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Tom’s Hardware
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Jowi Morales

Battlefield 6 has an epic launch bug where it fails to recognize that the game is already installed — EA boss suggests one affected player to ‘refund and buy on Steam’

Battlefield 6 cover art showing a combat scene.

Battlefield 6 is shaping up to be one of the biggest AAA game launches this year, but the game’s opening day is far from perfect. Users who purchased the title on the EA App encountered a glitch, with the game indicating that both multiplayer and the single-player campaign are still to be installed, even though both are already present on the user’s PC, as reported by ComputerBase. It took three hours after the game dropped for EA to acknowledge the error, and another three hours to fix the issue.

This had led to frustration among players, especially with the massive hype for the game. Battlefield 6 boss Vince Zampella was also miffed with what’s happening, going as far as posting on X saying, “I have yelled about ea app people. Any suggestions on next levels of escalation?”

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