Battlefield 2042 Refund Petition Gets Over 120,000 Signatures

A Change.org peti­tion ask­ing play­ers be allowed to get refund­ed for Bat­tle­field 2042 now has over 100,000 signatures.

The peti­tion, which was start­ed on Feb­ru­ary 2nd, calls EA’s release of the lat­est Bat­tle­field game a ““mock­ery of every cus­tomer who pur­chased this video game.” The goal of the peti­tion is to show how many peo­ple want full refunds for Bat­tle­field 2042, with the page sug­gest­ing a class-action law­suit could be filed. How­ev­er, it’s unclear if a case of that cal­iber would even hold up in court.

“Sign­ing this peti­tion will get you one step clos­er to get­ting a refund on Bat­tle­field 2042,” the peti­tion page reads. “Sup­pose this peti­tion receives 50K sig­na­tures or more. In that case, one of the best class-action law­suit lawyers in the coun­try is will­ing to take our case against EA.”

EA has giv­en no indi­ca­tion that it plans to offer refunds, and any affects from this peti­tion are yet to known. Out­side of stan­dard­ized sys­tems, pub­lish­ers offer­ing refunds on games is extreme­ly uncommon–which is why Cyber­punk 2077’s refunds were such a big deal.

It’s obvi­ous that fans of the Bat­tle­field series are not hap­py with Bat­tle­field 2042. Since its launch back in Novem­ber, the game has seen a num­ber of bugs and issues, all of which has kept DICE busy sort­ing them out. That’s the point. The prob­lems have left the devel­op­ment team so short­hand­ed, they are not able to focus on extra con­tent for the game. Recent­ly, DICE delayed Bat­tle­field 2042’s first sea­son, which was sup­posed to add more con­tent to the title.

Accord­ing to an EA earn­ings report, the game is also dis­ap­point­ing the pub­lish­er. One of the key take­aways from this past fis­cal quar­ter was that Bat­tle­field 2042 failed to reach the com­pa­ny’s expec­ta­tions.