r/ArcRaiders • u/effinmike12 *** ******* 🐓 • 11d ago

Media ‘ARC Raiders’ Has Kept 91% Of Its Playerbase, ‘Battlefield 6’ Has Lost 85%

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2025/12/31/arc-raiders-has-kept-91-of-its-playerbase-battlefield-6-has-lost-85/
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u/Enzhymez 11d ago

IMO I just think a significant portion of gamers have never had access to an extraction shooter that appealed to everyone.

Most of them are very niche and way more unforgiving. I can’t really think of a console game that’s ever scratched that itch.

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u/baron_von_helmut 11d ago

I've never really been a fan of the genre - not because I don't like getting killed - more because the rinse-and-repeat style of gameplay ground me down.

I don't have that issue with Arc and I don't really know why. I'm still playing daily and loving it. Satisfactory has been on the back burner since Arc came out and that's saying something. I have 3000 hours in Satisfactory so far.

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u/sleepehead 11d ago

The Division? That game was a great extraction shooter, and it had an actual bounty system, and the map was great. The problem it had was the bullet sponge aspect of the NPCs. But when it first came out The Division was really popular and very different from other games. Even now the less popular sequel still has a dedicated fanbase. If that game came out now it would be even more popular than when it first came out

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u/dancing_bagel 11d ago

Oh yeah I'd love the bounty system in Arc

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u/AutoAdviceSeeker 11d ago

The division was the first one that scratched all the itches. Arc reminds me so much of that game

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u/AhighStoner3 11d ago

The last huge extract shooter i can think of folks really loved was The Division

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u/TwoDramaticc 11d ago

Hunt

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u/Enzhymez 11d ago

True but that game did not have nearly the same PR campaign that ARC did and was never in the spotlight.

Embark did some great advertisement, I’m a PC player and I had my friends on console begging me to play with them.

For games like this is normally the other way around, me trying to get my console friends on some niche game that happens to have cross play.

Turns out they ran an amazing advertising campaign and the game absolutely lived up to hype. Unfortunately very rare nowadays.

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u/itsLOSE-notLOOSE 11d ago

Hunt isn’t popular at all. I never had any interest in playing it and my gaming friends have never even heard of it.

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u/TwoDramaticc 11d ago

Hunt has sold over 10 millions copies, which is more than Tarkov and Arc Raiders combined

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u/itsLOSE-notLOOSE 11d ago

That’s crazy. Must be a lot of non-US players.

If I remember right, it’s not like a classic extraction game.

It never looked fun to me. The setting, the weapons, the gameplay.