By Zaid at Thursday, December 05, 2013 10:59:00 AM





Battlefield 4 received a lot of praise upon it's released a few weeks ago, praise that has unfortunately been undone thanks to the games persistent technical failings.





Players across all platforms - consoles and PC's - have been experiencing corrupted saves games, loss of multiplayer progress and numerous crashes, among others. The game's new expansion pack, China Rising , became available Tuesday and with it now out the way, EA has promised that the development team will devote all its efforts solely to squashing the game's many bugs.





Speaking to Gamesbeat , an EA spokesperson made the following statement regarding the games issues and the way forward:





“First, we want to thank the fans out there that are playing and supporting us with Battlefield 4. We know we still have a ways to go with fixing the game – it is absolutely our No. 1 priority. The team at DICE is working nonstop to update the game. Since the Battlefield 4: China Rising expansion pack was already in the final stages of development by the time issues began with Battlefield 4, we decided to fulfill our promise to deliver it this week, but we’re not moving on to future projects or expansions until we sort out all the issues with Battlefield 4. We know many of our players are frustrated, and we feel their pain. We will not stop until this is right.”









While that's laudable EA wanted to "fulfill [their] promise to deliver it this week" , most gamers would have preferred that EA fulfill their promise to deliver a video game that actually worked. Had EA performed more thorough quality control testing, rather than release a clearly broken game, we wouldn't need to deal with a fix in the first place.

I mentioned in an article from earlier in the week that his phenomenon is becoming more and more common. Batman: Arkham Origin's is another example of a game with readily apparent problems that still managed to find its way on retail shelves and it's not the only one. I just don't understand how these games get released in the first place, when the technical failing are obvious.

The games development team, DICE, will keep players informed about their patching progress on the game's official forums which you can reach here.





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