{"id":66007,"date":"2014-06-17T09:55:09","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T07:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=66007"},"modified":"2014-06-17T09:57:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T07:57:22","slug":"battlefield-will-not-be-an-annual-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/66007-battlefield-will-not-be-an-annual-title","title":{"rendered":"Battlefield will not be an annual title"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the arrival of Battlefield Hardline<\/a>\u00a0due less than a year after the release of Battlefield 4<\/a>, one might expect the FPS series to get a new edition every year going forward.<\/p>\n

EA has said this won’t necessarily be the case, and Hardline was not the start of an “annualisation” of Battlefield.<\/p>\n

“It doesn’t necessarily mean that we need to annualise Battlefield and that’s the way it’s going to be forever and ever. I understand that some people may look at it that way,” said EA Studios executive vice president Patrick S\u00f6derlund.<\/p>\n

S\u00f6derlund said a “cops and robbers” Battlefield game had been in the works since 2001 – then titled Urban Combat – and a meeting between members of Dice and Visceral three years ago in Spain got the ball rolling on the project.<\/p>\n

S\u00f6derlund added that the work Dice is undertaking to fix issues with Battlefield 4<\/a>\u00a0will benefit the Hardline multiplayer experience.<\/p>\n

“We still have things to make it better. Everything that we’ve fixed with [Battlefield 4] will go into Hardline. Once people get their hands on the netcode patch<\/a>, which I think is profound, that will take care of a lot of the complaints around Battlefield… and how responsive the game is.”<\/p>\n