In case you missed it, World War II was, in fact, the first World War. WWII was so big, so epic, that historians skipped I and jumped right to II. At least, executives at EA worried that younger audiences might think along those lines.
Speaking at the 2016 Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Technology Conference, Electronic Arts CFO Blake Jorgensen admitted that " World War 1, we were worried that many of the younger consumers out there didn't know that there was a World War 2 or Vietnam, so World War 1..."
"Was almost passed over as a viable setting for a video game," is likely what he would have confessed to had he finished his sentence.
Jorgensen went on to explain that EA initially balked at DICE's proposal to root the next Battlefield in WWI because trench warfare didn't exactly brim with potential for fun scenarios. The technological shift the world underwent during that time seemed a better anchor.
"People started the war on horseback and ended the war with airplanes and tanks and battleships and submarines. And that's a huge opportunity for us to be able to do a video game around."
Battlefield 1 is due to launch on October 21, a few weeks ahead of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and three weeks ahead of Respawn Entertainment's Titanfall 2. Or is that a few weeks before? EA knows, but isn't telling.
Source: GameSpot
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