‘Anything Can Change’ – Battlefield 6 Dev Says It Plans to Listen to Community Feedback for ‘a Very Long Time’

Disclaimer: This nonfiction contains comments from an interrogation conducted earlier EA announced layoffs crossed Battlefield Studios.

Battlefield Studios says it plans to perceive to and enactment with the Battlefield 6 assemblage for “a precise agelong time” arsenic it continues post-launch enactment with Season 2: Nightfall portion dealing with an unsatisfied fanbase.

IGN caught up with Ripple Effect workplace plan manager Justin Wiebe to larn much astir however the squad is adapting to feedback successful effect to mixed opinions from fans. And arsenic it and the remainder of the four-studio radical that makes up BF Studios prepares to motorboat Season 2 Phase 2: Nightfall connected March 17, there’s 1 happening Wiebe said helium wanted fans to know: “We're listening, and we're reacting, and it's going to proceed that mode for a precise agelong time.”

“We're getting astonishing feedback from the community, and we're perpetually trying to strive to marque the champion crippled possible,” Wiebe said erstwhile talking astir BF Studio’s efforts to pass with fans. “So we admit the community's clip that they instrumentality to stock the details of what's moving and what's not moving for them, and we instrumentality it precise seriously.”

Reactions to Season 1 and the Season 2 hold near Battlefield 6 successful a unsmooth spot, but it didn’t commencement that way. In fact, the latest installment successful the classical EA FPS franchise yet became the best-selling crippled of 2025 aft launching for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S past October. We gave its multiplayer an 8/10 astatine the time, with the introduction managing to person beardown reviews from some critics and fans successful the weeks pursuing its release. Where it’s tally into occupation is everything that’s travel after, with fans bombarding societal media feeds with calls for bigger maps, progression and gameplay adjustments, grounded cosmetics, and much successful the months since.

As concerns and critiques person mounted, we asked Wiebe if BF Studios has felt the request to displacement its post-launch strategy to springiness players’ feedback much weight. Although there’s nary uncertainty the assemblage has played an important relation some aft and earlier the motorboat of Battlefield 6, helium says the reply isn’t truthful simple.

Anything tin alteration based connected what is going connected with the community, what is going connected with the feedback, and what we're seeing from the game.“

For him, including investigating done with the pre-launch Battlefield Labs program, the task astatine motorboat is the dev team’s vision. After that, it becomes thing more.

“So, for me, erstwhile we've launched the game, it's successful the community's hands to springiness america feedback. It becomes our crippled now. All feedback is important, and we measurement the assemblage feedback, but also, similar I said, we look astatine the information of what's really going connected successful telemetry. Sometimes it tin beryllium a cognition problem. Sometimes it's really like, no, some sources of accusation are saying, 'This is simply a large problem, and truthful we request to halt the plans we were going to bash and redirect and commencement focusing connected the things that we're seeing identified.'”

He continued: “That's the main happening to instrumentality distant here: It's not like, 'Hey, we crafted this monolithic plan, and we're going to clasp to it.' It's like, no. Anything tin alteration based connected what is going connected with the community, what is going connected with the feedback, and what we're seeing from the game.”

Battlefield 6 and the BF Studios squad volition proceed erstwhile the Nightfall update adds nighttime modes, the caller Hagental Base map, weapons, and much adjacent week. A 3rd signifier for Season 2, Hunter/Prey, volition past adhd much contented travel April 14. There’s nary connection yet regarding Season 3 oregon erstwhile it whitethorn launch.

For more, you tin work our afloat interrogation with Wiebe. You tin besides work up connected our different interrogation with much members of Ripple Effect from soon aft Battlefield 6’s launch. Be definite to besides cheque retired however the BF Studios squad responded to instrumentality feedback regarding cosmetics similar stickers and infantry skins successful the past.

Michael Cripe is simply a freelance writer with IGN. He's champion known for his enactment astatine sites similar The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be definite to springiness him a travel connected Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).