{"id":1280711,"date":"2026-03-21T05:53:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T05:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Q72KQmmmZoDkT4hGCD7XiN"},"modified":"2026-03-21T05:53:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T05:53:01","slug":"the-battlefield-6-beta-has-broken-call-of-dutys-steam-player-count-record-surging-past-half-a-million-concurrents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-battlefield-6-beta-has-broken-call-of-dutys-steam-player-count-record-surging-past-half-a-million-concurrents\/","title":{"rendered":"The Battlefield 6 beta has broken Call of Duty&#8217;s Steam player count record, surging past half a million concurrents"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>First spotted by <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BFBulletin\/status\/1954261704747155671\" target=\"_blank\">Battlefield Bulletin<\/a> on Twitter, <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/battlefield-6-guide\/#section-when-is-the-battlefield-6-release-date\" target=\"_blank\">Battlefield 6&#8217;s open beta<\/a> is doing spectacularly well on Steam: Around 500,000 concurrent players at the time of writing, down from a peak of 521,079 according to <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/app\/3081410\/charts\/\" target=\"_blank\">SteamDB<\/a>. That puts the BF6 beta at 18th place for peak concurrents in Steam history, two spots ahead of the unified <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/app\/1938090\/charts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Call of Duty app&#8217;s peak of 491,670 players<\/a> in November 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Some caveats on the Call of Duty comparison: Steam concurrents never show the whole picture for multiplatform games, and even on PC, CoD&#8217;s numbers are complicated by Battle.net and especially Game Pass, which assuredly blunted Black Ops 6&#8217;s Steam peak last year.<\/p>\n<p>But this is still an insanely impressive showing for an open beta, and more supporting evidence that the recently rather one-sided CoD-Battlefield rivalry could be a real race this year. PCG FPS expert Morgan Park <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/battlefield-6-is-making-an-excellent-case-to-skip-call-of-duty-this-year\/\" target=\"_blank\">certainly thinks so on quality grounds<\/a>, while former Blizzard president Mike Ybara seems to be rooting against his former team with <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/former-blizzard-president-predicts-battlefield-6-is-going-to-boot-stomp-black-ops-7-because-call-of-duty-has-become-lazy\/\" target=\"_blank\">prognostications in favor of Battlefield 6<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For a more apples to apples comparison of player counts, The Battlefield 6 beta was already the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/battlefield-6s-open-beta-is-already-the-most-popular-battlefield-of-all-time-on-steam-and-the-platforms-44th-most-played-game-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\">most-played game in the series on Steam<\/a> on its first day of availability, when it was only playable by Battlefield Labs members. It now has <em>five times<\/em> the number of players as <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/app\/1517290\/charts\/#max\" target=\"_blank\">Battlefield 2042&#8217;s peak player count<\/a> set in 2023, two years after launch and buoyed by its <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/heres-the-thing-battlefield-2042-is-really-good-now\/\" target=\"_blank\">long comeback tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can still get in on the action this weekend, and EA will run another open beta next weekend from Thursday August 14 through Sunday August 17. <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ea.com\/games\/battlefield\/battlefield-6\/redeem\" target=\"_blank\">EA has shared instructions<\/a> on how to access the beta on its website\u2060\u2014it&#8217;s another one of those Twitch stream code drop deals. Battlefield 6 will release in full on October 10, and blessedly isn&#8217;t an $80 game\u2060\u2014just a $70 one. Chump change for a high roller like me. Walkin&#8217; around money.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"2a4f60fb-bc75-4ea2-bd69-7977a196376f\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2025 games\" data-dimension48=\"2025 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:400px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:100.00%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"Vji3V6i3HDWUHeQ22PrjFL\" name=\"New Project (8).jpg\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/the-battlefield-6-beta-has-broken-call-of-dutys-steam-player-count-record-surging-past-half-a-million-concurrents.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-games-2025-upcoming-pc-release-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"2a4f60fb-bc75-4ea2-bd69-7977a196376f\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2025 games\" data-dimension48=\"2025 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2025 games<\/strong><\/a>: This year&#8217;s upcoming releases<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/the-battlefield-6-beta-has-broken-call-of-dutys-steam-player-count-record-surging-past-half-a-million-concurrents\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First spotted by Battlefield Bulletin on Twitter, Battlefield 6&#8217;s open beta is doing spectacularly well on Steam: Around 500,000 concurrent players at the time of writing, down from a peak of 521,079 according to SteamDB. That puts the BF6 beta at 18th place for peak concurrents in Steam history, two spots ahead of the unified Call of Duty app&#8217;s peak of 491,670 players in November 2022. Some caveats on the Call of Duty comparison: Steam concurrents never show the whole picture for multiplatform games, and even on PC, CoD&#8217;s numbers are complicated by Battle.net and especially Game Pass, which assuredly blunted Black Ops 6&#8217;s Steam peak last year. But this is still an insanely impressive showing for an open beta, and more supporting evidence that&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-battlefield-6-beta-has-broken-call-of-dutys-steam-player-count-record-surging-past-half-a-million-concurrents\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1280712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[91,748],"class_list":["post-1280711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-fps","tag-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Battlefield 6 beta has broken Call of Duty&#039;s Steam player count record, surging past half a million concurrents | Arcader 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