At some point, the developers behind Battlefield 2042 have to know when to quit, and now is a pretty good time to do it.
According to EA Dice, it will no longer make new content for Battlefield 2042's Hazard Zone "beyond addressing critical errors and odd behaviors that may appear in the future."
In a way, this is EA telling people that Battlefield 2042 is dead.
Hazard Zone should have been one of Battlefield 2042's biggest strengths, except it turned out to be a massive disappointment. Although the "not battle royale" mode is not solely to blame for Battlefield 2042's failure, it certainly did not help.
What's interesting here is the news of dropping support for Hazard Zone after EA DICE announced it's lowering the required player count for certain modes like Breakthrough and Conquest by half. This would suggest that EA DICE already had this planned for a while but waited to break the news, perhaps in an attempt to mitigate the backlash. However, as the game already has fewer than a thousand players, we don't think that it comes off as a shock that EA is redirecting its focus.