Former Blizzard president Mike Ibarra believes Battlefield 6 will "completely beat" Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 this year, and said that this is a great result for the entire FPS gaming field.
The open test of "Battlefield 6" was launched yesterday, with the peak concurrent players on the Steam platform reaching 334,549, quickly becoming the most popular "Battlefield" series on the platform with a huge advantage.There is no doubt that the game has two months left before it officially releases, and the former Blizzard president believes it will completely surpass Call of Duty: Black Ops 7.
“This year, Battlefield will beat COD,” Ibarra declared on social media. “But the real gain is that COD will no longer be perfunctory and we can all play better FPS games.”
Ibara further explained in a follow-up tweet that since Infinity War in 2016, “COD has been on a downhill road for many years.”He added: "Cheating issues, bloated interfaces and installation packages, fancy color schemes... players are already tired of it. Fortunately, Battlefield will force them to make changes."
Whether this prediction can come true remains to be seen, but we have seen Battlefield 6 respond to the issues mentioned by Ibarra in several ways.Its installation package is surprisingly simple in size, with Steam showing a minimum of 55GB of storage (this seems to be due to the design that components such as single-person, multi-person can be installed separately).
As for the appearance decoration, the developers emphasized that making the skin "fits the reality" and "compliant with the authentic style of the series" is "critical" to the team.This means - unless there are exceptions in the future - Battlefield 6 is expected to avoid repeating the mistakes of "COD" and will not launch exaggerated cross-border linkages and brightly colored costumes.
Battlefield 6 is scheduled to be released on October 10, while Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is still vaguely set to 2025.In the next few months, we only need to wait for the final results of the two games.
