Message to the PC Gamers Following BF1943 Development

[Spawndemon]

DICE's very own Gordon Van Dyke has personally addressed the PC community today regarding the recent developments surrounding Battlefield 1943. Here's what he had to say:

Dear PC Gamer(s),

I know you might feel disappointed about the PC release being in September rather than June, but you should be very happy to know this is to give us the proper development time to create a proper PC version of Battlefield 1943 and not a console port. To the contrary of some less informed fans out there this is in no means an intentional ploy to punish our PC fans. And is in fact quite the opposite, we want to make the best damn PC version we can for our PC fans!

Not to bore your eyes out with endless text about the how's and do's I will say to make this a proper PC version we need a completed core game to develop over and remember we already released Battlefield Bad Company with the Frostbite Engine on the consoles, so this will be first PC game ever released using Frostbite! PCs are an open platform requiring additional features, support, technical consideration, and can't just be thrown out there using copy/paste. We have thought very carefully about this decision and in the long run felt it was the right choice even though we knew we'd catch some flak for it, but we feel once you play the first Frostbite PC game ever from DICE you'll see why we put this extra time and care in on the development making all right again in the universe. I hope this helps clear things up better and answers your concern(s).

You can find the original post he made over on the EA forums.

[=98=]

Re: Message to the PC Gamers Following BF1943 Development

Good news if you ask Alex.

[iQue]

Re: Message to the PC Gamers Following BF1943 Development

Yeh, but I kind of already knew this. Hopefully they'll do a good job with it.

[NGRU-Mobious]

Re: Message to the PC Gamers Following BF1943 Development

This is GREAT news!

Sucks to have to wait, but it'll be worth every second! (hopefully)

[Basil.]

Re: Message to the PC Gamers Following BF1943 Development

I think this is the right move by Dice. I would rather wait then have a bad game. Let the do it right and we should have a pretty good game and not some pos port.

[BIFF EXPLODER]

Re: Message to the PC Gamers Following BF1943 Development

I think this is the right move by Dice. I would rather wait then have a bad game. Let the do it right and we should have a pretty good game and not some pos port.

exactly what i was thinking.

ports have a way of going horribly wrong, still having nightmares about GTA4 :cry:

[Leopardi]

Re: Message to the PC Gamers Following BF1943 Development

I would have been dissapointed if it was released in June.

[WolfAlmighty]

Re: Message to the PC Gamers Following BF1943 Development

Hmm...sounds promising. I wonder what they'll end up doing differently for the PC that they don't for consoles (aside from keyboard/mouse control, obviously). Might have to give this one a go afterall.

[Elxx]

Re: Message to the PC Gamers Following BF1943 Development

Yay and stuff, but it's increasingly starting to seem like Battlefield is now a franchise that focuses on consoles first with PC ports later. Same thing happened to GTA with the advent of GTA3 (whoa, 3...spooky). Just like Rockstar, DICE will do a good job with the PC ports at first but they'll soon realize that consoles are where the money's at and get increasingly lazy. And look where we are now with the awful GTA4 PC port.

Of course, that's just my very pessimistic theory. I hope it's wrong. And I'm still excited about BF1943, this will be one of the good ones since they are still putting effort into the PC por...err...version :)

[Dangerdog]

Re: Message to the PC Gamers Following BF1943 Development

September?

Yeah, but which year?

[[ptg]chef_uk]

Re: Message to the PC Gamers Following BF1943 Development

I think the HAWX multi release has proved PC version of games should not be released at the same time as the console. Yes there are benefits for them in sales but that isn't the only reason for the delay. The BF series isn't just an FPS game so it is much more complicated to code than say the COD series. The number of controllers used in a BF game just adds to the amount of work in coding the game.

The best way to look at the release is this, 1943 is scheduled for September but console peeps get a rushed version early to coincide with the summer holidays I would imagine PC gamers will get either a demo or beta to play with before hand though.

[ebevan_91]

Re: Message to the PC Gamers Following BF1943 Development

I think this is the right move by Dice. I would rather wait then have a bad game. Let the do it right and we should have a pretty good game and not some pos port.

We've been waiting since 2006.

[jesus]

Re: Message to the PC Gamers Following BF1943 Development

I REALLY don't mind waiting for a superior version.

[rugerspur]

Re: Message to the PC Gamers Following BF1943 Development

September?

Yeah, but which year?

lmao!! its pc version so you know it wont be untill november at the earliest(hopefully 2009)

[Basil.]

Re: Message to the PC Gamers Following BF1943 Development

We've been waiting since 2006.

I just want them to do it right and don't mind waiting a little bit.

I don't want a new bf game every year like cod is doing. It going to get old fast and kill the game.