Battlefield 1 is going through a couple of ups and downs and unfortunately, with the issues it's currently facing, there are more downs. And to think, the first-person shooter is barely a month from its release.
Battlefield 1 has had praises for its single player campaign. ABC even mentioned that its single player has good game war stories that take players in an emotional ride back to the depressing era of World War 1. However, these emotionally-driven series of stories were not able to save the game from outraged players demanding refunds.
Battlefield 1 Hashtag
First was the so-called insensitive Twitter hashtag #justWWIthings which the Battlefield 1 social media team tried to endorse. Instead of bringing to memory the brave soldiers during that era, one of the pictures posted showed a soldier with a flamethrower captioned, "When you're too hot for the club." Gamers were outraged that the hashtag seemed to disrespect the millions of lives lost during that period. In the end, EA released an official apology.
Battlefield 1 Server Problems
Next, Battlefield 1 suffered bad servers. In fact, during the weekend, the FPS game's servers went offline several times that not only caused issues for Battlefield 1 players but as well for Titanfall 2 and FIFA 17 gamers.
Though Battlefield 1 server problems may have been due to an October DDoS attack which caused havoc to most of the web, still, the game's issues continued. Until the unhappy players decided to demand for refunds.
The server issues affected EA games players particularly those in the UK and North America. EA Support's Twitter even confirmed the outages - not being able to log in to EA Access and Origin (from the last 20 plus hours). After a day or so, EA Support then said that they have resolved the issues.
We have resolved issues with logging into Origin and EA Access, we apologize for the inconvenience. Reach out if you're still having issues.
— EA Support (@AskEASupport) November 3, 2016
Battlefield 1 Refunds
Still, fans demanded refunds saying that the game's servers were already tested this year when the Battlefield 1 beta was one of the victims of the DDoS attack. They further argued that EA and Dice should have better prepared and should have taken extra efforts in making sure that outrages wouldn't happen.
One of the disgruntled fans even reacted to the news that Battlefield 1 is planning to introduce hardcore servers, saying, "How can EA and DICE promote and monetize servers that don't work as they're supposed to?"
For now, let's just cross our fingers to hoping that EA and DICE will get their Battlefield 1 servers up and running without further bumps in the road.
