In brief: Fawzi Mesmar, Dice'south caput of blueprint who was function of the Battlefield and Star Wars: Battlefront franchises, is leaving the company in the wake of Battlefield 2042'southward disastrous launch, though he says the move has been planned for a long fourth dimension.

VGC reports that Mesmar announced his divergence to staff in an email revealing he had been planning to leave Dice for some other company post-obit the release of Battlefront 2042.

"It was an absolute pleasure to serve on the best blueprint teams in the galaxy," Mesmar wrote in his message. "The incredible blueprint work that yous practice continues to inspire me every day. Thanks for putting some religion in me, I hope I didn't disappoint."

"I have been fabricated an offering I couldn't refuse at another company that has been kind enough to wait for me until we have shipped [Battlefield 2042]. Information technology was super important to me to exist here with the squad as we achieve this historical milestone."

Mesmar had previously been the studio director, product & game design at Candy Shell maker King before taking upwardly a position as Dice'south head of design in September 2022, where he worked on the likes of Star Wars Battlefront II and Battlefield V.

"While Oskar [Gabrielson, studio GM] and myself have been discussing my succession plans for some time – and it will be appear in due form – we opted to delay this communication till after launch to keep the focus – rightfully and so – on the game we've been putting a awe-inspiring amount of effort on," Mesmar added.

Sadly for Mesmar, his final project at DICE, Battlefield 2042, launched with and so many issues and missing features that information technology chop-chop became one of the worst Steam games of all fourth dimension as ranked by user reviews; over 40,000 of the game's 57,000 reviews are negative. The game'due south second update, which arrived today, addresses some critical server bug and tightens bullet spread, improves zooming, and more, though there are all the same plenty more bug to fix.

Mesmar's last day at Die volition be tomorrow, Nov 26. His adjacent position, which is currently unknown, volition also exist based in the Swedish capital of Stockholm.

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