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The Battlefield 6 beta has broken Call of Duty's Steam player count record, surging past half a million concurrents | This puts the BF6 beta at 18th place overall on Steam.


This puts the BF6 beta at 18th place overall on Steam.

First spotted by Battlefield Bulletin on Twitter, is doing spectacularly well on Steam: Around 500,000 concurrent players at the time of writing, down from a peak of 521,079 according to SteamDB. Ted has been thinking about PC games and bothering anyone who would listen with his thoughts on them ever since he booted up his sister's copy of Neverwinter Nights on the family computer. He is obsessed with all things CRPG and CRPG-adjacent, but has also covered esports, modding, and rare game collecting.

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