Battlefield 4 – and you thought you were upset at its performance

A class-action lawsuit has been initiated against EA for the current state of Battlefield 4, as it emerges execs dumped their shares before its release.

It’s now increasingly common for gamers to start class-action lawsuits against publishers whose games don’t work as promised but EA is now under fire from two separate sets of investors, upset at what they call ‘materially false and misleading statements’ about the game.

The complaints are from people that bought stock in EA between July and December this year, under the assumption that Battlefield 4 would work as promised and be a major hit. Something that EA tried to convince them of via an October earnings forecast.



That caused stock prices to rise, which then promptly sank again once the game was released and the extent of its online problems became evident.


What’s got investors especially angry is that a number of senior EA execs sold thousands of shares in the company just prior to the game’s release, almost as if they knew what was going to happen to the share price once people found out the game didn’t work properly…

‘We believe these claims are meritless. We intend to aggressively defend ourselves, and we’re confident the court will dismiss the complaint in due course,’ an EA spokesperson told website GameSpot.

Not that any of this is likely to help gamers, who just want to play the game properly, as all the investors want is the money back they lost from their stock purchases.

In the meantime developer DICE has said that it’s put all future projects on hold as it tries to fix the issues, with a series of patches having been released during the last few weeks.

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