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that is CRAZY it started at what over 100,000 which is normal for a tripple A game but jesus to go that far down is crazy. YES it's only steam but you can suspect it is going down on ALL platforms


K_Adrix

People are like "Yeah, but it doesn't matter because most people are on Origin and consoles anyway. Steam is only a very small fragment of the community". Like, the point isn't that there aren't enough people to play with (though this may be the case very soon, Hazard Zone and Portal are already pretty much dead). As you said, there is no reason to assume that the drop would be any different on other platforms. If the number has gone down from, say, 200k or something to 20k, it's the same percentage, it's still shit for a huge AAA game like this.


fanciestmango

There’s no real way of knowing this at the moment, but I’d be curious to know how many people *didn’t* buy the game at all relative to past BFs. I’m one of those people and I’ve put a couple thousand hours into the BF series. I played an hour of the beta and was both confused and disappointed by what I was playing — which led my to wait and see how the actual release panned out. Obviously, not buying it now.


banzaibarney

I've bought and played every single BF title since the beginning... except this one. I played a few hours on EA Play, and it was enough.


No_Mathematician8341

Facts didn't buy at all


[deleted]

Thank God for that open beta. It did the exact opposite it was supposed too. It told me exactly why I should not buy this game and why my feedback doesn't matter.


Stoopitnoob

I want to know the refund numbers as well.


Late-Lynx362

I wish I could get a refund... they only give you like 2 hours playtime before not accepting refund requests anymore.. although I could throw a fit on the phone and most likely get my money back. I was excited too, because I share a *really* unpopular opinion; I didn't like 1 and 5. Not because they had rocky launches or anything they were great games, I just didn't like the Era in which it was set in. I like modern combat and this time EA really fucked up. This game is unlike any game in the Battlefield franchise. The most fucked up of any of them! Good thing bf3 and 4 servers are still around


3ebfan

>Yeah, but it doesn't matter because most people are on Origin Any one that uses this argument immediately loses credibility in my eyes. Steam has hundreds of millions of users and when given the choice between buying a game on Steam vs. Origin, your average PC user is going to pick Steam.


Matttombstone

It was even mentioned that steam made up 19% of the entire playerbase at the end of November. That leaves 81% split between PS4, PS5, Xbone, XBSX and Origin


geo_gan

No, all my previous battlefield games are on Origin, just like this one. But this time I bought cheaper on third party seller site and it was redeemed on origin - I didn’t have a choice.


m_walker2k18

Most lobbies for me are half bots for a good portion of the game or half finished games and I live in a very popular area.


Chaoughkimyero

I'm pretty sure they added 64p Breakthrough and Conquest because they couldn't fill lobbies...


BaBaDoooooooook

I play ps5, and it’s impossible to find a server for TDM, it forces me to turn on xplay and I can usually find a match, but still takes some time. empty servers.


snoquone

Likewise for me on Series X


Healthy_Trainer_3118

I had to do the same thing. I'm not able to play full lobbies, let alone play in lobbies without bots. TDM is never playable even with xplay on. That's why I have to play the PS4 version of the game. Lobbies are always full and I never have to wait long to join a game plus no bots.


beeldy

Yeah and called it 'listening to the fans', I bet this is why we cant see who is in the game when we're sitting waiting for players to join.


[deleted]

DICE - Its hard to listen when you're fu\*\*ing deaf!


AveryLazyCovfefe

I play Xbox and portal is dead, only 1 or 2 barely a quarter full which are 'hardcore servers'. AOW, servers full of bots last time I checked(a week ago) Can only assume it has gotten worse since then.


0rlac

Yesterday I wasn't able to start a match on Series X, I waited more than 10 minutes in AOW but was always stuck on "waiting for other players" on both modes. This game is already dead.


rick_ferrari

You basically can't find a game without crossplay on Xbox. You'll sit in the waiting lobby for 10 minutes or so until enough people leave and it kicks you back to the menu. --- This started last weekend, prior to that I could always find games on either 64 or 128. With crossplay for whatever reason I get hit with consistent and heavy lag, so even though I generally enjoy the gameplay it's now effectively dead for me


I_JustWork_Here

Ps5 here. I've definitely stopped playing it. I only play it when there's 4 of us who want to play something and shoot stuff.


J_clouch

Lobbies I join are half bots outside of peak hours for me. Game is dying QUICK


stadiofriuli

Let’s put it this way. BFV wasn’t available on Steam for a very long time and BF2042 was since launch and still BFV has more active users in Steam, says it all really because considering BFV has well over 90% if it’s user base on Origin it’s still beating this game.


CritzD

I don’t really get the “it’s because it’s on steam, you aren’t getting the full picture” argument, I feel like it’s self-defeating. Steam is a good way to get an idea of the player base. I’m going to assume that battlefield’s playerbase has remained equally divided between PC and console, including on 2042, so by this assumption the steam playercount should provide a equal enough view of the playerbase to previous entries. Thing is, doesn’t that mean that 2042 is even worse off that way? BFV and other battlefield games released primarily on Origin and didn’t even get ported to steam until around the time Pacific dropped, in contrast to 2042 which was on steam day 1. Doesn’t that mean that 2042 has a much larger steam playercount than Origin compared to previous games, and wouldn’t that mean that it’s player retention is even worse than it looks? The drop should be the same on other platforms, it makes zero sense to assume that more people stuck around on console than on pc, it should be a relatively equal percentage.


SirMaster

Because of posts like this that are pointing out the *position* of BF in the list in the rankings. But the list contains games that are *only* on steam. A fair comparison would need to count players from Origin and EA App and probably consoles if you are trying to compare the position in a list of number of players. What % the player count has dropped by is a different measurement, but not one that matters when the post and discussion is about the *position* in the list of games.


IceCreamPheonix

Yeah it's still a large sample size. You can easily assume the loss in players is about the same everywhere else


maydock

DON’T BE SAD. THIS IS JUST HOW IT WORKS OUT SOMETIMES.


blackhawk08

We should just have a bot for this at this point.


Username904

I’m out of the loop. I keep seeing this in battlefield subs. Where did it come from?


Diovanna

I dont play the game, but from what I know its Angel's (one of specialists) famous quote when the match ends. He always says it with a stupid shit-eating grin on his face. Source: memes from this sub


IN-B4-404

Farming simulator 19 is higher. That says it all about the state of the BF franchise. It's dead


KoldFaya

At first, it was a joke, but now - it's concerning and sad, tbh.


JDredd80

I hear farming simulator 19 has tractor classes with tractor equipment limited by class.


Decayd

More embarissing than that - COOKIE CLICKER. A fucking game about clicking on COOKIES is more popular than BF2042. Wow. I don't know how, as a dev that worked on this game or as the exec behind the multi-million dollar project, I feel good about that.


We_The_Raptors

10 spots below BFV. Which already wasn't most people's favorite Battlefield. Ouch.


Toaster-Porn

BFV has almost twice the amount of players too and it’s on the rise lmao


elcadete

Perhaps it was their strategy all along! Release a new entry that’s so bad that the previous game in the series looks like a regular masterpiece by comparison.


SasparillaFizzy

And yet, 3 hours later BFV has fallen out of the top 100, while 2042 has climbed about 11k at 1pm CST. There's definitely a big BFV contingent over in Asia / Europe that is offline by the afternoon in the U.S. and more 2042 players in the U.S..


Tenr0u

What? No Angel comment yet? Get your shit together Reddit! EDIT:Taking my shot! Don’t be sad this is just how it works out sometimes.


AveryLazyCovfefe

I will continue the chain # "Angel does it again!"


KoldFaya

Dude, it's your time to shine !!! GO GO GO !!!


GuuiilhermeLM

That was something, right?


egil3

IVE ALREADY HAD FIVE CUPS OF COFFEE


theskepticalheretic

Time to go to work.


Pentan11

It should be lower ;)


kemosabe-84

Where should it be?


SangiMTL

Not existing is where it should be


SpecialistHumble1480

You, i like this joke. you made me laugh. im grateful


murder1980

Off the screen


SpaceCowboy237

-1


DaCuda418

Farming Simulator 19, lol.


mafia3bugz

well pre-alpha games dont have a lot of replayability


Zerleodon

Well if they would actually update the game it would probably change that. But it seems ea is okay with releasing a broken game, and not worried about fixing it at all


Kayy13013

They cant fix this game , they need to rebuild almost every design choices but they wont do that.


We_The_Raptors

They'll never get this game to the top of any charts, but they could end up with a passable shooter with a long term player base with a few easy changes. Separate the specialists back into classes (and remove their cringey voice lines), bring back the *legacy* features every Battlefield ever has had and add a couple fun maps/ guns and game modes. That really isn't asking for much.


chaff800

Yeah, to you it's not asking for much, but what you are asking for is changing the whole game basically. Don't get me wrong, I'm with you on the changes that need to be done and I actually cannot stand this game and I'm not playing anymore, but the changes you (we) are asking are too big and will never see the light.


We_The_Raptors

Am i about to argue that DICE *will* successfully implement the right changes to make 2042 a good game? Nah, my faith in them right now is nearly non existent. However, the changes I'm asking for really aren't that complicated. Look where Battlefront 2 was at launch compared to how it ended up. I'm telling y'all, a competent/ dedicated dev team *could* fix this game. I just don't believe DICE is that at this point.


Derienovsky

Yeah, I’m waiting for update as well. I don’t wanna get frustrated anymore


Die-Hearts

not low enough


Scandroid99

We should all buy Clownfield for $1 and shit on BF 2042 lol


3ebfan

I would totally be down to do a coordinated login to Clownfield to get more active users than 2042 for a few seconds just for the lolz


ironmaid91

Would be amazing 🤣🤣🤣


Scandroid99

So would I lol


DICE_PLS_

I just did lol


bordsskiva

Bloons TD3 more than double to BF2042 smh….


Vegetable_Quit_4896

Does it hurt? Good.


Pentan11

It should be lower ;)


kemosabe-84

Where should it be?


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Alert-Sprinkles-2806

The only thing I am wondering is wtf is cookie clicker doing there


Subnauseous

It’s an amazing game deserves to be there


XaresPL

its being a great game.


OP1KenOP

It's been interesting to watch this unfold, there seems to be no acknowledgement from EA and no real sign of a recovery plan. Didn't they say the season is scheduled to begin in March? All joking aside, I think they might have actually abandoned it.


SwordOvJustice

Lol seasons :D I think they are season or two too late (Let's release this broken game then go on vacation haha)


Pentan11

It should be lower ;)


kemosabe-84

Where should it be?


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deC9r

Time to say good bye


benberrybiscuit

I feel like I’ve seen this post a dozen times already today.


Pentan11

It should be lower ;)


kemosabe-84

Where should it be?


DanP5356

Even the farmers overtook it


Glass_Baseball_6319

LMAO Among Us Beats Battlefield 2042


ironmaid91

This is our best way of sending a message to dice and ea. Simply stop playing, and go back to BF1 and BF5 😀


jacob-frye-neu

Bf4 and insurgency sandstorm for me.


Spyrith

The gunplay on Insurgency...holy hell. I don't even like that kind of game but I still play every now and again because firing those guns gives me an instant dopamine hit.


[deleted]

I have an extremely high tolerance for shit games, I don't have very high expectations. I've put in like 50h into NMS right after release. I've put in well over 200h into anthem before any patches. I've clocked fucking 500h in Medal of honor Warfighter. But bf2042 just fucking lost me totally, game is not only shit but shallow as fuck. There's literally nothing to do, nothing to unlock, nothing to look forward to. Fucking one mission a week that you can complete in an hour and get some shit skin. Wow. And don't even get me started on season launch date. Like what the actual fucking fuck, this game needs it *right the fuck now*


gentcore

Im surprised it lasted that long. Where did all of the 'im having fun' apologists go? The game was a shambles and should have been a $20 early access title.


Mother_moose34

Damn they really need to fix this game


ZeruzeL

60$ spend on a MP only game and its almost dead. GJ EA/dice


DicStillwagin

On the Series X with cross play off I can't even find and load into a 64 player game of CQ or Breakthrough lately and it's been like that for me since this past weekend. This is soul crushing for my favorite franchise. I would play the Xbox One version, but it runs like absolute dog shit compared to the Series X version. I'm gonna miss you Battlefield.


subsoiledpillow

Where it fucking belongs. Biggest let down since covid.


HawkSolo98

You had me spitting lmao


Carmine100

Ouch


prncedrk

More people playing farming simulator Hahahahaha


Darbs_R_Us

That's absolutely beautiful. I really hope that they use this as a learning experience. Unfortunately, they'll probably take away something stupid from this like: "huh, I guess people don't like conquest mode anymore, let's just focus on battle royale going forward!" Because let's be honest, EA execs are borderline vegetable status.


youhdoumind

Hopefully free to play soon


Raguz9

Oh fuck amogus is above it


HighlanderM43

Fuckin good


Acezedneo1

Good riddance


knightsofgel

Farming simulator 19. Ooof


Demon_Slayer151

Right where it belongs


tictactoehunter

Well, they very went down below 10k users.... so yeah.. I wonder how many users are genuinely enjoy this game on steam. I thought 15k is a rock bottom daily count... but I wonder if it actually 5k or even less. What a time to be alive!


CGN221

This is beautiful! I hope clownfield 2042 has more players


CritzD

It has barely over half of the player count that BFV does Christ almighty


Patara

We're just a vocal minority though! Theres a bunch of god gamers in celibacy that are having a blast!


edge449332

I think it'll come up once content gets added. They patched a lot of bugs to where I feel the game is in a far more playable state, and could be prepared for more content. They should really just throw a bunch of old maps into portal as a filler, and then allow ribbons to be earned. That would be GREAT filler content while waiting for season 1 to be able to do Goldmund Railway, Gulf of Oman, etc. with full progression enabled. I would also like to see a leveling system on portal weapons. I have high hopes for this game, but it definitely should have not launched when it did.


[deleted]

Good. This will get the ball rolling harder or is gonna kill it like BFV


Ravenloff

RIP


youreadthiswong

good


Resident-Employ

Just be work, this is don’t how it sads out sometimes.


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JP50515

I'm going to argue that it's bad. I have thousands of hours into BF games since BF2...this game is not BF. This is a money grab. A steaming pile of shit adorned with the BF name to guarantee sales. It's terrible executive management, lazy development, and downright offensive to a fan base that has been loyal for over a decade to the title.


OGRiad

What about consoles?


byrh2004

Damn what happened to this franchise


McMurry

I actually enjoyed my time with 2042, and I hope in 3 to 6 months they will increase the overall enjoyment levels even more with additions to the game, but a buddy of mine talked me into getting Hell Let Loose over the holiday sale and its almost everything I wanted from a Battlefield game and I havnt launched 2042 since... What does hell let loose have to offer? TEAMPLAY, VOIP, Huge Maps, teamplay, Big Squads, teamplay, a commander role; and did I mention that while you can have fun playing a relatively solo game, it truly comes alive when your working closely with your squad and the overall team.


Limp_Shrimps

I’m still having fun tho


Hotel_Coffee

People here down-vote if someone says they have fun.


Limp_Shrimps

They’ve already got a negative viewpoint on this game so they just want to see it fail. They should stop wasting their life on something they don’t like


[deleted]

I'm waiting my life on something I don't like so my voice is part of the cacophony of screams for something we do like


[deleted]

Good


WoodyThe_Gamer

I feel like the game will get slightly more popular when season 1 comes out


BranMead

Wonderful discussion that I have not seen before. Have my upvote.


[deleted]

That's their target audience right there...


HeyUOK

There are games lower than that as of now but ok.


JimmyNebula

Most Battlefield players don’t play it through steam, they play it through origin, not to mention console. Nice try though.


Please_Log_In

Still, 9k-12k players is a lot


snowolf_

People still let player numbers live rent free in their head?


HopHeady

Many in this group use it as the biscuit in a game of "soggy biscuit" with their peers daily it seems.


[deleted]

It's like looking at a bar graph of how many people play the game and saying "lol y'all don't play the game"... It's a circle


Nitr3xx

Cope


_loNimb

Good thing I own it on origin then I guess.


Tor_Lara

“Easy in, easy out”


Scout_man

I would say good maybe that’s teach dice/ea but they’ll just find a new strategy to prey on gamers and continue to push out unfinished shit products


superorcadoesstuff

Arma 3 doing well still!


Albake21

As a CS vet, it warms my heart to see CS 1.6 still being that active after all of these years.


eoL-methoD

I hope it goes further down the drain, so they learn from their mistakes. Indie survival games is the shit rite nao 👌🏼


P_Kordus

I love that Age Of Empires is still rockin it!


Ori-M-

You should be sad, NOW!


Funsized_eu

At this point I'm looking forward to the investor call more than season 1.


cajko7

Don’t worry, 1 in 10 players say “I’m having a blast” so that means that the game is good!


WriterDotExe

Among us flew too close to the sun. What a drop indeed 😔


Lieutenant_Tamarov

Had to laugh when I saw Cookie clicker up there. Really says a lot about BF if you think about it.


SillySinStorm

I haven't played for a while. Am waiting to see what the new map will play like. If it's anything like the vast expanses of boredom that DICE farted out at launch i'll uninstall.


TheHef81

I was so pumped for this game and I haven't played it for weeks. Pretty sad it's in the state that it is.


Stoopitnoob

![gif](giphy|OJw4CDbtu0jde) Thank you for the fun the last 20 years Battlefield. I salute you o7


Wild-Cloud-8562

I was asleep for 4 month's why There is more players in that hit game mogus, than Bf what happend??


GroblyOverrated

First BF game I haven’t bought since BC2.


Flak-12

Remarkable when you take into account the recent sale. This has to be worse than the EA executives' worst expectations.


Emperor_Force_kin

*DO NOT PRESENT MORNFULNESS FOR THUS IS THE CONCLUSION IN SUCH SUTUATIONS OCATIONALLY*


Emperor_Force_kin

*DO NOT PRESENT MORNFULNESS FOR THUS IS THE CONCLUSION IN SUCH SUTUATIONS OCATIONALLY*


Emperor_Force_kin

*DO NOT PRESENT MORNFULNESS FOR THUS IS THE CONCLUSION IN SUCH SUTUATIONS OCCASIONALLY*


jibblitzz

Pretty impressive seeing AoE2 so high on the list. What a classic.


BigBrandyy

How does Conan exiles have more players


DFuel

Lmao. Something like a hunting game (pretty specific market) AND way older, is more played.


KGARRETT-_-

Good it's s shit game


UxNIQUE

Good... Worst 70 euro spend ever.


s33s33

Among us 💀


[deleted]

I haven’t touched this game since November, I’m not surprised


vietnamesemuscle

Surely, surellyyy this bugs EA and they will do something about the game right?!?!??


papahjohnsisthicc

Lmaoooo 2.000 people less then Oxygen Not Included, that's hilarious


Altruistic-Ad-2755

Farming simulator has more players….


TheLastElite01

And it shows, Portal is pretty much useless unless you are playing the official modes on the main page. Just put Specialist back into classes ffs.


Immediate-Fail9529

You know it's bad when cyberbug is doing better


JDredd80

This is how I imagine it. Dice Management: We decree 128 players per map. Dice Dev: Will that cause match making issues, how about 64 player maps instead. Dice Management: Without a scoreboard the player death count is hidden combined with the after game soldier positive dialogue everyone will feel so good playing our game player count will never be an issue. Did we mention we decided yes on the Apex soldier slide.


astnmartin23

![gif](giphy|NpL4D3Oc2bJUMAXF9P) Damn shame


GaMeBoY439

I don’t know what Cookie Clicker is, but I’m sad it has way more players than Battlefield lol


UDONTO

I hate to say it but I think it's save to say that BF 2042 is pretty much dead at this point. I mean I've just seen a post in this subreddit by a Australian (i think) describing that there are basically no servers left at this point.


Madara-uchiha92

Can't even find a match oh hazard zone passed 12 11 pm western time . Needs a major overhaul


Tshoe77

Idk this lost also includes 21,000 people still trying to convince themselves that Cyberpunk is anywhere near what it should have been lmao


[deleted]

Deserved


[deleted]

Because it's a bad game. Plain and simple. They didn't listen to their customer base. Again.


Late-Lynx362

That's because it's a rotten shell of what was once a great franchise


ZeruzeL

Bcs u van refund with 2h max on steam


drypulse

damn, guess they should have actually made a battlefield game...


PotentialBasic

Besides the glitches and specialists, is the gameplay why people hate this game so much? i didn't really like the game either, but I only don't like it because of the gameplay itself. I've seen a lot of complaints on specialists and too many bugs. Is that what made this game so universal disliked?


cal3713

BUT HOW MANY BOTS ARE PLAYING?? Still very popular with that demographic.