A trio of live-service games dominated the conversation in the Fall – “Battlefield 6,” “Call of Duty: Black Ops 7” and “ARC Raiders” – all for different reasons.
The well-received “Battlefield 6” launched on October 10th, hitting a jaw-dropping 747,440 concurrent players on Steam at launch and seemingly a huge success.
However, the shine has definitely worn off as SteamCharts (via Forbes) reports that those launch numbers have sunk by a whopping 85% with the title hitting 113,000 players at its most recent peak – and slipping to as low as 83,000 last week.
That puts its numbers now on par with “Marvel Rivals,” though that game has been out over a year and has managed to hover around 100,000 players daily since June.
It’s all notably different from the acclaimed “ARC Raiders”. That Embark Studios title launched on Steam on October 30th with 264,673 players – rising to a peak of 481,966 just over two weeks later on November 16th.
The remarkable thing is that it hasn’t fallen much from there. On Sunday, the title hit a recent peak of 439,119 players, retaining 91% of players from its peak over a month ago. Even its single lowest day, two weeks into December, was still 263,615.
Both “Battlefield 6” and “ARC Raiders” are live service PvP games. Bungie’s “Marathon,” another kind of extraction shooter, launches in early March.
