Patrick Söderlund Says Battlefield Will Not Become An Annualized Franchise

<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">Despite the recent trend of releases&comma; EA will not bring out a Battlefield game every year to compete with Activision Blizzard&&num;8217&semi;s annualized Call of Duty franchise&period; The confirmation came from EA Studio&&num;8217&semi;s executive vice president <&sol;span><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;141415&semi;"><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">Patrick Söderlund&period; In an interview with<&sol;span> <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;polygon&period;com&sol;2014&sol;6&sol;16&sol;5815908&sol;battlefield-hardline-annual-ea">Polygon<&sol;a>&comma; <span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">Söderlund stated that the company is not going to dedicate itself to  simply releasing the same big franchises every year&period; &&num;8220&semi;The EA that I&&num;8217&semi;m trying to help build isn&&num;8217&semi;t an EA that needs to annualize everything&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he said&period;<&sol;span><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">It&&num;8217&semi;s not difficult to see why fans of the franchise may have got that impression as we have had a major Battlefield release in four of the past five years&period; Even though there was a 2 year gap between Battlefield 3 in 2011 and Battlefield 4 in 2013&comma;the latter still felt like a very rushed game and suffered severe problems at launch&period; Now EA is launching Battlefield&colon; Hardline less than 12 months later and many are wondering how EA will avoid the mistakes of the past&period;&&num;8221&semi;Everything that we&&num;8217&semi;ve fixed with &lbrack;Battlefield 4&rsqb; will go into Hardline&&num;8221&semi;&comma; said Söderlund&period; &&num;8221&semi;Once people get their hands on the netcode patch&comma; which I think is profound&comma; that will take care of a lot of the complaints around Battlefield&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">Battlefield&colon; Hardline will launch on October 21 for PC&comma; PS4&comma; PS3&comma; Xbox One and Xbox 360&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;gamespot&period;com&sol;articles&sol;battlefield-hasn-t-been-annualized-despite-hardline-coming-one-year-after-bf4&sol;1100-6420525&sol;">Gamespot<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;