Battlefield 6: 10 Fatal Mistakes DICE Must Avoid

10. Pandering To The Competition

Call of Duty has seen something of a resurgence in popularity in the last couple of years, following the release of Modern Warfare back in 2019.

And while it must be tempting for DICE (and EA) to see the dollar signs and want to follow suit, nothing would be more harmful to the Battlefield franchise.

What makes Call of Duty great is not what makes Battlefield great. The same can be said for Destiny, or DOOM, or Overwatch, or any similar game that has you blasting the heads off pixelated army vets and other more colourful characters.

While other shooters certainly offer a degree of strategy and teamwork on massive, open maps, none do it as well as the Battlefield franchise. So it would be criminal for DICE to abandon these core tenets in favour of the smaller, more streamlined gameplay of something like Call of Duty.

Undoubtedly it's tempting to look at the recent successes of adjacent franchises and to try and replicate that formula, but for Battlefield to stay relevant, Battlefield 6 would do well to go back to its roots and highlight what set the franchise apart to begin with.