19,000,000 new Battlefront 2 players
That's a lot of fresh fish Be sure to give them a good welcome when you see 'em 😉 https://www.pcgamer.com/over-19-million-players-grabbed-a-free-copy-of-star-wars-battlefront-2/
Forum Discussion
19 million players 😮
That's a lot!
- @Player55 yeah its a lot. Including the already large player bases on console, there was probably 30 million active players or more.
@ArchAngeL-PCXPS+ had the game for free for an entire month last year in June or July so that really helped out. Player base has been tHrIvInG ever since. Xbox just needs a free week or month and the vision will be complete.
@UNL1M1T3D_P0W3R The game is free on PC and greatly reduced on Xbox already I think it’s $10 or $14 now and even less with Access so it might as well be free.
EA pulled a large group of new players by combining the free & reduced structure shortly after TROS release and then with the release of Mando on + you’re seeing a lot of franchise fans picking up the game.
Tens of millions of new players is nice but the game is 3 years old; one should also consider why and how the game failed to capture that audience over the last 3 years. The answer to that is the gaming community knew that this title has been a struggle throughout its life. Once the game was free or near free people were willing to deal with that because they weren’t paying full game rate price so if it’s clumsy “oh well”.
The key is how many play over the long term and I’ll tell you that those numbers will drop off. One mistake I see a lot is people comparing the game as it is now to when it was at launch. The reason this is a mistake is because it ignores the improvements made mid-life that saw the game far better than it was at launch. Comparing now to its arguably best period gameplay-wise it’s not hard to see why the game couldn’t pull these numbers without a promo price.
here’s to hoping BF 3 will be done better.
