really know if i'm even gonna be touching this game
again i would say that i fall more into the group of players who are just frustrated with the fact
that the game did not get the quality updates that it needed along with getting more content
i mean this game really just does not have that much content compared to like battlefield 4. that
game just had so much more content right off the bat and it got so much more dlc like a lot faster
than this game granted it also had a rough launch but it felt like dice got things under control way
faster and the game got supported with way more updates it got tons of awesome dlc this game's
been out for what like four or five months now and it still has not gotten the attention that it
needed still has all these like weird little bugs and problems that hasn't gotten any major content
yet just these goofy little weekly challenges that get you some kind of cosmetic item like what
i don't even know if portal specifically is gonna be getting more content but you know like
there's not that much in here now obviously just releasing new content wouldn't be able
to fix the existing issues with the game but at least it would have given us something else to do
ignoring the portal mode if you're looking strictly at battlefield 2042 there's just
not that many maps to play like i also got tired of playing the same maps over and over and over
again and since so many people were doing xp farming in the portal mode you really couldn't
play anything else other than the main battlefield 2042 modes to rank up what's so frustrating about
battlefield 2042 not being as good of the game as it could have been is that this is actually
just a concept that i love so much i don't necessarily mind the specialist that much
but i mean if i did classes instead i feel like a lot of people would have been happier i feel like
they should have ran some kind of poll about how the community would have felt about moving
away from classes and doing specialists instead because aside from the specialist versus classes
debate if this game was just released and it didn't have the bugs and glitches if it was
just properly optimized and had more content then i think this game could have actually been a huge
success it really could have had that potential to overtake call of duty for the year especially
when it comes to portal like everyone was just so excited when the portal mode was announced
but since the game wasn't ready and it wasn't fully realized it just ended up falling flat
at least i got it planted i just really hope that at some point they'll be able to own up
to the mistakes of this game's launch and how they handled everything post launch
there was this petition going around that got like hundreds of thousands of signatures
for people to get a refund on battlefield 2042 for ea to refund everyone who purchased battlefield
2042 and i don't personally think that anyone's gonna be getting a refund for battlefield 2042
like i just don't think they're gonna do that that is some very very wishful thinking at this
point i mean if they're blaming halo infinite's multiplayer as one of the main reasons why this
game did not succeed then i don't think anyone's getting a refund but i do agree that they have
to do something man because they've lost a lot of players as trust mine included and they're really
gonna need to set things up if they want people to actually play battlefield again
no get the objective come on we're about to win
ah they got it i do want to be as transparent as i possibly can be i did a couple of sponsored
videos for battlefield 2042 and at the time i was genuinely enjoying this game i put in the work i
put in the hours and i took what's ours i'm not someone who only played battlefield 2042 for like
a couple seconds i was grinding for quad feet with every gun on this game as well but after
everything that's happened i think i'm gonna be way less likely to trust battlefield again i'm
not trying to burn any bridges here but i do want to say that i think it's very unlikely that i'll
actually play another battlefield game again and obviously that includes taking a sponsored deal
for battlefield again i really don't see myself getting as invested in a battlefield game again
unless they explicitly say fully optimized lots of content they have to prove that they actually have
a strategy like post launch because just like the player base it feels like they have also
abandoned this game you know it's one thing for the player base to give up on the game because
they don't see the potential they don't see a future in the game but it's a completely different
story when it feels like the team who made the game has also given up nope don't even think about
it we're ending this never playing this game again dang is actually number one for kills and assists
oh man i'm gonna miss hearing this music you know i might actually go back to bad company
too i think that's what a lot of the battlefield community has actually done they've actually
left battlefield 2042 and they've gone back to play like battlefield 5 battlefield one
possibly battlefield three and four and maybe even bad company two i was actually thinking
about let's playing the bad company one and two campaign on nerd plays but yeah as far as
it goes for battlefield 2042 i i think i'm done i just really felt like i needed to make this video
because i saw some comments from people over time saying why did you stop playing this game why did
you stop posting it i was genuinely having fun and enjoying this [ __ ] game but it just fell
apart it sucks man it really does i'm ready if you are no no one's ready i really do wish that
this game did not turn out how it actually did i mean i've got a [ __ ] folder that's got like
hundreds of funny moment clips probably all wasted now because no one cares to even watch
this game i wouldn't even be surprised if not that many people watch this video just because
it has battlefield 2042 in the title it is what it is though man battlefield 2042 good concept
terrible execution but with that being said thank you guys very much for watching i hope you guys
enjoyed watching me quit battlefield 2042. if you guys did enjoy this video and you want the next
battlefield game to actually be good make sure to drop a like i'll see you guys later my ears