Battlefield 1943 and Bad Company 2: Onslaught canceled on PC

by Alexander Sliwinski on Feb 3rd 2011 11:06AM

Battlefield 1943 for PC is not going to happen. Posting on the official Battlefield blog, Karl Magnus Troedsson, general manager of DICE, confirmed that both 1943 and Onslaught, a co-op add-on for Battlefield: Bad Company 2, have been "officially canceled." He states that the team is focusing all energy on Battlefield 3 in order to make it "the best Battlefield game ever" and "the biggest launch in DICE's history." (Good luck getting into a game during the first three days!)

Battlefield 1943's delayed trek to PC had become hopeless in recent months, though company reps believed it was still set to deploy at some point when we followed up last summer. The downloadable experiment has been a resounding success on consoles, netting $16 million for Electronic Arts.

Source: DICE - Battlefield blog

Tags: Battlefield-1943, Battlefield-3, battlefield-bad-company-2, Battlefield-XBLA, DICE, EA, Electronic-Arts, pc

Reader Comments (49)

It is pretty funny when you look back at all the times they gave us a half-hearted reminder that the game was still coming along, even a good thousand months after the console releases. By "funny" I might have meant "hate-inducing." EA, if you didn't give a damn about PC owners, you could've just, you know, told us when you found this out... the breakup is easier to deal with that way.

@darkinchworm

Not trying to be facetious, but were that many PC gamers really looking forward to Onslaught and 1943??

@Omnistatic Hell, I honestly don't know. And having purchased the 360 version on sale, I can comfortably live without it. My main point of contention is the "sure we'll release that... I think... if we have nothing better to do... oh wait nevermind lol" attitude

@darkinchworm:

i suppose you have a point, my point is: Is upsetting the few people waiting for these two ports worth it for the benefit of Battlefield 3?

and to which I reply a resounding YES.

don't get it twisted, i'm a long time PC gamer, BF fan, and feel bad for those that were looking forward to that experience. But BF3 is something I have been waiting for since the release of BF2, and I believe there are many more out there hoping that it will be a return to roots so to speak, after the detours through Bad Company *thumbs up* and Heroes *shudder*

I'm petty sure any long time fan of the series will forgive DICE as long as the final product meets and exceeds their expectations... (unlike Onslaught and 1943 for me)

@Omnistatic
I agree with you. It's a loss, but no big deal. BF1943 was only an update with three maps, and if it means we _honestly_ will get a better experience with BF3, then so be it.

Awwwwwwwww, that sucks but YEAAH for BF3!!!

I don't understand EA. We all loved 1943 on consoles, it made millions of dollars.... so you don't release any more maps, don't support it on PC (battlefields home), and tease us for over a year before crushing our dreams. GAH

At least release BBC2: Vietnam as standalone DLC! I don't have BBC2 anymore and want to play..

@shabby329 exactly my thoughts. They keep talking about how much of a success it was, but it was abandoned as a product pretty early on.

@shabby329 You don't have a pc copy of a game? Did you trade it in? O_o. Guess you coulda lost it or gave it away. But, I think that last sentence might be indicative of the troubles publishers have with pc. On topic, did any of us really expect them to release this two years after the fact? I think it is a shame though and would have bought it again.

@shabby329 BC2 was $7.50 during the Steam sale...

@The Wicker Man I don't have a PC that can run BFBC2 sadly (3 year old laptop). I played it originally on 360 because I got it from gamefly. I would happily buy the vietnam expansion as a standalone product for $20 though

@shabby329

So your computer can't play BC2, but you want to play an expansion for the game that utilises the same engine and attributes.

I see what you did there.

@This Little Man Says His Name Is Ha i assume that if vietnam is released as standalone DLC then it will be available on 360. Sorry i'm confusing, i know this is a post about the PC versions of battlefield but i decided to let out all my rage in one post. let the poison out!

Unfortunate.

Onslaught could've been so much better if there were an AI director a la L4D...

or even a survival mode where you need to survive wave after wave of reinforcements.

1943.. meh, PC users aren't missing a lot if they've already played 1942. I wasn't too impressed with 1943, as it includes my least favorite maps: Wake Island, Coral Sea and Guadal Canal....

@Omnistatic

All 3 of those maps were scaled wayyyy down too! I know why they had to do that, but man, I loved those maps with 64 players!

@Aquaryon

yea, it's probably the lack of 64 players that prevented them from releasing some of the other maps: El Alamien, Stalingrad, ect... some of them were quite large.

Anyways, my dream game of BF3 is including the best maps from ALL of the BF games till now...

I'm assuming Joystiq meant finding a multiplayer game online.

I mean being able to connect to a multiplayer game online.

Didn't even realize there was a BF3 in dev. I'm also curious at this point what more they can do to the series besides give it a graphical facelift, add more maps, and maaaybe integrate perks.

@Crayola Q Pants ESQ
this is a true sequel to Battlefield 2. this is not a sequel to Bad Company. So they have a lot they can do. they can go back to the formula that made the originals so fun (some of it is there in BC).

@LexStewther
Yeah I get that this isn't a sequel to BC (never played any of them). I'm still just not sure how you can improve on Battlefield outside of a cosmetic sense, since as you said, the original ones were already so fun.

Then again, I didn't really think they could make Rock Band 3 be much more of a change than Rock Band 2, but they proved me wrong there.

@Crayola Q Pants ESQ

That's never stopped CoD from selling.

@Gwnalle Yup, you'll find plenty in stores. It's getting the servers right through the first week that sucks. That's why I usually finish SP before even thinking about jumping online. In 1943's case, the tutorial helped me fly before I ever got into a game.

It's cool, EA's making it abundantly clear they don't want my money anyways.

Just need some Crysis 2 and Homefront love for my mouse and keyboard.

@requisite0 Hint: Buying one of those products will still give EA money

I don’t think he meant that the way you two interweb smarty pantz took it. I think he meant EA has caught the Bethesda Bug. It is the disease that makes a developer (and now publishers as well) not want to make as much money as they can. For example, they could continue making Fallout and Oblivion DLC up until Skyrim and I would still buy it.

@The Wicker Man It's open to interpretation, and neither you nor I can confirm what he meant currently; because of that, I took a very neutral stance in my joke and did not elevate it to "internet smarty pantz" level, Mr. Condescending.

@darkinchworm I hate when I write dumb shit like "very neutral"

EA, you are losing a lot of good will you gained back in the last few years, with the incredibly shitty practices you guys have been falling into recently. Go to hell EA.

@SpanWolf Hey, hey! Don't be mean! Cause wherever you go, there you are. But I really do think you are way out of line on this. I have never been a supporter of EA until the past few years. They really have done a good job turning it around. This news still sucks though, but it is not Acti-Evil yet. I think someones mouth wrote development cheques their budget couldn't cash. It is always better to only confirm release when it is for sure.

@The Wicker Man It's not just this, like I said, they have been pulling a lot of crap recently. A lot, and it's just getting worse and worse bit by bit.

@SpanWolf

what's this "lot of crap" you speak of?

maybe i'm out of the loop, but seems to me EA is doing pretty good.

@Omnistatic Well besides spending a year continuously promising a release only to delay and then ultimately cancel it, as well as not offering content to PC users, there is the online pass thing they started. The whole debacle with the new Hot Pursuit game that was so bad that they are actually offering refunds to people. Promised the game would support 3D and then never delivered on it. I asked for a partial refund instead of a full refund myself, because I own a 3D TV and I bought the game to have a good 3D racer, but still want to keep it even though they lied. Charging more for the PC version of Dead Space 2 and not only offering less content, removing content from the PC version, and not offering DLC. Then there is a growing trend of not offering DLC to PC owners of their multiplatform games. The growing practice of releasing time lock demos that you can only download and play before the game comes out and lock up when the game does come out, sometimes even before then. It makes no sense.

There is more, but that was just off the top of my head.

@SpanWolf

So you're complaining about 'project $10', then going on to complain about them not releasing DLC.

How exactly is 'project $10' a bad thing. It doesn't restrict you from doing anything. If you buy the game new you get a bit of extra bonuses for free. If you buy it second hand and choose not to buy the extra for $10 you get just as good a game without the little bit of extras which make no difference.

@This Little Man Says His Name Is
"So you're complaining about 'project $10', then going on to complain about them not releasing DLC."

What does one have to do with the other?

Not to mention that PTD started as a way to give a little bonus content to new buyers to incentive them to buy new instead of used, and has turned into pure screw used owners by making them buy a pass to play online. It's not about getting more content, it's about used buyers not even having access to basic game features unless they pony up an extra ten bucks. Sounds like it restricts you from a whole lot now doesn't it?

And there is almost never a good or acceptable excuse for releasing DLC on all platforms but one. The two exceptions are timed exclusives, or if something would cost WAY to much to port.

Well that sucks!

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I'm fine with them dedicating all those resources into making BF3 the best one yet. I'd rather have one completely amazing game than three "meh" ones.

Oh, and Jets!

i hope bf3 has mod support. bc2 is great but mods have always extended the life of games for me for yearssss. most notably half life, bf1942, and bf2.

Dice needs to realize they need to bring back the medic class, support machine gunnners should throw ammo...medics need to be back with a assult rifle and be faster then everyone else...please and thank you

Hopefully they can remove the bugs that are in the code from BF1942 that are still in every BF game. Still I owned and played them all. BF2 is still my favourite PC game. BF3 better have a commander option.

WOw...... its got to bad if EA is not willing to give some of its cocaine fund to go ahead and finish the games it has half finished....

If there was ever an award for 'Missed Opportunity' it would certainly go to Battlefield 1943. People were begging for additional maps for the longest time

Battlefield 1943 wasn't canceled for PC it cam out last year...

(Good luck getting into a game during the first three days!)

sorry to hijack but, the fact that they still cant figure this out on any new release is just f****** mind blowing, hell it doesnt even have to be a full retail title every time something new comes out its impossable to play multiplayer for a week or three.

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