Why did people hate it, because it has minority and female characters?
No because its a pisspoor excuse for including diversity without actually promoting it. World War 2 included more than 30 countries, yet theres no sign of anyone other than the British and Germans. They couldve showcased badass women like those in the Soviet front, or included Japanese and Chinese troops, they couldve had Indians fighting for the allies in Africa, or the Maori as well. Thats diversity. Thats showing sides of the war that are rarely exposed by videogames. Its so easy to show that the war wasnt just fought by white men.
The issue is that instead of that, they created nonsensical characters that couldve never existed, feature stories that are blatantly against the timeline of the war, and include the least amount of factions in any of the most recent Battlefield games.
But yeah, people are mad because of the Asian women fighing for Germany.
Battlefield 1 did a much better example for promoting diversity in a way that doesnt completely contradict history.
Now we have devs saying that people need to grow up and read a book. Thank you for educating me on the incredibly accepting and open minded Nazis, DICE.
The stuff you're listing had so little to do with sales that it might as well have been entirely insignificant. It's a combination of really poor marketing compared to Battlefield One which had really good ads everywhere and a lack of battle royale mode, which is the most popular thing in video games atm and which its primary competitor has and built almost all its advertising around. ---