Tom's Hardware Guide has launched a vicious attack on EA Games and DICE, the folk that brought us Battlefield 2. It is also an attack on the marketing of games and the strict and sometimes unrealistic deadlines put in place. As we all know, EA released a patch for Battlefield 2 that was supposed to fix problems that were inherent from the game's launch. Sadly the patch did not fix anything and actually caused memory leaks with sustained play.Fans of the franchise were waiting a long time for the sequel and this sort of bungling has not revealed the marketing behind the game as competent in any way shape or form.
The Battlefield series is the best example of market pressures and complete and utter incompetence combining to completely and utterly bugger up a game. When the original Battlefield 1942 arrived, it was as buggy as a derelict house - the netcode was unstable, and the game was prone to crashing. All kinds of actual gameplay imbalances and quirks existed that took the better part of two years to completely fix and bring the game to what it should have been on the day of release.
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