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Five DLC packs were announced before the game was even released, and after a few seconds players noticed it was released in more pieces than a fragmentation grenade. And was about as fun to experience. More than a month after release it still suffered more crashes than Carmageddon. The next year they were still promising it wouldn't happen, but in true EA style they phrased it as apologizing for trying to be too awesome. If a real soldier was launched into combat in the same condition as Battlefield 4, they'd be missing their gun, their boots, and at least 10 feet of their small intestines through a ragged hole in their gut. Except a disemboweled soldier at least used to have all its bits in the right place. And could still run better than this game. And if EA was conducting the surgery they'd offer seven different patterns of bandage while forgetting to actually close the wound.

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Their DLC dickery pissed all over the wounds by extorting another $50 with the online multiplayer Ultimate Shortcut Bundle. This lets players in a multiplayer game straight-up buy better weapons. You could unlock them yourself in an entertaining, logical progression of rewards, or at least that'd be what you would be doing if a 12-year-old with his parent's credit card wasn't shredding you with top-tier weaponry. And if it didn't take days to achieve each little thing in a blatant case of unlock inflation.