Bofferbrauer2 said:
That would mean only starting working on it right now, meaning they only would have about 5 months, including creating the necessary concepts, maps, characters, character design, balancing, et cetera, and that's just too short to do it all. They must have started it some months before, probably even in last year after the release of Fortnite on consoles in September. It's quite possible that they where working on both the BR and the Storymode, only to find out one of both needed to be cut to finish the game in time, and BF V's BR announcement made for the perfect time to announce the cut on their side basically by making it look like an answer to it. With Battle Royale having become so huge in such a short time, it sounds to me more like a bet from Activision Blizzard that they would gain more (DLC paying) players with the Battle Royale than losing for not having a story campaign or any other singleplayer mode. |
Odds are they made the decision much earlier than just recently, yes. You could be right. I myself think Activision is playing catch up or doing what they feel necessary to hold off the BF franchise as much as possible. COD still rules the roost, but you give somebody and inch and they will try and take a mile. Even if is means scrambling to get battle royale ready enough for launch, since releasing it broken seems to be the norm, I don't see Activision giving much breathing room to BFV. With the popularity of battle royale, an entire year on BFV before a COD game see's it, would be PR hell for Activision at the very least.