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Battlefield 6 is Undergoing Franchise's Biggest Playtests Ever to Prevent Another Disastrous Launch (insider-gaming.com)
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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's cute, but if you don't do shit with the feedback, then it doesn't really matter how big the playtest is, eh?

Sources say that playtests with external players are happening much more frequently than in past installments, and the amount of data and feedback collected is the most the franchise has seen in its history. From small feedback sessions to large-scale player tests, Battlefield is now taking the much-needed “player first” approach.

Alright, let's wait for more info other than "sources say", then.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is games journalism, so expect the "sources" to be EA press releases and a conference call with Marketing.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

As an ex-journo, ouch.

But yeah, investigative journalism is dead. A press release is a valid source but it is the journalists duty to sift through the BS and corpospeak and convey what it actually means.

There's too many sites that just paste a press release on a blog page and call it an article, but let me stop there before I digress even more!