10 Video Games You Know Are Bad For You (But You Play Anyway)
2. Battlefield 2042
Battlefield 2042 was released in November 2021 as the most ambitious title in the series, stripping away its traditional single-player campaign in favour of cross-platform 128-player online multiplayer matches.
The game's development became infamously troublesome for DICE and EA, but that didn't stop the pair from releasing the game with an abundance of technical issues that players had to endure.
Everything from hit-reg frustrations, matchmaking bugs to an overall lack of content combined to give Battlefield 2042 a fairly lukewarm and mixed reception when it first hit the shelves.
Nevertheless, being the latest entry in the series, players were stuck with playing a game that is still today in need of quite major surgery in some areas, with Battlefield 2042 averaging over 30,000 concurrent players at the time of writing.
Sadly for Battlefield fans, it doesn't look like the game is in EA's sights as a priority to continue working on. Despite the recent introduction of 64-player modes for a limited time, EA have already announced that they are going to be looking to change tacts when it comes to the Battlefield formula, and have already begun work on other projects, leaving 2042 behind in the dust.