{"id":60986,"date":"2013-12-12T12:29:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T10:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=60986"},"modified":"2013-12-12T12:37:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T10:37:14","slug":"ea-in-legal-trouble-over-buggy-battlefield-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/60986-ea-in-legal-trouble-over-buggy-battlefield-4","title":{"rendered":"EA in legal trouble over buggy Battlefield 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic Arts, publisher of popular game series such as Battlefield, Crysis, Mass Effect, and FIFA, is in hot water over issues that the company&#8217;s biggest studio, DICE, is having with the launch of Battlefield 4.<\/p>\n<p>Launch issues with the game forced DICE to announce that they are planning to hold back on all DLC packs and map additions while they fix game-breaking bugs and issues with cheaters on the networks running rampant. The weeks following the launch saw EA&#8217;s stock value drop by 7.3%, due to the game&#8217;s issues and overall negative coverage in the press.<\/p>\n<p>Now law firm Holzer, Holzer &amp; Fistel is urging shareholders that may have lost money on their investment into the company because of the launch issues to contact them to join a <strong>class action lawsuit against Electronic Arts<\/strong> and its subsidiary studios.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you purchased EA common stock between July 24, 2013 and December 4, 2013 and suffered losses on that investment, you are encouraged to contact Holzer Holzer &amp; Fistel, LLC,\u201d the law office states. \u201cHolzer Holzer &amp; Fistel, LLC is an Atlanta, Georgia law firm that dedicates its practice to vigorous representation of shareholders and investors in litigation nationwide, including shareholder class action and derivative litigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_58841\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Battlefield-42.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58841\" class=\"size-large wp-image-58841\" alt=\"Battlefield 4\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Battlefield-42-600x337.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Battlefield-42-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Battlefield-42-267x150.jpg 267w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Battlefield-42-625x350.jpg 625w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Battlefield-42.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-58841\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Battlefield 4<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In a recent interview with The Guardian on the issues and with EA&#8217;s overall stance in the games industry, Executive vice president of EA Studios Patrick S\u00f6derlund admitted that the firm and its studios could do a lot better with many of its previous and current game launches.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to do a better job of getting games into the market that are as bug-free as possible,&#8221; said S\u00f6derlund. &#8220;Games are becoming more and more complex \u2013 even though we&#8217;ll run a beta and we&#8217;ll do massive amounts of testing, there are certain things, especially in an online-focused environment, that you won&#8217;t catch. I wish I could say that we will, but I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ll ever catch everything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We try and do an update every second day to improve the game experience, and there are patches in the works for the PS3 and Xbox 360,&#8221; S\u00f6derlund adds. &#8220;I bet we&#8217;ll have to do the same thing on the next-gen machines. But our commitment to making the best gameplay experience on a continual basis is there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_60987\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Battlefield-3-has-the-best-gameplay-glitches-by-far.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60987\" class=\"size-large wp-image-60987\" alt=\"Battlefield 3 has the best gameplay glitches by far\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Battlefield-3-has-the-best-gameplay-glitches-by-far-600x336.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Battlefield-3-has-the-best-gameplay-glitches-by-far-600x336.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Battlefield-3-has-the-best-gameplay-glitches-by-far-267x150.jpg 267w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Battlefield-3-has-the-best-gameplay-glitches-by-far-625x350.jpg 625w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Battlefield-3-has-the-best-gameplay-glitches-by-far.jpg 638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-60987\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Battlefield 3 has the best gameplay glitches by far<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first Battlefield game that shipped out with a slightly broken multiplayer on day one. Battlefield 3&#8217;s launch issues continued for well over two months and gamers suffered from issues with their progress in matches being lost, lag due to unoptimised netcode and games being hacked by users who used cheats to get ahead in the rankings.<\/p>\n<p>But it appears that DICE may simply have not done enough testing before the game went gold. The Battlefield 4 open multiplayer beta was launched on 4 October 2013 for players on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 platforms. The open beta closed soon after, however, shutting down on 15 October in time for DICE to ready their servers for launch day, which was taking place nearly two weeks later.<\/p>\n<p>Are you suffering gameplay issues with your copy of Battlefield 4? Do you feel wronged by DICE and EA? Let us know in the comments below and in our forums.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a title=\"EA Faces Potential Lawsuit Over Battlefield 4\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ubergizmo.com\" target=\"_blank\">Uber Gizmo<\/a>, <a title=\"Battlefield, Mirrors Edge, Star Wars: Patrick S\u00f6derlund on EA Dice\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Gaming news:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/60985-sa-pirate-arrested-for-uploading-first-case.html\">SA pirate arrested for uploading: first case<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/60978-fallout-4-is-in-development-leaked-documents-confirm.html\">Fallout 4 is in development, leaked documents confirm<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/60929-game-publishers-that-dont-support-youtube-monetisation.html\">Game publishers that don\u2019t support YouTube monetisation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/60915-youtube-policy-destroying-the-lets-play-community.html\">YouTube policy destroying the \u201cLet\u2019s Play\u201d community?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic Arts be facing investor legal action because of DICE&#8217;s Battlefield 4 mistakes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":53639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,5693,4143,8600,709,175,813,21],"class_list":["post-60986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-battlefield-3","tag-battlefield-4","tag-bf3","tag-bf4","tag-dice","tag-ea","tag-electronic-arts","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60988,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60986\/revisions\/60988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}