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Battlefield 6 Launches Worldwide With Huge Steam Debut and Login Queues

Early reviews favor multiplayer over a shorter, less impressive campaign.

Overview

  • EA released Battlefield 6 on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S alongside a day-one update listing more than 200 fixes.
  • Within the first 30 minutes on Steam, concurrent players surpassed 500,000, propelling the game to the platform’s top sellers.
  • Servers are online with a queue system at peak times, and typical waits reported from large queue positions have been roughly 13–15 minutes.
  • EA’s Battlefield Comms flagged launch queues in advance to stabilize logins, with teams “letting as many of you in” as possible during peak demand.
  • An analyst estimated more than $100 million in Steam pre-sales before launch, while aggregated reviews sit around 84/100 on Metacritic and the campaign runs about 5–6 hours across nine missions.