Duuude that article is from may, we living in August now, check out vgchartz pre-orders numbers. Black ops 4 is down massively, YES!

Don't attack your customer, how hard is it

Battlefield games were always the more realistic out of the shooters. This battlefield has british troops with katanas and women with missing limbs/replaced by cybernetic limb fighting in the game.. When fans raised concerns about this stuff they were called uneducated and mischaracterized as not wanting any women in games. The dev said that if we didn't like this stuff then don't buy the game. It's not surprising that it's not getting no where near the preorders they want. Go woke, go broke.

They really messed up with this games initial reveal and then didn't they tell the fans straight out to ''dont like it dont buy it''?

Yes, and that guy actually announced he was departing EA the day before the report about disappointing pre-orders came out.

While the "women" controversy definitely had some effect on pre-orders, it has more to do with the culmination of other things. First, people lost their confidence in EA, especially after last year's Battlefront fisco. Unless we have it on paper, at the moment, no one really knows what kind of paid BS they're gonna push this year. Second, we haven't seen BFV open beta yet. Third, we already had WW2 FPS game last year. Fourth, when the producer of the game tells you that if you don't like the game, don't buy it, you will have quite a lot of customers who will do just that, purely because of this stupid comment.
If EA guarantees no pay to win in this installment, the open beta turns out to be very good AND the game offers something fundamentally different from last CoD, we will see a different picture in terms of figures. At the moment people take "wait and see" approach, including me.

Exactly. What annoyed people generally is that they wanted a authentic depiction of WW2. They could have easily added in French resistance for example and the voices of complaint would have just been the idiots.... in other words very low.

It didnt help that there were a lot of people who drowned out this argument using the sexist card, which was a shame. People just want games like this to be authentic and as realistic as possible.

I'm in the same boat. I'm in no way offended by the content. I just don't think the game looks interesting and fun to play.

Yeah. I can't believe they didn't make Battlefield Vietnam this year and then Battlefield 2 (WW2) in a couple of years.

I guess this is just EA being EA (highly investor-driven and out of touch).

Of course some Battlefield fans seeking realism are turned off by the Fortnite-esque style, gameplay and story but I think you're right that EA's bad reputation coupled with WW-game saturation and BFV's limited public showings are more to blame for the low amount of preorders.

Cause and effect. The launch window and content will have an impact. The "women in the game" probably has nothing to do with the sales.

RDR2 is going to make it very difficult for any game to make money in Oct...

Add into that the fact that people are a bit bored of the whole microtransactions thing I'm not surprised. I hope COD falls to a similar fate to be fair, what with no single player... but they'll probably still make a bucket load.