I don’t think pre-ordering is mentioned anywhere in that article…

Fingers crossed they go back to their BF3/4 roots.

Yessssssssss. Between this trailer, and their decision on class locked weapons in the upcoming beta, my hope levels are actually rising. It’s my all time favorite FPS series, pleaseeeee make a come back! 🥲

You can install the Store and Xbox app, and use Gamepass. I have a friend that does this, after I showed them how.

I’m in the same boat waiting for Linux to be a bit more “feature complete,” for me to daily.

In the mean time, check out W11 Enterprise IoT LTSC. It’s the secret menu item equivalent W11 they don’t wanna sell to consumers. It feels like a fresh W7 install with no AI, no bloat, no bullshit, and can even disable all telemetry. Only comes with Edge and Defender.

massgrave.dev has the iso’s and permanent activators.

Edit: Adding that you can install the App Store and Xbox App to make use of Game Pass.

I know this is a Linux community, but if you’re stuck on Windows for whatever reason still, there is a perfectly viable option.

Windows 11 Enterprise IoT LTSC.

There’s ISOs and permanent activation at: massgrave.dev

It’s basically what Windows should be, and feels like a fresh W7 install. No bloat, no AI, no bullshit. Legit just Edge and Defender, and all telemetry settings can be disabled.

I use it for my daily driver, then every few weeks or months when I see major updates I’m interested in, I hop onto my CachyOS install. I spend a day or so testing to see if everything feels polished/solid enough for me to ditch Windows.

It does seem a lot of games pivoted from cheap enough so everyone will buy it, to whale hunting. They had people run numbers and found whale hunting paid off more, and how much $ they could charge for a skin combined with FOMO before driving the whales away.