10 Things EA Wants You To Forget

8. That Battlefield 4 NEVER Became Fully Playable

There's buggy, there's Ubisoft-in-2014 buggy and then there's Battlefield 4-level buggy.

Because m a n, it comes to something when your game - even post-launch and after multiple patches - can't let one multiplayer match go by without a full crash back to dashboard.

Battlefield 4's list of faults felt endless, from sped-up fire rates on weapons breaking matches to falling through the map, certain environmental animations freezing people in place to character models stretching and warping out of control.

EA set up a "tracker" on their website where issues posted would be assigned a "status" from "investigating" to "fixing", though after months of attempts to get everything running smoothly, they inevitably had to move on.

It took another class-action lawsuit to get DICE and EA to apologise for the state of the game, delaying DLC until at least the most crippling bugs was fixed, but this did little to save the product overall.