Battlefield 5’s Battle Royale Mode Won’t Arrive Until Spring 2019

We have a launch window for Battlefield 5’s Battle Royale mode, but not a launch date. Are you ready for games as a service? It’s not news that Battlefield 5 won’t be launching with it’s new Battle Royale mode, known as “Firestorm,” intact. What is a story is that it won’t be arriving until Spring […]

We have a launch window for Battlefield 5’s Battle Royale mode, but not a launch date. Are you ready for games as a service?

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It’s not news that Battlefield 5 won’t be launching with it’s new Battle Royale mode, known as “Firestorm,” intact. What is a story is that it won’t be arriving until Spring of next year, and still does not have a set release date. In a recent update, EA laid out their plans for the launch, and support, of Battlefield 5.

EA is doubling down on the idea of Battlefield 5 as a “live service.” From the outside looking in, this mostly strikes me as the Triple-A spin on Early Access. The promise is that the game will eventually have all the modes and content that we are promised, but it will take a while. In the meantime, what we do get will be so amazing and awesome that it will keep us thoroughly entertained until then. Wink-wink. Nudge-nudge. I guess Mass Effect fans can be glad that Andromeda wasn’t sold that way.

Okay, so I am finding it hard to hide my fatigue over the idea of “games as a service,” but that is just because I liked “games as a product” just fine. I could understand a smaller studio needing to Early Access a game, due to simple logistics. I cannot quite wrap my head around Triple-A development needing to do the same. At the end of the day, I am sure Battlefield 5 will fall perfectly into line with recent games in the series, and the people who like that kind of thing will love it. Firestorm can, in a way, be seen as a whole new extra mode, and something that the series has lived just fine without until this point.

It could also be seen as a smart idea, allowing them to drop Firestorm into its own window and get some of the big Battle Royale streamers on board for a few weeks when it launches. As I said, there is a lot of upsides for this move from a business perspective, and it should allow them to get a more polished product out there whenever the mode does finally land. We will simply have to wait and see.


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Aidan O'Brien has been playing games for over three decades and has been writing about them for five years. When not getting stomped on by the creations of Hidetaka Miyazaki, he enjoys spending too much time in Warframe, Destiny 2 and any other ARPG with a solid grind. When not writing, he is doing inexplicable behind-the-scenes magic for GAMURS Group.