A game no one wanted is not doing too well? I'm very, very shocked!

I wonder if Jim Sterling's theory on Visceral games being next on the chopping block if BF:H didn't do as well as expected will become true. Now of course, we don't know how well it actually did nor do we know what EA's expectation for the game is but the theory is interesting none the less!

For a side game developed by a different studio and mostly just a rehash... that doesn't seem terrible to me.

Its not like EA gave this the push of a numbered BF game.

I think Visceral has two teams. One is working on Star Wars, which I'm assuming is the better team, and the one that was working on BF:H. So I doubt they're on the chopping block even if Battlefield does poorly.

When you people will learn? Suckers from EA will ruing every franchisee and every development studio.

This. Obviously it's just a cheap spin-off that's only a bit more than an expansion.

It's a battlefield game about police, made by visceral for some reason. I'm very surprised some people didn't realize it was going to turn out bad and not sell nearly as well as other entries in the Battlefield series.

No one was looking forward to it. I only got it because I have a thing for cheesy cop shows.

I think it's okay for a spin off, their focus is really on Star Wars Battlefront!!!

Look out for the reveal this week

As for Visceral, I think it depends how they're doing in their own Star Wars game. But you'd hope they'd be given time, since as far as I can tell, it's not a bad game so much as mediocre. The Dead Space games did well in general, so maybe they'll be given a bit of leeway

Bare in mind they are located in Redwood City, which is EA headquaters, I doubt they'd destroy the brand though they might just decrease the studio's scale

But frankly, I just really want lots of high quality Star Wars games

Hopefully they understand the problem is that the BF name was tacked on to a product that doesn't deliver the BF standard, going all the way back to BF 1942 : big battles with a ton of players on big maps. Yes, more recent games have also had smaller battles, but it's also always been about warfare.

A cops and robbers game more focused on tight spaces was never going to appeal to the majority of BF fans anyway. As a long-time BF fan from the first game, I can say that I was certainly never interested, but it doesn't mean for a second that I've written off BF or even the developer. If a publisher has you do (and name) something that may not make a ton of sense, well, you do your job. AFAIK, there are a good number of people who DO enjoy Hardline, and good for them.

Previously the spinoffs were limited to some FTP games and the Bad Company spinoffs. But generally even those had pretty large maps and a warfare environment.

So let's wait and see how BF5 does before any tombstones are minted.