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Battlefield V got delayed by a month, it was originally going to launch in October alongside Call of Duty Trash Ops 4 and Red Dead Redemption 2, but with the ongoing controversy and pathetic pre order numbers, EA decided it'd be best to abandon that release date and move to a more comfortable November release, going up against Fallout 76, which ended up being as big a disaster for Bethesda as Battlefield V was for EA, but for different reasons, reasons that I, not being a huge RPG or Fallout guy, don't care as much about. Now you'd think, with the situation looking as bleak as it does, that maybe EA would just keep their heads down and try to get Battlefield V out the door with no further trouble, you'd think that, wouldn't you. The futility of it though was that, whether he really did resign or whether he was forced to, it doesn't matter in the end because the damage was already done, like the trailer, Soderlund's words tore a massive hole in the game's reputation, a hole that would have been hard enough to fix anyway and especially hard for EA, the most hated company in gaming. The pre order numbers being as low as they were could be interpreted in a few ways, but how I and many people saw it was Soderlund's challenge to gamers being accepted people not buying the game because he told them not to, which would go a long way in explaining his suddenly jumping ship and or being tossed overboard by EA, after getting a handsome bonus, that is. That wasn't the only thing Soderlund said however, and I reckon it was the other thing he said that killed Battlefield V, because he also said, "these people who are uneducated," referring to the backlash to the game's historical revisionism, and "either accept it or don't buy the game." Oh yes, he had the balls to call the game's critics stupid and challenge them to not buy the game, a decision that most likely cost him his job as he resigned/got fired a short while later, only a day before news broke that Battlefield V's pre order numbers were disastrously low, two events that happened too close together to not be related. First with DICE dev Alan Kertz claiming that he will be "On the right side of History," and using his daughter to try and emotionally justify his blatant agenda pushing, and then with EA big wig Patrick Soderlund also using his daughter as an emotional excuse for their politicising of the game. But the controversy probably would've died there and wouldn't have killed the game were it not for the subsequent actions of EA and DICE, because rather than just leaving it alone, they just had to put their foot in their mouth, and then again, and again, and again, and again. Their claims of authenticity were swiftly dashed followed the inevitable backlash, with DICE affirming that their priority wasn't authenticity but fun, which contradicts their previous claims but might explain all the weird shit like katanas and metal arms as mere cosmetics, because money and microtransactions and money. This confused and angered a great many people, including myself, because DICE had previously stated their intentions to make an authentic World War II game, only to show off a wet fart of a trailer that impressed nobody and gave a lot of people the impression that their definition of authenticity was actually ideological revisionism.
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This is because the trailer was a confusing, poorly thrown together mess of visuals with ugly colours, action movie violence, terrible editing, and a disabled woman with a cricket bat dying and then coming back to life and killing Germans, oh, and war paint, blue war paint, oh, and Katanas being wielded by British soldiers, and teddy bears. In May, after a bafflingly boring reveal event hosted by Trevor Noah in which DICE claimed that Battlefield V was going to be the most immersive and authentic game they've ever made and that they'd be focusing on the lesser known stories of the War, the world got treated to a reveal trailer that, depending on how optimistic you are, was either very confusing, or the most cancerous example of political pandering and ideological gesturing of the year, or at least that was the case in May, 2018's been a long year. Since it's been a while and this is (hopefully) the final chapter of this sad, sad tale, I reckon a recap is in order.