Battlefield 4 [Xbox One]

Awesome game... when it works, which is about 33% of the time now. Shame on DICE/EA/whoever for launching such a half-baked game. I can't believe I paid $60 for it, then paid another $50 for premium... yeah, I know, there's a term for that... BOHICA. I spend more time trying to connect to a multiplayer game, then actually playing one. Sometimes, it puts me in the room for the incorrect game mode. Then, when the DICE/EA Gods finally deem me worthy enough to put me in a Conquest or Domination game, it crashes midway and I get booted out to the Xbone home screen. A little bit of advice for the DICE/EA junior developers - if you guys are expecting this twitchy behavior, then how about throwing us a bone and providing more info/status when we're trying to connect to a game or why we're unexpectedly booted out of one? So we're not left in the dark wondering why the Conquest and Domination Nazis forbid us from playing (no Conquest for you!). It makes me wonder if the same guys also did the Obamacare website. Call of Duty is on my ban list for lag, now Battlefield 4 may be the last Battlefield I buy. This lack of QA is intolerable and should not be rewarded. UPDATE 07-DEC - Good grief, the game works 0% of the time now. The game no longer launches/loads and I get booted out to the home screen 100% of the time now. Whatever update they published out last night made things worst for me. I hope uninstalling and re-installing the game will fix it. I wish I could rate it 0 stars. UPDATE 09-DEC - After uninstalling, then re-installing the game and add-ons, it still wouldn't load. After contemplating taking my $110 disc to the range for target practice, I power-cycled my Xbone, and now all is back to normal, where normal is the game working 33% of the time. Having said that, it's been a pain to get into a multiplayer game w/ friends. We're either scattered across different teams or different squads... and that's if everybody made it into the game. BF3 had the notion of creating a squad and inviting your friends into your squad. BF4 (and Xbone) just took a big step back in progress, especially w/ Xbone parties and party chat. Yeap, there's a term for that... SNAFU. UPDATE 19-DEC - DICE released an update on 13-DEC: [...] I've played a couple of days w/ this update and it was still a royal pain to connect to a multiplayer game. It would still crash mid-game for me as well. What good is fixing bugs if I can't even connect and play a multiplayer game? Well, on that note, DICE has released another update today (19-DEC): [...] From the looks of it, this update may resolve those issues and I shall find out. UPDATE 03-JAN - I've only played the game a few times since DICE's latest update. Needless to say, it's still no bueno. The first couple of times, it was a little better getting into a game of Conquest or Domination, but last night was awful. Party chat was not working and after 30 minutes of trying to get it to work, we switched to game chat (which sucks until you're in a game). When we were all finally able to get into the same game [of Conquest], it was so laggy that I thought I was playing Call of Duty. We decided to leave that server to find a new one, but apparently that was a big mistake. We lost our connections to EA servers and could not get into the multiplayer menu, premium menu, or battlelog. Seriously, I can't keep telling my friends "one more time" because their patience is wearing thinner than mine. This game is supposed to be my place of Zen, not a source of stress. UPDATE 20-JAN - It looks like things have gotten better; I've played the game a few times since my last update and my friends and I can finally play more than one match of Conquest per session. However, there's still a few things wrong. First, don't bother with Quick Match and go straight to Server Browser because Quick Match has not been reliable for me; and when it puts me in the queue, I'm on the black screen [loading] indefinitely w/ no control whatsoever - I have to quit and restart the game, then quickly hit B when it prompts to leave the queue or else I'll get put back into the black loading screen. Server Browser works much better, but I have to scroll all the way past full rooms to a room w/ open spots - why can't they default the sort by ascending number of open spots instead of descending number of open spots? Party chat seems to be running ok - I haven't had many issues getting the gang together w/ party chat. And last, but not least, the server will almost always lag out once per match. Having said that, I have updated my rating accordingly and, unfortunately, that is the max number of stars I will give the game given the frustration it has caused me the past couple of months. UPDATE 22-FEB - The game is still a buggy and leggy mess, and there's no amount of free virtual crap and quadruple points months that DICE/EA can give to make it better. How can a player w/ 0% health kill me w/ 2 shots out of an assault rifle and I have 100% health? I'm tired of cursing at this game, I'm done. I tried the Titanfall Beta and it looks promising. Since it's also an EA title, I'm going to wait a few weeks before buying it. I've learned my lesson w/ BF4.