This is a debatable one.
On one hand moving on to a new project from the ground up with new leadership can get us a new BF faster, on the other hand its hard to even market a new BF title with the promise of support off the heels of dropping support from the last title.
Let them use 2042 to see what the series needs in regards to changes and feedback and let that feedback guide the next BF, vs the next BF being their FIRST time with that director. I think BF needs the long term approach and shouldn't be a every other year type thing anymore.
Zampella's dudebro, deep as a puddle COD games are the reason I was drawn to the other franchise in Battlefield in the first place.
Now Im supposed to be excited that douche is in charge of Battlefield?
The OG creators of Battlefield are long gone - as is all hope the BF franchise will ever reach its original heights.
I greatly disagree on all fronts...
Titanfall isn't like Call Of Duty, Call Of Duty wasn't 100% like Medal Of Honor, Fallen Order wasn't like Call Of Duty. He directs based on what the project is, not based on "COD gamez", if he can't bring BF back to glory, I'd say its more so on EA, as something they want from the IP has more to do with this odd direction then a person with a proven track record of making solid titles.
So this whole idea of a person making a game and assuming something else they make will be like that game is silly, or are you expecting Fallen Order 2 to play like APEX?
A great amount of the past BF developers still exist at DICE as you are free to look them up in the credits, based on whats going on at EA, I believe its overall irrelevant to any of this. The fucking people who made some of the best maps for BF3, BF4, BF1 etc worked on 2042, easily some of the worst maps in BF history, that doesn't mean they didn't make great maps in the past, it means them being there is fucking irrelevant if EA is OKing a designer to do any and every wrong with IP by directing those map designers to make massive maps at all cost or something. I've even read people say shit like "if only they had the person that made the maps for BF4" like the fuck? They did, a lot of those same people literally are making those maps in 2042 lol