BATTLEFIELD REDSEC free-to-play is officially launched today or tomorrow. The Game Awards account revealed the secret, and the internet, as always, just went crazy. But not in the way you would have thought. The answers are so different that one can see the entire range from extreme hype to… let’s just say that there are some gamers who would refuse to play this title even if they were paid a whole lot.
The announcement was like a bomb that exploded in the gaming world. Some people, including Delta Force Update, were just fine with it and expressed the same feeling with the words “Lets Go🗣️🔥”. That is the mood, you know? The quality of excitement that makes one want to call off all plans. But just before you reach the end of the discussion, you will spot ‘silkyxsalah’ who reacted with, “You couldn’t offer me enough to get into the game.” That’s pretty brutal. The division is quite real, and it is already happening even before the game is officially launched.
In the middle of the chaos. A player named Alberto Huarastaca was simply lost and said, “What do you mean?” This is indeed a valid question since the tweet was very clear but maybe he wanted more specific information. Another player, Alex de Freitas, was more formal about it and asked, “Does anyone know when we will be able to download RedSec?” Very good question Alex. The ‘when’ is tomorrow, but what about the exact time? That’s a million-dollar question which always ends up with a server crash on launch day.
But wait, it gets more complicated. There is a new layer of drama unfolding in the replies. It seems that there is a dispute between a user named BitchyRichie from 2village_Studio and a group of other commenters. BitchyRichie called the game “half dead” which, considering that the game is not even out yet, is quite a bold claim. This led to a long debate with users like Heylel countering with “Dead yet I queue into full games with live players. Yeah man. Sure.” So what is it? Is it dead on arrival or are the servers going to be packed? The community can’t even agree on the most basic premise.
The doubt continues. A user called Proteo made a pretty strong statement by writing in Spanish: “Como se nota que es un juego apadrinado por Sony para sustituir a COD y por eso le das promoción a tope eh 😉 Veremos con COD BO7 si le das tanta promoción..”. This roughly translates to “You can tell it’s a game backed by Sony to replace COD and that’s why you’re giving it full promotion 😉 We’ll see with COD BO7 if you give it that much promotion..”. And so the corporate favoritism conspiracy theories have started. Gamers are indeed a suspicious lot.
And then there are the weird things. The game’s genre alone was enough to cause a disagreement. One user, Doot, seemed to indicate it was a battle royale which prompted Assasir_ to correct them with “Nah it’s a survival craft game”. Then APotatoSoph joined in and said, “No it’s an RTS. Bold move tbh”. So… what is it? A shooter? A survival game? A real-time strategy title? The official announcement calls it a free-to-play Battlefield 6 game, yet the players in the comments are already rewriting the rulebook. Confusion of this magnitude before the launch is usually not very good, or alternatively, it is just brilliant marketing. Who knows?
The concerns have now become even more specific. Swartzyy posed a very straightforward question: “Will there be buy stations? Like to buy UAVs etc, really hoping not”. This indicates that players have already started thinking about the in-game dynamics and how they might be same or different from those in other popular shooters like Warzone. Their concern is that it might be a clone, they want Battlefield to be recognized for its unique strengths.
And then, the subject changed, as it often does on Twitter, to real life problems. One user, NOISE FREQUENCY, quoted politics, saying, “All I see is dead children in Gaza. America and Israel are defined by Gaza Genocide now. Games like @Battlefield and @CallofDuty are tainted.” This is a powerful, sobering reminder that for some, the virtual battlefield is just as real and painful as the actual one. The reply chain then turned into an argument about how that subject is related to video games, because, of course, it did. Meanwhile, Makko AI confessed every online gamer’s nightmare with a PlayStation and Xbox setup.
