Depending on who you listen to and who you believe, either a "skeleton crew" is left working on Battlefield 2042 development, or the entire team at DICE is still working on the game.
Back in April, the idea that there were only a handful of people left working on Battlefield 2042 started to circulate online. When asked how many people were still working on 2042, DICE game designer Frederik Drabert said that "almost everyone" was still working on the game.
Today, this very same debate fired up again. According to Giant Bomb's Jeff Grubb, DICE only has a "skeleton crew" still working on 2042 development. Grubb says that this skeleton crew is working to "meet the barebones of their obligations." He even described the situation as being an "abandon ship time" at DICE and EA.
"This game is basically down to a skeleton crew. It’s down to like the bare bones and those people are specifically just working on the promised additional seasons that the game needs to meet the requirements of the high-end version that it sold.
"The skeleton crew is working to pump that stuff out the fastest and the cheapest it possibly can.
"They’re doing this to move everyone on to the new Battlefield as fast as possible. The real core crew of Battlefield developers are already working on that."
"The skeleton crew is working to pump that stuff out the fastest and the cheapest it possibly can.
"They’re doing this to move everyone on to the new Battlefield as fast as possible. The real core crew of Battlefield developers are already working on that."
"This is untrue. There is a significant team across studios focused on evolving and improving the Battlefield 2042 experience for our players, and at the heart of that is our team at DICE. We are committed to the future of Battlefield 2042 and our areas of focus for the game, based on what we have heard from our players, was laid out in our recent Development Update that you can view here: https://www.ea.com/games/battlefield...pdate-may-2022 "
There are four seasons of live service content that were promised for Battlefield 2042 that will be rolled out over the course of around a year. The first season, Zero Hour, will be released on June 9.
Also, have fun now that you've reinstalled it. Enjoy the fruits of their hard-earned labor.