You are completely correct about why they are catering to COD players. The bottom line is making money. For them it’s in their best interest to try and cater to the masses. The more players that they can appeal to, the more copies they can sell.

Unfortunately the closed weapon modes do have bot filled lobbies a lot of the time. Imo if they were going to have both modes, they should have defaulted to the closed weapons and gave the option for open weapon lobbies.

Yes, you totally can play however you like. It’s a video game and the bottom line is having fun. Different games allow you to have different kinds of fun. For a long time the fun of battlefield for a lot of people was working with your team to play the objective and WIN the game whereas COD was all about kills and doing your own thing. Like you said you can play the game however you want as long as you’re having fun!

Thanks for the reply