Battlefront 2 Has Returned… – WGB

EA’s Star Wars: Battlefront 2 (that’s the brand new one, not the previous one) is having a good time proper now, as a giant surge of gamers has resulted in it getting its highest participant depend since 2021. That’s not unhealthy for a recreation that hasn’t been up to date in 5 years.

Over on Steam, the game has been seeing a steady increase in players since earlier this month. For fairly a number of years now, the sport has usually seen a most concurrent participant depend of some thousand on Steam, often venturing as much as 4,000 or so. However within the final 24 hours, it has hit a concurrent participant depend of 9,777. That’s not far off of its better of 10,489 concurrent gamers, which it achieved again in 2021. Contemplating it has been steadily rising all month, there’s an opportunity that it would really beat that over the weekend.

So what’s up with the random flood of gamers? Properly, it’s a mix of issues. Andor simply started its second season on the tail finish of April, and whereas the remainder of the Star Wars universe media has been reasonably…er, blended, Andor’s first season was nearly universally cherished. Season 2 appears to be heading the identical manner.

In the meantime, there’s been a giant step-up of individuals on social media encouraging individuals to get again into Battlefront 2. Since you may decide up the sport nowadays on sale repeatedly for £5-10, that’s not an enormous ask, and it appears individuals have responded.

In fact, we don’t actually know what kind of console numbers the sport is bringing in proper now. All I can say with certainty is that Battlefront 2 has risen up the gross sales rankings on each PlayStation and Xbox.

I’ve heard from a dependable supply that Star Wars Battlefront II spiked to over 100,000 concurrent gamers after Could 4th, and it is nonetheless holding sturdy at 80–90k!

Meaning hundreds of thousands are enjoying each week — Unimaginable for a recreation that hasn’t had an replace in 5 years. pic.twitter.com/1JEQyz3dA6

— BattlefrontUpdates (@SWBFUpdates) May 20, 2025

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On the extra speculative facet, BattlefrontUpdates on X says {that a} dependable supply has informed them that the sport spiked at over 100,000 concurrent gamers throughout all platforms on Could 4, and since then has been persistently managing 80-90k. Different individuals have claimed even greater concurrent counts.

Followers over on Reddit wish to attempt to use this momentum to get a brand new Star Wars: Battlefront made. Whereas it appears unlikely it’ll occur, who is aware of? Generally sufficient fan momentum can get a mission off the bottom.

Battlefront 2 struggled to actually make an impression, regardless of individuals being initially very excited to play the sport. It launched in 2017 and proved immediately divisive amongst followers. Chief complaints have been the loot-boxes and annoying microtransactions in a full-priced recreation, and long-time followers of the basic Battlefront video games have been aggravated at how slim the content material felt in comparison with the older video games. On the time, individuals calculated that it might take round 40 hours of enjoying to unlock a single hero with out paying additional. In the meantime, people who did pull out their pockets have been gaining main gameplay benefits over people who didn’t.

As for me, I’m downloading my copy of the sport once more on PlayStation. Hand me a lightsabre, ‘cos some bitches must be taught in regards to the Power by power.