Battlefield 6 Fails to be Revived by New Season Release

It was recently revealed that Battlefield 6’s development team was ‘biting their nails’ in anxiety at the Battlefield 6 roadmap. In a bid to push for a bold resurgence, Battlefield Studios tried to roll out a hefty update for the game’s second season, as well as evolving REDSEC somewhat, but it hasn’t proven to be as much of an adrenaline hit as they wanted.

The Battlefield 6 season two update was released yesterday, and it failed to bring back a considerable enough amount of players to call it a successful content drop. Similarly, viewership failed to increase, suggesting that nobody is interested in watching the game, just as much as they are losing interest in playing it.

Battlefield 6 Continues to Backslide

When Battlefield 6 dropped in October, it was to a stellar reception that praised the game’s multiplayer platform to no end. The single-player portion was a take-it-or-leave-it delivery, and REDSEC turned out to be a fledgling battle royale that failed to make waves, but the multiplayer element of the game felt solid.

Since the game launched, interest has waned as Battlefield Studios has watched its player count slowly collapse. There was hope that players would either return to Battlefield 6 or discover the game with the deployment of the season two update, but that hasn’t been the case.

If we use Steam as a representative example, we can see that the player count hit 92,281 as the second season was released. But on a random Sunday afternoon on January 25th, with no new content drops, the game hit 97,959 players on the same platform. The game jumped somewhat in the last 24 hours, but not enough to dub the new season a resurgence.

For reference, the game reached 747,440 concurrent players upon release in October 2025.

To put this into further perspective, ARC Raiders was released just a couple of weeks after Battlefield 6 and had a peak player count of 481,966 users on Steam. In the last 24 hours, it hit a peak of 215,978 users.

We can then turn our attention to viewership, which hasn’t fared much better.

Last year, Battlefield 6 hit a whopping 868,520 concurrent viewers, a peak that few games have managed to achieve over the years. Once upon a time, more than 17,000 streamers were broadcasting Battlefield 6 at the same time.

In the 24 hours that saw the arrival of season two, we saw the peak viewer count jump from about 3,000 users to 27,000, leaving Battlefield 6 as the 75th most-viewed game on Twitch. It’s possible we’d see more growth going into the weekend, which is when around 30% more people tend to consume Battlefield content, but it’s unlikely.

Using ARC Raiders as another comparison point, we see the peak of 372,816 viewers at launch holds much firmer with a 24-hour peak of 116,000, which is about typical for Embark Studios’ extraction adventure title.

It’s not Highguard levels of implosion, but Battlefield 6 players fear the counts will continue to slide as folks lose interest in the game that was designed to recapture the excitement of a floundering franchise.

Have you returned to Battlefield 6 since the new season dropped? Let us know what you think about the changes on the Insider Gaming Discord server.

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Grant’s adoration for gaming started on the Amstrad CPC in 1996. Now, he’s a multi-platform expert gamer with a deep love for the industry, a passion for esports, and more…

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