Mike Ybarra, Blizzard's former president who chaired the company through Microsoft's acquisition, is throwing shots at his ex on social media, but for good reason. Ybarra posted on X, saying, "Battlefield will boot stomp CoD this year. But the real win here is CoD won’t be lazy anymore, and we’ll all get better FPS games for it."
Battlefield has been enjoying one hell of a resurgence these past few days, with the latest entry in the series poised to mark a sensational comeback for the FPS genre as a whole. Battlefield 6 takes a back-to-basics approach that its rival, Call of Duty, has slowly drifted away from. EA itself tainted the shooter's legacy with Battlefield 2042, but the publisher is doing everything right at the moment—and one waned executive seems to agree. Ybarra's sentiment echoes the community reaction to Battlefield 6, with the game's open beta amassing over 250,000 players this weekend.
