I don't have many friends in BF4 but today I went through the list and looked at last active times: a week ago, 2 weeks ago, a month ago, two weeks ago, 3 months ago... Yeah even my lucky charm Childs hasn't played for 3 months.
I couldn't wait to play last fall, even more than some others, having missed out on BF3. And despite having so many problems initially (300+ sound loops crashes) I kept trying. I haven't had a single crash for over a month now but I think I'm done. Even with the game working as intended or nearly so, the intended part is disappointing. And naval strike did nothing to alleviate, at least it did nothing for me.
It's a shame really. BF4 is a technical milestone, even with it's bugs and flaws it'a miles ahead of COD. Evidence of AAA money and labor spent is everywhere in the game yet sprinkled with idiotic bugs and game direction decisions.
Game became a chore for me. I have to actually motivate myself to play, like I'm playing a brutal and expensive pay to win, infinite grind MMO and not a FPS. Maybe I'm just burnt out from all the crashes but I'm convinced that if the game ran flawlessly I would have just reached the same conclusion earlier. Conclusion being that the game has everything but soul. Like there was no passion and creative vision leading the creation, just sheets with boxes to check based on charts of consumer studies. BF4 is like a guy flirting with a women at the bar but with 0 practice, just reading lines that research and statistics show as most successful.
I'll probably fire it up once in a while but back in the days leading to the launch. I never ever even dreamed I would reach this point 6 months later.
Again, never owned and barely played BF3 but I think it just keeps going in the wrong direction:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc7YUvh3VHA