I saw this pop up in my Reddit feed and thought it was a joke at first. I knew that BfN has had a rocky road and a lot of big fans of the GW games weren't happy with the game, but this still hits pretty hard. For all the game's issues, I still had fun with it and there are some really nice customizations in the game. This explains why the devs have been quiet for so long, those that feared the worst have been proven correct unfortunately.
So much cool stuff was datamined; Iceberg Lettuce, other characters in various stages of planning, Ops phase 3, and so on, all sounded exciting. And while I'm a natural pessimist, it's hard to not at least try to be hopeful when you really like an IP, and PvZ has been a favorite since I got the original game via Steam all those years ago. Like many here, GW2 is still my favorite PvZ shooter as BfN's myriad of issues kept it down, even as I do like so much it has to offer; including things like; the ability to save 3 builds/costumes per character, the excellent customizations, and I love the free roam zones (the first time through anyway), and something I greatly appreciate on PC-anti-cheat so we don't have gnome bosses in TT. But, we also have a broken economy, lack of variety in summons, hit registration issues, lack of marketing, and so on.
A ton of effort has obviously been put into the game; the free roam zones, the new characters, the customizations, and some big changes (good and less so). I hate to see all this work lost and to see the game just wilt so early. As we said back in Founder's, the game was released too early and today it still suffers from key issues that frustrate players. Quite a few of the folks from the GW2 forums are barely around anymore, as they slowly post their frustrations and then stop posting. Even with the dev team obviously caring about the game and having some great ideas, the game has been suffering.
With Justin Wiebe moving on and now this, I'm worried about what the future holds for our favorite shooter series. I'd prefer to see BfN not die and get things fixed and balanced and see all the cool ideas that are already started and have been datamined and/or discussed in the game, but it looks like it will join GW and GW2 in maintenance mode. It looks like we can still play it for the foreseeable future but these games are a lot more fun when new stuff is being added; characters (variants), customizations, and so on. Every free DLC we had for GW and GW2 made the games even more enjoyable to play, and I already loved them.
If BfN is going to be left with no updates after this one, what plans are there for a new game? Will we get a GW3? BfN 2? Some other idea? Or is the series dead? I hope it's not the latter, that would be a crying shame.
