Gamers Threaten EA Games Class Action Over ‘Unplayable’ Battlefield 2042

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Battlefield 2042 EA Games Class Action Threats Overview:

• Who: More than 160,000 people have signed a petition calling on EA Games to refund their copies of Battlefield 2042 or face a class action lawsuit.
• Why: The players say EA falsely advertised the game, and when it was launched, it was “unplayable.”
• Where: The petition was posted to Change.org and is taking signatures from gamers worldwide.

Tens of thousands of people have signed a petition calling for EA Games to offer unconditional refunds for its new game Battlefield 2042 or else face a class action lawsuit.

As of Feb. 11, more than 160,000 people had signed a Change.org petition demanding EA Games refund its customers for the game. 

Petition creator Satoshi Nakamoto said the game was “unplayable” when it launched and that it still “has bugs that drastically change the in-game experience so much that it’s deemed an unfinished release by many community members.”

Nakamoto states that if the petition gets more than 50,000 signatures, he will reach out to “some of the best class action lawyers in the country” to evaluate a case against EA and DICE. 

“EA’s release of Battlefield 2042 was a mockery of every customer who purchased this video game for $70 due to EA’s false advertising,” he states. “Battlefield 2042 has cost consumers millions of dollars in damages and upset thousands of customers worldwide.”

The petition is directed at EA, DICE, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Steam, Microsoft and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). DICE is a video game developer and a subsidiary of EA.

EA Says It Is “Committed To Pushing Up The Quality Of The Game,” Delays Start Of First Season 

The company addressed customer feedback that the game was released unfinished in its latest blog post. 

It said it was “committed to pushing up the quality of the game” and announced that it was delaying the start of the first season until the summer as it works with the community to fix the technical side of the game and tweak its most controversial design elements.

In 2020, EA was hit with a class action lawsuit in Canada alleging the company’s practice of selling randomized “loot boxes” for profit constituted an illegal gambling business. 

Plaintiffs claimed the company knew that the loot box enterprise was illegal and “wilfully concealed” its unlawful nature from customers.

Meanwhile Nintendo was hit with a class action lawsuit last year alleging its Nintendo Switch has a defect dubbed the “Joy-Con drift,” a problem with the controller’s analog stick that causes the game to move on its own. 

In 2019, a plaintiff in the state of Washington filed a class action lawsuit asserting that Nintendo knew of the problem but failed to take any action or warn consumers.

Do you think EA Games should give customers a refund? Let us know in the comments! 

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