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EA and Battlefield Studios’ Battlefield 6 aims to bring the series back to its core with overhauled destruction, no stupid crossover skins and a return to classic classes. While the game isn’t set to release until October 10th, the ongoing early access beta is already proving extremely popular.
At the time of writing, the ongoing Battlefield 6 Open Beta Early Access—which players need either a code or pre-existing BF Labs membership to access—is doing huge numbers across all platforms. In fact, it may even be one of the best-performing games in the series’ history.
Battlefield 6 beta players beat Bad Company 2
At the time of writing, Battlefield 6’s open beta has hit a still-climbing peak of 315,140 concurrent players on Steam alone. Combined with EA App players, Xbox Series players and PS5 players, the true player count is likely hundreds of thousands of players higher than this count.
On Twitter, Battlefield: Bad Company, Bad Company 2 and Battlefield 3 lead designer David Goldfarb commented on the massive player numbers of the ongoing betas with a simple “good god”.
When asked what the peak concurrent player count of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 almost 15 years ago, Goldfarb revealed said: “I don’t recall but i think it was 200-350k ish”. Despite being a PC-focused game, Bad Company 2 was also a huge hit on console and real player counts were never actually revealed.
Battlefield 6 is also EA’s biggest push for the series on Steam. Previously, the biggest Steam launch for the series was 2018’s WW2-themed shooter Battlefield V which hit a total of 114,017 players, around a third of the ongoing BF6 beta.
With classic classes, fantastic gunplay and an overhauled Portal map-maker with its own server browser, Battlefield 6 is off to a great start. However, the real question is whether the game will be able to maintain these high player counts when it actually releases.
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