Battlefield 4 Lawsuit Dismissed by Judge

Battlefield 4 Lawsuit Dismissed by Judge

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Lee Bradley

The lawsuit brought against EA for the launch of Battlefield 4 has been dismissed by a federal judge. 

The suit accused the publisher of deceiving investors with a series of misleading statements regarding Battlefield 4’s quality prior to launch.

As we know, at launch and for a long, long time after, Battlefield 4 was a mess, with multiple connection issues, bugs, glitches and other problems.

US District Judge Susan Illston said in his ruling that EA’s pre-release statements to investors represented, “non-actionable vague expression of corporate optimism and puffery upon which no reasonable investor would rely."

Illston ruled, "The Court agrees with defendants that all of the purported misstatements are inactionable statements of opinion, corporate optimism, or puffery."

[Via CVG]

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  • and all the money EA mugged from the customers clearly paid for this decision JOKE!
  • Customers should know better than being mugged by them like that. I mean, it's not like there no precedent in the history of videogames. You should never buy on day one. Especially multiplayer games, or games that force you to be connected even to play singleplayer. You are bound to be shafted if you do buy them on day one.
  • Isn't the single player still broken in terms of save data being wiped?
  • So the judge agreed that EA was full of shit but dismissed the case by saying the investors where duped because they are stupid?
  • And now we know it's perfectly legal and "okay" to release broken games with no consequences.
  • Never heard of a man named Susan before.
  • @1,2,5 - No, you guys missed the original article. This was not a lawsuit brought forward by consumers cause game was shit, this was a lawsuit by EA's shareholders brought against EA cause the game didnt make enough money. Essentially the argument was EA misled the board about how good the game was going to be, and since it wasn't they didn't get as much as share of the greed pie as they thought they would. This was never about the little guy.
  • @2 to be fair mate I was excited for BF4 in a way id never been for a game before, having originally played BF3 on ps3 and then moving onto the PC version ive never loved a game so much and had as much fun as I did with BF3 on PC from that experience I was expecting the PS4+BF4 to give an experience similar to or superior to that of BF3 on PC, 64 players, new graphics, 60fps etc I was absorbed with excitement.......then of course I played it to give BF4 slight credit, it works much better on PC than it does on PS4 but BF3 ultimately for me was the better game and forever will I be scared with my mistake.
  • @#7 They might know, but I doubt they care much. As long as there is reason to throw shit at EA lol. I for one am glad. We are all human beings and shareholders especially, should know better. I don't know how the whole relationship works, but one would assume they do get to see the game in stages or something. To this day I have only played 2 day trial version of BF on PS+ and I can honestly say it feels like BF3, so there is really no need to spend more money... Hardline looks like it's going to be the same way (working or non working) though I do have high hopes for single player this time seeing as it's Visceral at the helm=)
  • @6 You're not familiar with Johnny Cash?
  • EA should be sued so they can learn their lesson on releasing unfinished games.
  • Love EA. EA Access is best thing ever I hope it makes its way to PS4 someday. Have it on Xbox one and its better then PS+ IMO
  • @12 Your an idiot. PS+ is required to play online just like Xbox live. Except Sony gives us free games, way more free games then games with gold mind you. Now your playing a few select EA games for free, by paying $30 a year + xbox live $60 a year. Gratz for you being able to play Bf4 paying $90 a year. Your opinion is the same reason X360 had 1 year head start, and playstation managed to catch up. Your also the guy that paid $400 to $500 for a console that is inferior. Yes your opinion matters ever so slightly.
  • yay
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