"Millions Are Playing Every Week": Star Wars Battlefront 2's Resurgence Is Still Going, As Impressive Player Numbers Are Holding Steady

"Millions Are Playing Every Week": Star Wars Battlefront 2's Resurgence Is Still Going, As Impressive Player Numbers Are Holding Steady

From TheGamer (Written by Joshua Robertson) on | OpenCritic

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Star Wars Battlefront 2 has been enjoying a resurgence recently, most likely spurred on by May 4 and all the Star Wars-related shenaningans that surround the day. Earlier this week, the game went from around 1k players on Steam to over 5k on May 4, and that number then jumped again to 6k a day later. Ever since, the game has been hitting 6k rather reliably, almost hitting 8k players a few days ago.

Those are just the Steam numbers, but it's safe to assume that the rise in players will be trending similarly on other platforms, and Steam is actually the place where Battlefront 2 is played the least. You'll more than likely find more people playing on console or on PC through EA's own app, but unfortunately, these platforms don't have the same tracking features that Steam has in SteamDB.

Thankfully, we have insiders to give us all of those juicy details. Earlier today, an insider called BattlefrontUpdates on Twitter - who is generally regarded as trustworthy within the Battlefront community - claimed that Star Wars Battlefront 2 players numbers spiked to over 100,000 players across all platforms on May 4, and...

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