Battlefield 6 stomps Call of Duty's Steam record with 520,000 concurrent players, but EA promises it's still working on those long "entry times"

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Battlefield 6 isn't just the biggest Battlefield game ever based on concurrent players, it's even stomped its biggest rival and arguably the biggest shooter series on the planet: Call of Duty. Thank goodness for some competition, eh?

During the Battlefield 6 Open Beta's peak time on Saturday night, the shooter pulled in a whopping 520,000 or so Steam players at the same time. That made it the weekend's fourth biggest game on the platform, behind only Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, and PUBG, and the 22nd biggest game on the storefront of all time based on concurrent players.

Kaan Serin
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Kaan freelances for various websites including Rock Paper Shotgun, Eurogamer, and this one, Gamesradar. He particularly enjoys writing about spooky indies, throwback RPGs, and anything that's vaguely silly. Also has an English Literature and Film Studies degree that he'll soon forget.

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