It seems that the first head has already rolled, or the abandonment of the ship, and it is that today we know that Fawzi Mesmar, the chief designer of Battlefield 2042 at DICE, he has left the company he had been working for since 2019 and where he was in charge of 80 developers on the design team. In theory, he said, he had a job offer at another studio and was waiting for the game to launch before leaving the studio.

This just confirms what I already knew, that the launch was a disaster, and if that wasn’t enough, yesterday a patch was released and more problems were incorporated, such as one of connectivity in the servers where you got an annoying red tab indicating an unknown error.

“It has been a real pleasure to be part of the best design teams in the galaxy. The incredible design work you do continues to inspire me every day. Thank you for trusting me, I hope I have not disappointed you. You have made me an offer that I could not. turn down another company that has been kind enough to wait for me until we released Battlefield 2042. It was super important to me to be here with the team as we achieved this historic milestone.

Although Oskar [Gabrielson, director general de DICE] And I have been talking about my succession plans for a long time – which will be announced in due course – and we have chosen to delay this communication until after launch to focus – rightly – on the game to which we have put a monumental effort. “