A podcast on gaming news I listen to said pretty much the same thing.
BF4 broke.
BF4 rushed to make a cash grab.
EA person in a press statement says - FULL STOP - on every piece of software development in house until BFbroken4 is fixed.
EZ Stock hits the lowest it has ever been this decade. (in minutes)
- EA press person beat with rubber hose
- Behind the scenes, the little Rat Bastards.... um... EA employees go back to projects they were working on before they were pulled to fix healtcare.go... I mean BFbroken4
(Meanwhile back a DICE) DumjÃâ¬vel is heard all over the shop as the real fix is worked on.
Huh. I certainly don't think that there is grounds for a lawsuit (I'm not a lawyer), but it might be a good thing for game development if there is in that developers may take a little more time instead of rushing things to meet deadlines. I think a good chunk of people's outrage comes from spending $60 + $50 for premium access and not feeling like they got their money's worth so far.
I must say that I've had many fewer issues with BF4 than I ever had with BF3 and BF2 and BFV and BF42. It runs well, there are minimal balance issues, and I am enjoying many of the different modes. I do crash occasionally, but not so much that it stops me from playing.
I think there is grounds for a lawsuit. I think the issue is more with the fact that they supplied a faulty product (similar to a recall), but also continued to sell enhanced services on that faulty product (DLC & Premium). It is one thing to say: "Oops, we delivered too early here is some treats as an apology", but another thing to continue selling other products that are worthless without the broken product.
It seemed to me that this wasn't a lawsuit yet, but an investigation into whether or not they intentionally delivered a faulty product and sold other services based on that product.
I think the threat of investigation for a lawsuit was more than enough to light a fire under their asses to fix the product.