Season 2 a huge success (or not) compared to S1

I am surprised this is not getting much attention, but Season 2 beat Season 1's launch!

Now that we are through the first week of Season 2, we can use Steam Charts to get an idea of how many additional players are now playing the game compared to the first week of Season 1's launch.

Using the peak active players for every day of the week for 7 days, Season 1 had 98,688 total peak players cumulatively over the course of a week. The best day was a peak of 14,989 on Day 3.

For Season 2, the total was 99,277, an increase of 589 players over a course of a week (0.6%!). So a daily increase of 84 players! Season 2 had a peak of 16,856 players on launch day (Day 1).

Remember that Steam is only roughly 10% of the game's population, so take any of these numbers and multiply by 10 to get the total game's player count. Using that complex equation, we can estimate that the game had roughly 840 more players active, at peak, per day for the first week (+/- 50). That is 13 more 64-player servers live at peak concurrently.

Gaming sites and magazines need to pick up on this and extend the hype.

The player count is increasing!

American Truck Simulator, here we come!

discussion

Spinner1981
3 years ago
@CyberDyme if they got rid of specialists (i know they wont) and brought back classes with restricted weapons and gadgets, hurried and released the rest of the renewed launch maps sooner rather than later, and added more destruction across all launch and new maps, it could be so much more (but obvs still not on par with say BF 4).

But alas, for some crazy reason the above won't happen. Which is a shame. With the above mentioned, this alone would make 2042 sooo much better and most likely bring back more players.

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AuMordum
Seasoned Hotshot
3 years ago
It's because it's *. Unless you just love running for hours sliding and bunny hopping everywhere anyways. All the vehicles are dead boring and limp. Jets / helo / tank, they're just weak little graphics at this point. this isn't cod, this is a war game, except again all the vehicles suck and couldn't kill a single soldier unless they're overcharging the guns or kamikazing into transports. This * is extremely boring now, because every whined long and loud enough to wet every single vehicle down. *yawn*
ATFGunr
Legend
3 years ago
@Adamonic It’s dropping price and lack of new competition is likely a factor. They’ve also fixed a lot of the game breaking garbage we’ve suffered through after paying full price. So yay new players!
GrizzGolf
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
Ill take new players.
CyberDyme
3 years ago
@Adamonic wrote:
I am surprised this is not getting much attention, but Season 2 beat Season 1's launch!
... <nuked...>
Gaming sites and magazines need to pick up on this and extend the hype.
The player count is increasing!
Hi @Adamonic ,
Though I would want to see the rebound of BF2042, reality and the related hard numbers does not indicate this to happen in terms of players coming back in meaningful ways. And factually, then the season 1 release brought back more players in a more substantial and consistent way than what we now have seen for season 2.
So unfortunately, your wording is correct. It is only hype...
True, we have seen over few days that the absolute peak number of players was up a few thousands, but it was not sustained at all, as the average number of BF2042 players is now lower here since season2 release versus in the period after season1 release.
Typical due to players finally giving it a second chance, but shortly they find out that still the vast majority of issues they had with this game at original launch are still there and no sustained fun to be found in playing the game. So yes, they quickly checked in after the season2 launch and we saw a brief peak, but they quickly left again.
And the total numbers are still abysmal, here just less than one year after launch. We are struggling to fill servers even with just the standard game mode and size across all regions. That a few thousand more players are checking in now is not going to move the needle in any meaningful way unfortunately.
Spinner1981
3 years ago
@CyberDyme if they got rid of specialists (i know they wont) and brought back classes with restricted weapons and gadgets, hurried and released the rest of the renewed launch maps sooner rather than later, and added more destruction across all launch and new maps, it could be so much more (but obvs still not on par with say BF 4).

But alas, for some crazy reason the above won't happen. Which is a shame. With the above mentioned, this alone would make 2042 sooo much better and most likely bring back more players.
Adamonic
Legend
3 years ago
@CyberDyme You can't use the 30-day average to compare Season 2 to anything since there hasn't been 30 days in Season 2 yet? Once we hit October, you can use that to compare to the previous months.

From what it looks like, less players are leaving, so the numbers shouldn't drop to the same levels.

Adding something like a Server Browser would be huge for them, too bad that is not in the cards anymore.
Adamonic
Legend
3 years ago
@ATFGunr very true, but anyway we can get them, and get them to stay. There is another game launching next month with a BR mode in November. Hopefully, there are enough players playing to withstand that launch, otherwise, it might get ugly.
Prof3ss0r_M1k3
3 years ago
let's see what happens with season 3 which will drop during the holiday season with TONS of competition for attention/time
CantGetRight
3 years ago
A certain game, I won't name it, is coming out in October that will give 2042 competition. Will have to see how it holds up after that.
Adamonic
Legend
3 years ago
@CantGetRightyou can't talk about other games or you will get the b word. No other game exists that will impact the player count in this game. It is like Fight Club.