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UBBE16
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13 hours ago

The problem with Battlefield 6 and the communities

This isn’t another “bring back the server browser” post.
It’s about Battlefield losing the ecosystem that kept it alive between releases.

Right now, BF6 splits the game in two:

Matchmaking servers — where 95% of players are, but no one can find, return to, or build around.
Portal servers — where communities try to build something real, but servers shut down even when set to persistent, get buried under bot farms, and are invisible to most players, doesn't fill up with real players, is hidden among temporary, grind, fun and other one time non serious portal servers.

This design breaks what made Battlefield work for decades.
In BF3, BF4, and BF1, communities ran  servers, balanced teams, built memories, friendship, and turned random one time sale buyers into loyal fans who preordered the next game.

Now those tools are gone.
No visibility. No stability. No way for serious, non-XP-farm communities to grow.

The fix is simple and benefits everyone:
– Let us pay for guaranteed persistent servers with uptime, visibility, and a way to bypass the capacity limit. Serious hosters would gladly pay for this!
– Show official and community servers in the same browser.
– Allow team-switching to the losing side and basic admin tools for balance.

Look at Battlefield 3, 4, and 1 — that system worked.
Communities kept Battlefield alive for years. You just need to let them again.

4 Replies

  • I hope DICE sees this and does something about it. Finding communities and meeting new friends to play and laugh with made battlefield so rememberable for me, ive made memories i will probably never forget.

  • This will decide if I'll buy bf6 and recommend it to friends. 

    We need visible community servers and EA needs them, too. Otherwise this game will be just one shooter among many. 

    Let's save this game together!

  • SkadiiK's avatar
    SkadiiK
    Seasoned Newcomer
    2 hours ago

    I totally agree.

    I was  trying to play with some friends the whole weekend and we always had issues to find a suitable server and to play all together.
    We never had this problem in other games as BF4, BF3 or BF1, since you could find a server that suited you and play many fun and balanced games.

    I hope DICE hear our feedback and implements community servers where I am sure many people  will be more than happy to pay for it. As Ubbe mentioned, communities kept Battlefield alive for many years.

    For my part, I found BF1 game randomly. I liked the atmosphere and the servers and that's why I remained there. Thanks to the people and the communities that kept the servers alive with good and fun games, I started to preorder other games as BFV, BF20242 and so on, becoming my favorite games to play and support and recommending it to friends with whom right now we play.

    So we hope we can keep having fun as we used to do it and it doesn't get ruined 🙏

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    Portal is a complete failure. It’s built around quick, throwaway servers that people use for XP farming, not for real communities that want to run proper servers long-term.

    You can’t even start a server half the time because the system says capacity is full. If you finally get one running, it disappears or resets when it’s empty for a while. There’s no way to add admins or moderators to help manage it, no option to switch teams, and the ping can be terrible depending on where the server randomly spawns.

    To make it worse, your server shows up in the same list as all the grind and AI farm servers, so serious servers get buried and no one finds them.

    Everything about this shows that EA completely misunderstood what Battlefield communities actually want. They clearly thought Portal would be used for casual, one-off matches — not by people trying to build real, long-term servers like in BF3, BF4, or BF1. If that’s what they expected, they never would’ve made something this limited and unsustainable.

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