the problem with battlefield v(agina)

not too long ago when the battlefield 5 trailer dropper, there was some outrage from the community. when the bf5 reveal came around and you see red haired handicapped british women running around quickscoping guys and wielding a cricket bat, that is pretty far from historically accurate. after this they said bf5 was their take on ww2. what? ww2 is history, not up for interpretation. there were really really very few women who served in ww2 and i'm pretty fucking sure, none of them had prosthetic limbs. if that wasn't bad enough, the head of dice, patrick sunderland, directly told battlefield fans not to buy the game if they have a problem with women in a ww2 game. right, that seems smart.

after the community was told to go screw themselves, the obvious happened and news dropped that pre-order numbers for bf5 were looking terrible. ea decided to delay the game to get it out of the black ops 4 and red dead redemption 2 release window. but of course that wasn't what they said the reason was.

now the beta for the game has dropped and the general reception is a big ol' ...meh.

the beta is boring af and they changed and broke features in the game that should not have been messed with. some players also discovered that on the pc version of bf5, some phrases and words were being censored in text chat. thats not anything new, you know censoring swear words and such. but bf5 censors the phrase "white man". wtf ea and dice? if you weren't getting enough crap for all your sjw bullshit already, now you go and do this. honestly, as a white male who does not want some political propaganda & sjw influence in my games i'm not feeling very welcome in bf5.

for me, there is another issue with bf5. i played cod ww2 for a while earlier this year, grinded it, and got bored with it very quickly. so at the moment i'm over the ww2 setting. another game so soon after cod ww2 that has m1 garands, stg44s and kar98ks does not interest me. there won't be anything new or interesting about the maps, weapons, gear or uniforms in bf5 that you haven't seen 20 times before.

in short, no thanks, i'll pass