A federal judge has dismissed a proposed securities fraud class action lawsuit connected to Electronic Arts' bungled rollout of the popular Battlefield 4 video game.

EA and several top executives were sued in December and were accused of duping investors with their public statements and concealing issues with the first-person shooter game. The suit claimed executives were painting too rosy of a picture surrounding what ultimately would be Battlefield 4's disastrous debut on various gaming consoles beginning last October, including the next-generation Xbox One.

But US District Judge Susan Illston of San Francisco said their comments about EA and the first-person shooter game were essentially protected corporate speak.

"The Court agrees with defendants that all of the purported misstatements are inactionable statements of opinion, corporate optimism, or puffery," Illston ruled [PDF] Monday.

Gamers complained that Battlefield 4 crashed, froze, or wouldn't even start. In response, Dice studios, one of EA's video game development centers, announced in December it would cease development on future projects until it had fixed the game's defects—a process that took about three months and sent EA shares down 6 percent in a single day.

In one example, investors challenged a May 7, 2013 statement from Frank D. Gibeau, an EA president, who said that EA was in a "much better state" for the next generation gaming-console transition. Illston said Gibeau's words were "a non-actionable vague expression of corporate optimism and puffery upon which no reasonable investor would rely."