Battlefield 2042 already on SALE after ONE month - Player count drops 80%, soon to be lower than Battlefield V currently

[suicidalfranco]

20 hours ago, Blademaster91 said:

I agree the game should've been cancelled because of the design decisions EA made, and they still didn't get the hint that most people didn't want a battle royale mode after the firestorm mode in BFV wasn't very popular.  I've heard that a lot of developers left after BFV, and there were plans for regular soldier designs with Battlefield 2042 but EA pushed for specialist characters instead. And DICE wanted to make Battlefront 3 or Bad Company 3, but EA said no and wanted a game that they could sell cosmetics and paid DLC season passes with.

I think the game might be decent if specialists are optional, and change some of the map design because most of them are terrible, and if 64 players is the default because game performance is bad with 128 players. Even some basic features an FPS game should have like a server browser or being able to see your stats but EA doesn't seem to care enough to add them.

and nevermind the fact that EA already has a reasonably successful BR under their belt in the form of apex

[TetraSky]

Meanwhile Halo Infinite be like....

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Yet somehow the curve of each games are about the same.

[Junaid Hameed]

On 12/17/2021 at 1:25 AM, Eaglerino said:

I doubt the playerbase will die anytime soon. EA said this was Battlefield's biggest ever launch and I'm sure it's alive and well on consoles. Then again.. why pay for 2042 when you can also get a feature-missing multiplayer game, Halo Infinite, completely for free instead? It might be missing all chat and a career stats page, but at least it's not a glitch ridden trash fest

and those who play it seem to like it ALOT.

[Master Disaster]

Up next: EA announces the closure of DICE, most employees fired, the rest transferred over to making item packs for The Sims 4.....

[suicidalfranco]

4 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Up next: EA announces the closure of DICE, most employees fired, the rest transferred over to making item packs for The Sims 4.....

Weird that no one went Cities Skyline on the Sims and made an alternative that trumps everything EA has to offer.

[Giganthrax]

On 12/18/2021 at 8:30 PM, TetraSky said:

Meanwhile Halo Infinite be like....

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Yet somehow the curve of each games are about the same.

Halo Infinite is an actual working game that doesn't have major gamebreaking bugs and terrible design choices. It's also F2P, so people leaving isn't actually a huge problem for Microsoft as long as they can maintain a stable population, whereas people quickly leaving BF probably means they almost certainly refunded the game. 

[steelo]

On 12/16/2021 at 2:47 PM, maartendc said:

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Battlefield 2042, only about 1 month after it's initial release, is already on sale at 34% off on Steam, as reported by Aroged. The game is also free to play this weekend on Steam, a DRASTIC measure taken by EA to desperately get players to try the game.

 

This is not surprising, as in related news all over the web, the played count has already dropped from a high of 100,000+ on Steam, to less than 20,000 (a drop of 80% for you math wizzards out there). This means that soon, the CURRENT player count for Battlefield V will actually surpass the playercount of Battlefield 2042.

 

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My thoughts

I knew Battlefield 2042 was poorly received, but the player count dropping from 100,000+ to only 18,561 as the 24-hour peak on Steam is dysmal. No wonder EA is already putting it on sale and throwing in a free weekend, in a desperate attempt to get more players on board. At this rate, the game will be as good as dead in a few weeks.

 

What is suprising is that Battlefield V, which was initially hated by fans over misguided marketing and cosmetics, is actually doing relatively OK. For a 3 year old game to surpass a AAA game that is only a month old is SHOCKING.

 

Battlefield 2042 deserves the hate in my opinion. They had good hype built up. But the game is just un-Battlefield with the specialists, the maps are WAY too big even for 128 players, the game lacks content and maps, and it is a buggy mess. Even if they fix some of the issues, I don't think it will ever be a FUN game sadly.

 

It is not surprising people are returning to older Battlefield titles. I tried Battlefield 2042 on the Free Game Pass trial, and didn't even finish the trial period. I went right back to playing Battlefield 1 and Battlefield V. Battlefield 1 was always regarded as a great game. Battlefield V in my opinion didn't deserve all the hate it got. It was and is actually a good game. Buggy at launch, and lacking content. But after those issues were fixed, with the addition of the pacific maps, it is a very good Battlefield game, and a ton of fun still.

 

Sources

https://www.aroged.com/2021/12/16/battlefield-2042-steam-launches-free-weekend-and-goes-on-sale/

 

https://gamingintel.com/battlefield-5-player-count-overtake-battlefield-2042/

 

https://steamcharts.com/app/1517290

This is music to my ears...EA is a greedy company that has (mostly) been putting out trash at premium prices.

[steelo]

On 12/16/2021 at 3:13 PM, Blademaster91 said:

I'm kinda surprised Battlefield 2042 is on sale, but $39.99 isn't cheap enough because Battlefield 2042 just isn't Battlefield anymore, it's become a hero battle royale shooter as there isn't any teamwork because of specialists and you can pick what items you want instead of picking a class and helping your team. Also no server browser, or in game scoreboard, match making is random so you might end up playing the same map over and over again.

And the game breaking bugs ruined the launch, the game should've been delayed but I suspect the higher ups at EA and Dice pushed the game to come out around the same time COD Vanguard did.

 

Thank you...I thought I was just getting old...LOL

 

I played a few hours during the free trial and it felt like a bunch of buffoons running around with their heads cut off just randomly shooting everything that moves. Absolutely zero strategy - It just is NOT fun to me.