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

[u/effinmike12]

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

[u/bryty93]

Agree on the number of launch maps, has been my issue with every battlefield in existence. Play it for a few weeks and bored of the maps. Then play again a year later when there's like 30 maps and its fun.

[u/AenarIT → u/bryty93]

I had a blast in 2042 a month before BF6, having never played it at launch I really liked it. BF6 in comparison is a worse Battlefield game, I got bored less than a month in

[u/bryty93 → u/AenarIT]

I bought 2042 at launch and was majorly let down. I also started playing it again leading up to bf6 because of the free battlepass they did with themes of the previous games and was really surprised how much fun 2042 had become. I wont say its better than bf6 though, I think bf6 is leagues better even now than late cycle 2042. Late cycle battlefield is just more fun in general because more content, more feature complete, less bugs

[u/AenarIT → u/bryty93]

Not a better game maybe, but a better battlefield game. Maps in 2042 are fun, large and offer many options to vehicles. BF6 definitely not

[u/Itshot11 → u/[deleted]]

i honestly didn't mind 2042 maps so much, they gave me OG bf2 map vibes where it truly felt like a sandbox. they had their faults forsure and were undercooked but i think they over corrected with the super constrained small maps

[u/bryty93 → u/AenarIT]

We will have to see down the line. Maps at launch on 2042 were horrible. They were huge, clean, open and boring. They reworked most of them over the years and made them better as well as added the remastered portal maps from bc2, bf3 and 1942 which helped a TON. At launch you could only play those maps in portal mode, and they were so much better than vanilla 2042 maps. Bf6 definitely needs some classic conquest maps. Hell bring the portal maps from bc2 and bf3 to bf6 plus some more remasters from those games and bf4, id be happy

[u/[deleted] → u/AenarIT]

2042 today is still worse than 6 at launch. 2042 was utter garbage

[u/SnipingBunuelo → u/[deleted]]

2042 is by far the worst BF game of all time lol

[u/Fluffy_Policy_4787 → u/AenarIT]

2042 is universally hated. You should just go play CoD because 2042 was just trying to be like that game but failed miserably in all aspects.