Second wind: Battlefield 2042 online peak reached 102 000 thanks to free weekends and discounts
Battlefield 2042 turned out to be a failure at launch. Players complained about bugs and lack of content, and the score on Metacritic is still 2 out of 10. However, as practice shows, big discounts, new content, and the opportunity to play the game for free will help to temporarily return the game to the top.
Here's What We Know
From 12 to 16 October, the game had a free weekend. Also during this time, the game had a big discount, and at the same time, Battlefield 2042 season 6 was released. All this made players pay attention to the project. Already on 13 October, the peak online was 50 thousand, although before that it was 8-10 thousand, and on 15 October, 102,000 people entered the game at the same time. Interestingly, the game's record is 105,000 people, which was set at the release 2 years ago. The game lacked literally 3 thousand gamers to update this figure.
Although Battlefield 2042 has 50 thousand players at the time of writing, it is unlikely that it will be able to maintain this figure for a long time, and in a month, the online will return to the "old values". But if you need to revive your game at least for a while, you know what to do. After all, a similar story happened with Titanfall 2 in September, when the game received a 90% discount on Steam.
Where To Play
Battlefield 2042 is available on PC, PlayStation 4/5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, and EA Play subscription.
Source: steamdb
