‘Trust continues to be tampered with’: A thread about SBMM in the upcoming Battlefield game is the final straw as an EA community manager lets loose on leakers

The next Battlefield game has been in an early playtest for a while now, with EA deciding to take a new angle on community testing by introducing its Battlefield Labs initiative, a new way for players to test out potential features for the upcoming game. The only problem being that, despite an NDA, participants have been leaking footage of the untitled game all over the place, to the disdain of EA.

This has been a recurring problem, but it seems like we found the final straw: Players openly discussing potential SBMM features. Rumours about the next Battlefield having SBMM started to spread like wildfire, with most players responding negatively, saying that it’s either not needed or it makes matches worse. In a Reddit post, one player shares a PSA from David Sirland, Battlefield’s lead producer, trying to calm tensions by effectively saying that all of this is temporary and being done with a light touch. But when grumpy commenters take to the replies to complain, the community manager steps in.