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The player numbers of “Battlefield 2042” are still on the decline. Even the predecessor has more players.
It is normal for the player numbers in multiplayer games to decrease over time. But in the case of “Battlefield 2042” by Electronic Arts, which was only released in mid-November 2021, the loss of players is much faster than with other genre representatives. Was on Steam
with fewer than 10,000 concurrent users
reached a new low. It cannot be due to a lack of interest in Steam, after all, the platform is currently recording new user records. But why is it that many players are turning away from the AAA title two months after the release? After all, they spent at least 50 euros on it.
A game like “Battlefield 2042” with up to 128 players simultaneously per map lives from its active community. Without a sufficiently high number of players, it takes a long time to find enough players for a round. Apparently, many buyers have even switched to the three-year-old predecessor game “Battlefield 5”, the number of players of which has remained solid with 20,000 simultaneous players, twice the number of the current offshoot “Battlefield 2042”.
Is there still hope?
It remains to be seen whether Electronic Arts and developer Dice can still manage to save the battered multiplayer title. Season 1 is scheduled to start in March 2022. Hopefully by then not even more players will have turned their attention to “Battlefield 2042”. Because once lost players can usually no longer be won back through new content. In addition, there are many bugs that reduce the fun of the game and cause further migration.
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