10 Video Games With MASSIVE Potential (That Still Failed)

6. Battlefield 2042

Despite its pedigree, Battlefield 2042 managed to let down critics and fans by launching with an unbelievable amount of bugs and no real in-game scoreboard.

It’s worth highlighting this game came out in November of last year and it only just got a proper scoreboard four months later.

2042 was supposed to offer up a multiplayer-only experience with incredible, futuristic large-scale conflicts in an all-out warfare arena providing seemingly limitless possibilities to engage. Add onto that Battlefield’s popular destructive environments and the stage seemed very much set for another impressive Battlefield offering. Or at least, one as good as the mildly disappointing Battlefield V.

Instead, the thing arrived so broken that even the most diehard of Battlefield fans found themselves nope'ing out.

To call this one as broken as a way-too-ambitious solo indie venture would actually be an insult to the solo indie venture. While it was suggested working from home during the pandemic contributed to the less than stellar performance of what should have been another slam dunk from the seasoned studio, Battlefield 2042 hit another level of bad thanks to its removal of classes, rampant glitches, and unappealing Specialist system. For a full price game, audiences were even less generous than critics, taking issue with the lack of features and fundamental changes to certain gameplay mechanics that dragged the experience down.

Also all the bugs. The many, many bugs.

In January of this year DICE removed the fan-favourite Rush mode which upset players even more and in February a 200,000 signature strong petition called for all buyers to have their money refunded, citing the game as unplayable. DICE continues to promise they’ll get the game into a better state but with daily players having fallen to about 2000 a day on Steam it seems like its audience has quite fairly given up on the game.