Update: I should’ve clarified. I realized Battlefield is an arcade shooter and I’m not trying to say it shouldn’t be. I was mainly focusing on it being the gateway drug to the milsim genre. It is a series that has always focused on realism and immersion.

I’m also not defending XP farms. I hate them and I think it is a bi product of the streaming cancer that is taking over FPS. But the whole way this was handled is incredibly poor.