Battlefield 2042 didn’t make a face following being ranked in the top 10 best selling products worldwide on Steam. After the 9th season 1 update, it has not been ranked once for 5 days, and even if it doesn’t become a god game, the expectation that it will be able to stir has become useless. Through the 50% discount event from the 14th, we were able to settle in 16th, but the result fell far short of expectations.
If you look at user reviews, the progress is even more opaque. Of the 2,253 recent reviews registered within 30 days on Steam, 236 new negative reviews were registered only on the 9th day when the update started. Since then, negative evaluations regarding twice as much as positive evaluations have continued, and it has been proven that the problem with Battlefield 2042 cannot be solved simply by a large-scale review or recruitment of a new crew.
The most pointed out is the overbalance problem between the new vehicle ‘Stealth Helicopter’ and the new specialist ‘Leeds’. In addition to server ping, optimization problems, and newly added bugs, users’ evaluations are captured as ‘If one problem is solved, another problem arises’. Although it is not possible to make a quick conclusion in the situation that a week has passed since the release, if this situation continues, it is expected that the uptrend of Battlefield 2042 will be uncertain in the future.
Meanwhile, ‘Destiny 2’ rose from 12th to 8th in Steam’s daily highest concurrent users ranking. ‘Arc: Survival Evolved’, which is being distributed free of charge, remained at 6th place as yesterday, but showed an increase in users from 138,580 to 224,355, proving the interest in free distribution and arc movieization.
