{"id":349863,"date":"2025-10-13T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/es\/?p=398730"},"modified":"2025-10-13T08:19:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T15:19:38","slug":"although-battlefield-is-dominating-sales-the-ceo-of-battlefield-studios-is-furious-with-ea-for-good-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/although-battlefield-is-dominating-sales-the-ceo-of-battlefield-studios-is-furious-with-ea-for-good-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Although Battlefield is dominating sales, the CEO of Battlefield Studios is furious with EA for good reason"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The launch of Battlefield 6 has been one of the highlights of the year, achieving an impressive record of over 750,000 simultaneous players, even surpassing the activity of Call of Duty. However, <strong>despite this initial success, the PC debut was overshadowed by serious issues with the EA application<\/strong>, which prevented many users from starting the game and generated a flood of complaints on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The EA app decided to stop working at the worst moment<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In light of this situation, Vince Zampella, CEO of Battlefield Studios, joined the criticism directed at the EA app. In an ironic tone, <strong>Zampella expressed his frustration about the problems users are facing: &#8220;I screamed when I saw the EA app, folks. Any suggestions on what I should do?&#8221;<\/strong>, he wrote on his Twitter account, generating quick reactions among players.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Battlefield 6: Official Launch Hype Trailer\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LqWVp3p-FPk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, Zampella had no qualms about admitting that he himself had switched platforms and recommended other players do the same, suggesting they request a refund and purchase the game on Steam. <strong>His honest and direct interaction was well received by the community, which appreciated the transparency of a high executive publicly calling out his own company, Electronic Arts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an exchange with a user, Zampella clarified that it was not about blaming Andrew Wilson, CEO of Electronic Arts, as he was also upset with the situation. <strong>The reactions to Zampella&#8217;s statements have led to questions about whether this will result in an increase in refund requests and a wave of new purchases on Steam<\/strong>. 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The EA app chose not to work at the worst moment In light of this situation, Vince Zampella, CEO of Battlefield Studios, joined the criticism directed at [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9318,"featured_media":349875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1018,1015],"tags":[7200,1536,11145,16132,1500,5534,1078,2074,1056,1415,17104],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6823],"class_list":["post-349863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","category-news","tag-andrew-wilson","tag-app","tag-battlefield-6","tag-battlefield-studios","tag-call-of-duty","tag-ceo","tag-ea","tag-pc","tag-steam","tag-twitter","tag-vince-zampella","content-category-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349863"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349887,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349863\/revisions\/349887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349863"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=349863"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=349863"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=349863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}