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Just the fact that previous Battlefields still have the dedicated player bases that they do shows they really missed an opportunity with Portal, they could have scooped a lot of those players if it had been implemented properly. I mean BF1942 still has a few hundred players active playing daily and that game is 20 years old.
And BFV and BF1 still regularly outperform BF2042 on Steam-charts, hell BF1 has almost 52,000 players right now compared to 5,400 or so for BF2042!
- RayD_O13 years agoHero
@Ironhead841 wrote:Just the fact that previous Battlefields still have the dedicated player bases that they do shows they really missed an opportunity with Portal, they could have scooped a lot of those players if it had been implemented properly. I mean BF1942 still has a few hundred players active playing daily and that game is 20 years old.
And BFV and BF1 still regularly outperform BF2042 on Steam-charts, hell BF1 has almost 52,000 players right now compared to 5,400 or so for BF2042!
Those player stats speak volumes of just how badly the decisions they made with BF2042 has backfired. ☹️
- 3 years ago
Wasn’t BF3 32 players? That’s why metro kind of worked. 64 metro was terrible.
- Anobix3 years agoSeasoned Ace@CPT_GASLIGHT BF3 on PC was 64. the Bad Company games were limited to 32
- BigShottt3 years agoSeasoned Ace
@RayD_O1 wrote:Those player stats speak volumes of just how badly the decisions they made with BF2042 has backfired. ☹️Yea, Portal could have been the savior for 2042's numbers...but they would have needed alot of reimaged content for Portal by now, but they apparently just do not have enough manpower to have made that possible this year. It was a choice this time last year....either try to save the game directly, or indirectly and they chose directly...a tough decision to be sure, and you know what they say about hindsight.
IMO, it would be very interesting to know now, if they knew then what they know now... would they choose to save via Portal, or would they choose the same way all over again? ...interesting.
- Anobix3 years agoSeasoned Ace
<Letterkenny voice> To be faaaaiiiiiir </>
BF1 just was 80%+ off on steam IIRC so would explain the huge bump in player numbers. But either way, the numbers that get regularly posted for BF1+V are more than what 2042 has outside of major patch dates.
But absolutely agreed. There was huge potential to consistently have new maps added to main 2042 and "old" maps added to Portal+2042 but that ball was completely dropped.