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Battlefield 6 is currently available in a semi-closed beta form, with anyone who obtained a code able to join the beta today and tomorrow. The rest of the public will gain access on August 9-10 and again from August 14-17.
Despite this confusing, not entirely closed format, hundreds of thousands of players have jumped through every necessary hoop to play Battlefield 6 as soon as possible. Today’s beta launch already saw concurrent player numbers on Steam surpass the all-time high of Battlefield 2042 by a significant margin.
We anticipated high beta numbers due to server fill-ups yesterday, but no one expected them to reach this height. According to SteamDB, Battlefield 2042’s highest concurrent player count on Steam was 107,376 players, achieved two years after its launch and about 2,000 more than at launch.
The Battlefield 6 beta has already reached a peak of 334,549 concurrent players, with 303,222 currently in the beta on Steam. This is a clear indication that many were eager for a new Battlefield game that could capture similar attention and hold the series’ former prominence in the shooter genre.
This early success is a great start for a game EA has invested heavily in, with four studios working together to ensure it becomes the comeback-kid the series and EA desperately need.
The true test will come when the game launches later this year in October. If its launch can not only repeat but surpass these numbers and sustain them for longer than a day, that would be even better.
If you missed out on the beta weekend but want to know more about how Battlefield 6 plays, check out Kai Tatsumoto’s impressions from Wccftech. Kai tested it last week during EA’s multiplayer reveal event.
