The new Battlefield has dropped more than 75% of PC players

Released less than 2 weeks ago, a multi-million dollar game has lost a majority of its player base on PC. This descent has been frighteningly fast.

The latest entry in the massive first-person-shooter game Battlefield has sold strongly after its recent release, despite being panned by critics and players alike.

The developers publicly indicated that Battlefield 2042 has quickly outshone its predecessor in terms of sales numbers upon their respective release periods.
However, many are dissatisfied with the game for its current unfinished state, so much so that current owners are dissuading the game's purchase for others.

It appears the efforts of these unruly gamers are working, since the game's concurrent player base has dropped 76% on the PC gaming storefront Steam since its recent release.

The game impressively peaked at 105,397 players on Steam, since dropping to 24,129 players at the time of writing.
The decline has led the game to be less popular than older titles such as Farming Simulator 22 or The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

The freefall of declining players is natural in a game's lifecycle as it gets older, but not this fast.

However, this treatment by players is well deserved given the game's pervasive bugs and missing features such as a basic scoreboard.
Ultimately, this downfall is a direct response by players to the problematic "release now, fix later" mindset - where game publishers will release a game in a bad state with the excuse they will fix it all with subsequent patches.

Not all hope is lost for Battlefield 2042.

One of the game's modes, Battlefield Portal, has been a highlight for players as it provides creative players the tools to create their own game modes to play and share.
User-generated content, coupled with post-release patches, may yet revive the game to a state players will be happy with.

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