Battlefield 2042 is over. What happens to the saga now?

The latest to fall has been Battlefield 2042 after seven honorable seasons.

When all game developers announced that the future of the medium would follow the “Fortnite-like” model (divided into seasons that would be updated every quarter), many of us thought that the system wouldn’t be able to handle so many ‘Fortnites’ at once. And indeed, that’s been the case. The latest to fall has been ‘Battlefield 2042’ after a respectable seven seasons: the game, which appeared in 2021 to lukewarm reviews – to put it kindly – reaches its final stop, but that doesn’t mean that EA is willing to let go of its golden goose. Or something similar to gold, at least.

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The good part, if you are a fan of the franchise, is that the lack of future updates does not mean that the servers will close, so you can keep shooting to your heart’s content until they announce the next game, which they have already announced will be terribly ambitious. In fact, to help them, EA has assembled a team from Motive Studio, the creators of ‘Star Wars Squadrons’ or the remake of ‘Dead Space’. Big words.

The team has been chosen for “their proven experience in storytelling, creating immersive battles, and developing on the Frostbite engine.” However, that doesn’t mean you should expect the next Battlefield made by them tomorrow morning. On the contrary: the team has already stated that it is not their only priority and they are still working on the ‘Iron Man’ video game which could be the hit that our hearts need to hold onto our love for superheroes.

Does this mean that we won’t have a new Battlefield game until we forget about the saga? Not necessarily: ‘Battlefield 1’ and ‘Battlefield V’ (first of all, no confusion with the names) were released with a two or three-year gap, and that’s probably what they will end up looking for by having multiple studios working on their projects at the same time. Get your machine gun ready, because it may not be silent for many more months.

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If you’re waiting for the next Battlefield, we’re afraid EA is in no hurry to release it

If you’re waiting for the next Battlefield, we’re afraid EA is in no hurry to release it, as it could take at least another year to launch.

Although Call of Duty has accustomed us to the annual release cadence, this is not the reality for all the great games in the genre. Battlefield 2042 was released three years ago and fans are clamoring for more. Especially after the disastrous launch and a series of updates that, far from fixing it, only deepened many of its problems. This has led players to expect a new installment, less focused on the game as a service.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like a new Battlefield will happen anytime soon. EA has recently confirmed that their intention is to have new releases of iconic franchises like Mass Effect, Star Wars, and also Battlefield, starting from 2025. So we will still have to wait for this to happen.

What’s worse, Battlefield 2042 seems to have had a lackluster 2023 by any possible metric. In recent months, it has had record-breaking revenue, earning over one billion nine hundred million dollars in profits during the second quarter of 2023, among all of EA’s service games. An improvement over the predicted one billion eight hundred million, partly thanks to Battlefield’s good performance.

That’s why Battlefield won’t see a new installment anytime soon. In fact, its seventh season will arrive next March. So, Battlefield fans, we’re afraid you’ll have to learn to love Battlefield 2042, or have even more patience with EA.

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