Battlefield 6 Continues to Backslide<\/p>\n
When Battlefield 6 dropped in October, it was to a stellar reception that praised the game\u2019s multiplayer platform to no end. The single-player portion was a take-it-or-leave-it delivery, and REDSEC<\/a> turned out to be a fledgling battle royale that failed to make waves, but the multiplayer element of the game felt solid.<\/p>\n Since the game launched, interest has waned as Battlefield Studios<\/a> has watched its player count slowly collapse. There was hope that players would either return to <\/strong>Battlefield 6 or discover <\/strong>the game with the deployment of the season two update, but that hasn\u2019t been the case.<\/p>\n If we use Steam as a representative example, we can see that the player count hit 92,281 as the second season was released. But on a random Sunday afternoon on January 25th, with no new content drops<\/strong>, the game hit 97,959 players on the same platform. The game jumped somewhat in the last 24 hours, but not enough to dub the new season a resurgence<\/strong>.<\/p>\n For reference, the game reached 747,440 concurrent players upon release in October 2025.<\/p>\n To put this into further perspective, ARC Raiders was released just a couple of weeks after <\/strong>Battlefield 6 and had a peak player count of 481,966 users on Steam. In the last 24 hours, it hit a peak of 215,978 users.<\/p>\n We can then turn our attention to viewership, which hasn\u2019t fared much better.<\/p>\n Last year, Battlefield 6 hit a whopping 868,520 concurrent viewers, a peak that few games have managed to achieve over the years. Once upon a time, more than 17,000 streamers were broadcasting Battlefield 6 at the same time.<\/p>\n In the 24 hours that saw the arrival of season two, we saw the peak viewer count jump from about 3,000 users to 27,000, leaving Battlefield 6 as the 75th most-viewed game on Twitch. It\u2019s possible we\u2019d see more growth going into the weekend, which is when around 30% more people <\/strong>tend to consume Battlefield content, but it\u2019s unlikely.<\/p>\n Using ARC Raiders as another comparison point, we see the peak of 372,816 viewers at launch holds much firmer with a 24-hour peak of 116,000, which is about typical for Embark Studios\u2019 extraction adventure title.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not Highguard levels of implosion, but Battlefield 6 players fear the counts will continue to slide as folks lose interest in the game that was designed to recapture the excitement of a floundering franchise.<\/p>\n Have you returned to Battlefield 6 since the new season dropped? Let us know what you think about the changes on the Insider Gaming Discord server<\/a>.<\/p>\n For more Insider Gaming coverage, check out the news that Highguard was backed by Tencent<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771434072_179_image-31.png\")
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