[imgteaserright=images/battlefront_logo_2.jpg][/imgteaserright]Wie CVG nach einem kurzen Interview mit Patrick Söderlund (Exec VP of the EA Games Label) auf der E3 berichtet, ist DICE wirklich begeistert ein Battlefront Spiel zu entwickeln. Schaut man sich die Aussagen von Patrick Söderlund an, könnte man es sogar so interpretieren, dass der Deal mit Disney, welcher Battlefront möglich machte, fast gescheitert wäre und nur dank DICE zustande kam.
Scheinbar war EA schon geneigt abzulehnen, da sie nicht genug Ressourcen zur Verfügung hatten, um das Spiel zu entwickeln. Doch als Battlefield Executive Producer Patrick Bach und DICE General Manager Karl-Magnus Troedsson davon hörten, wollten sie es unbedingt machen. Laut Söderlund schien es fast so als wären sie sogar bereit gewesen dafür zu töten. Das ganze Studio soll schon darüber gesprochen haben und begeistert gewesen sein.
Außerdem ist erwähnenswert, dass Leute, einschließlich Bach selbst, die jahrelang an Battlefield gearbeitet haben, an Battlefront arbeiten werden. Es wird also definitiv von fähigen Leuten in Stockholm entwickelt. Wir dürfen mehr als gespannt sein, was da kommen wird.
Hier nochmal als Zitat von CVG:
ZitatAlles anzeigenSo confirmed Patrick Söderlund, exec VP of the EA Games label, in an interview with CVG at E3 today, during which he confirmed that Battlefield executive producer Patrick Bach and DICE general manager Karl-Magnus Troedsson jumped at the chance to develop a Battlefront game.
"It was almost not happening," said Söderlund of the deal with Disney that made the new Battlefront game possible.
"It was just something as boring as resources and availability. The DICE guys Karl-Magnus [Troedsson] and Patrick [Bach] were talking and I told them we were in dialogues with Disney over this deal and they just looked at me and said, 'why haven't you spoken to us? What are you doing? We want to make Battlefront'."
Söderlund went on, "DICE is a very particular place and they are very proud of what they do and you don't really tell them what to do. I didn't anticipate them wanting to work on a license - they've always been new IP or their own IP. But they were just like, 'we would kill to make this game' and the whole studio started talking about it like, 'please give us this game'."
He later said that "people that have worked on Battlefield for many years" including "Patrick [Bach] himself" are working on the new title, teased for the first time during the EA conference on Monday. "These are experienced DICE people in Sweden building this game - it's being built in Stockholm," he confirmed.
