After becoming the best-selling game of 2025, Battlefield 6 started slowly declining and losing much of its massive player base, with many fans citing a lack of proper post-launch support that'd keep them around. That led to a shocking round of layoffs across Battlefield Studios, and it now seems that EA wants to win some players back through a free-to-play event.
Battlefield 6 peaked at almost 750,000 concurrent players on Steam at launch, becoming by far the most successful game in the franchise and definitely the most successful game of 2025. It outsold most of its competition, carved out a huge chunk of the market just for itself, and established total dominance over the shooter genre—a reign that was rather short-lived.
