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Battlefield 2042 dips below 1000 players for the first time on Steam.
- Thread starter Stacey
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For reference, Halo Infinite's playing right now (2900) is higher than 2042's 24 hour peak on Steam. Neither game has a healthy player base on the platform, but 2042's numbers are really dire.
It's actually surprising that Godfall held on to the majority of its playerbase, while Battlefield cratered in weeks.
Soon
The moment hackers/cheaters ANNOUNCED they were no longer supporting this game - that was the death knell.
Let the hype cycle for BF6 start! /s
Let the hype cycle for BF6 start! /s
Intelligence Arguable?
Won't disagree with you on that. Stopped playing it on my PS5 at the beginning of the year.
It's dead, Jim.
The most hilarious part is this game came out on Steam over a year later after being an exclusive on Origin.. And its rolling BF2042 hard.
This is just on Steam.
Yeah, I believe this strategy to be the best course of action right now.
They haven't. Yes this game is an absolute joke but people are still craving Battlefield, hence why they're looking for alternatives or just playing V/1/4 etc. I don't think EA (or DICE, really) are in a good position to fill that gap atm though but we'll see
This is just on Steam.
Yeah I guess a lot of the BF players just went back, or never moved forward then.
They should drop a next gen update for Battlefield V, give everyone that bought 2042 a free copy and just forget it exists, work on something else.
I don't think there's any saving it since many of the things I hate about it are very fundamental to the design.
This is just on Steam.
They should just release next gen versions of BFV along with new planned content and pretend 2042 never released.
Sorry, I got confused, in spanish AI (Artificial Intelligence) is IA (Inteligencia Artificial) lol
Going back to BFV (and maybe even Battlefront II) and continuing their content like the planned eastern front expansion would be a great start to a redemption arc for DICE. Killing off support for those two games right as they were hitting their stride so that we could end up with BF2042 is one of the worst trades ever.
Imagine being forced to support a 120 player game with a decimated player base. Hope people like fighting bots.
I can't believe they didn't even take a serious stab at fixing bugs. It's hard to even comment and give feedback on the core mechanics when bugs are so prevalent and unfixed. It's shocking where they started with the franchise and where they are today.
I agree, such a shame! Especially after they made the game so much more enjoyable, it's a blast to play now. I'd rather these resources had been used to add content to that instead or just "remaster" BF4 with 2042 graphics.
2042 proved to be a massive waste of everyone's time, but most important they wasted a lot of talented people on this just because leadership couldn't decide on what they wanted.
I kind of agree. It's a fundamentally flawed game in many respects. I understand what they were going for but it clearly didn't work… so back to the drawing board.
Used to be a huge BF fan but I haven't played this behind the 10 hour trial. BFV was left to die too soon… the bones of that game were good and they got it into a pretty solid spot by the time support was dropped.
I wont uninstall this junk until I get my "year 1" content.
FG don't need to fill 60-128 player lobbies though.
It's such a shame. I loved the idea of the game before the beta and I felt it would be a return to form and the first BF for me since 4... Boy was I wrong.
What also kills them is the starting weapon kits are awful. I tried playing with two people who haven't played yet. What little players are left have such insane vehicles that can hover and fly around a million miles per hour, and the starting kits new players have can't do jack shit to stop them.
After two games of getting decimated by overpowered vehicles and not being able to do anything about it, we all just hopped in Battlefield 4 instead. Trash game design. It is such a wall for any new player who might be curious to give the game a shot.
After two games of getting decimated by overpowered vehicles and not being able to do anything about it, we all just hopped in Battlefield 4 instead. Trash game design. It is such a wall for any new player who might be curious to give the game a shot.
EA seems to still be stuck on the 2-3 year cycle when it comes to BF. It makes sense as their biggest competitor COD is annual (except this year or next?) but when you have a fumble as bad as 2042, some bean counter at EA goes "we don't have enough resources to fix this, it wouldn't pay off".
I feel real bad for the people who paid for it, and for the people willing to look past its faults, but the game lives or dies by having a playerbase, and this is quite bad (even if it is only 1 storefront).
I feel real bad for the people who paid for it, and for the people willing to look past its faults, but the game lives or dies by having a playerbase, and this is quite bad (even if it is only 1 storefront).
Quite alright, the game itself deserves to be dunked in any manner possible.
Yeah, tried logging in PS5 on friday night on a highlighted section of Friday with Battlefield or something like that thinking I would find some players on Portal but it was me versus another poor soul fighting with helis while two bot armies were battling over the flags... Thank god I did not spend a penny on it (EA Play Trial).