De Call of Duty-franchise ligt inmiddels in handen bij meerdere developers. Dit om er voor te zorgen dat er elk jaar een nieuw deel in de serie in de winkels komt te liggen. Dice laat weten dat dit niet met Battlefield gaat gebeuren. Volgens Battlefield 4-producent Patrick Bach zorgt Dice liever voor veel DLC na de release van een game dan dat er snel een geheel nieuwe titel gemaakt moet worden.
I think the core Battlefield idea that we’re working on at Dice is… We can’t build a game at Dice every year.
Maybe it could. That’s something that we’ve actually started noticing as well. Maybe it’s a really smart thing to do; maybe it’s the completely wrong thing to do. We can see that some games are actually doing it already, like MMOs. You have some free-to-play games [that] continue on the same platform. So I think it’s more about the audience and getting all the ducks in a row, so to speak.
You saw with Battlefield 3, for instance, it’s not that there’s not an urge for more Battlefield. We [had] 18 months worth of Battlefield [through Premium] and people want more things during that time. Now it’s been almost two years and people feel like they are continuously playing – we still have huge amounts of players playing Battlefield 3. So I think in general, people apparently want Battlefield all year round.
