Six years after its launch, Battlefield 1 has 10x the player count of disastrous Battlefield 2042

battlefield 2042 not very good, right? Even at launch, we knew it. It quickly became one of the worst reviewed games on Steam. I had misaligned hitboxes. It was poorly optimized. Our review of Sherif kicked off pretty hard, and even Battlefield’s self-confessed apologist admitted that he couldn’t resist the terrifying launch.

And here we are, almost a year later, and we see the entire Battlefield fanbase operating with the same sentiment. The game is so bad that all the players you expected to be glued to the last title have gone to play Battlefield 1. In the last 24 hours, the 2016 game has attracted 51,000 concurrent players on Steam, that’s all. -high user time (according to SteamDB).

Meanwhile, Battlefield 2042 is chugging on a measly 5,300 in the last 24 hours, basically 1/10 of what his partner of six years enjoys. And it’s no surprise, really: EA has been trying, and failing, to resurrect Battlefield 2042 lately. But even Battlefield 2042’s much-hyped Liquidators event went offline less than an hour after it went live. BF2042 just can’t catch a break.

It also helps that Battlefield 1 has seen a glitzy discount on Steam recently. You can pick up the game right now for just $4.79 / £4.19, less than the price of a pint (at least in London). The game is one of the few blockbuster FPS titles that went deep into the trenches of the Great War, or World War I if you prefer, and ushered in a new era for the series, in a way.

This isn’t the first time Battlefield 1 has been compared to Battlefield 2042 – the numbers started leveling off, even nine months ago. We just didn’t expect BF1 to outperform its newer counterpart so drastically in such a short amount of time.

You may check it out on steam here, and read all of our coverage of the now-classic title on our Battlefield 1 hub page.