Game News Battlefield 2042: The Ordeal Continues for DICE and EA’s Game
It’s hard to say that the launch of Battlefield 2042. The commercial version of the game, released on November 18, has not convinced players yet. Badly designed maps, a whole bunch of bugs, missing promised content, unbalanced operators … There were a lot of complaints.
A situation that led more than 150,000 players to sign a petition request a refund of the title outside the usual framework, and which do not comply with the publication of the Season 1 postponement at the beginning of summer.
Battlefield 2042: A True Descent to Hell on PC
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Battlefield 2042 however, has received many corrective patches and new tools have been added to the Portal mode, but the public has not returned to the title en masse. To give you an idea, on Steam the peak at launch was over 100,000 players, in December, this total fell to 47,000, then 17,400, then 5600† In the last 30 days, and according to data from Stream Charts, the maximum number of players connected to the game from the Valve platform was from 3241† An extremely low total for a game of this size, which also benefits from a huge history.
Historically low number of players following Battlefield
But it’s not ready. For the very first time since launch, Battlefield 2042 dropped below 1,000 players last night connected simultaneously. Currently, there are about 951 players playing the Steam version of the game. Keep in mind that there are still console players out there, but at least this is a sad record for the franchise. This number of players is all the more striking than opposite, Battlefield Vi.e. the oldest of Battlefield 2042, currently has an average of 11,429 players over the past 30 days.
According to several sources, including Tom Henderson, who is very aware of this sort of thing, DICE would have abandoned the idea of creating the “ultimate” Battlefield from Battlefield 2042. to focus on a new opus much closer to those who made the success of the series† Until then, Season 1 and its content are expected before the summer, while that there should be a patch very soon solving stubborn bugs and balancing weapons and vehicles.
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