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EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN (www.ign.com)
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[–] 4 points 8 months ago (4 children)

The article definitely makes it sound like it wasn’t as big of a hit as they initially thought it was.

Steam concurrents have also dropped significantly following Battlefield 6's big launch, when it hit a huge 747,440 peak. Steam concurrents are now, typically, in the tens of thousands. For example, Battlefield 6 hit 67,000 peak concurrent players on Valve's platform yesterday.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    They launched it with a rootkit which conflicted with Riot's rootkit, then they later implemented micro transaction popups a couple of months later. It's no wonder to actual consumers as to why their player numbers plummeted.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago*

    That makes a lot of sense! I didn’t know they added the micro transaction stuff but that explains why reviews plummeted after a couple months.

    Thanks for the details! (Or for telling me something I missed in the article)

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