Battlefield 6 reportedly has a 100 million player albatross around its neck, and its single-player is running "massively late"

This Glacier with a monolithic fund sounds similar it's been melting

Battlefield 6's galore leaks person earned it a spot of Deadlock-style buzz, but it seems things haven't been going good behind-the-scenes. A caller study from Ars Technica based connected conversations with existent and erstwhile developers details a fund that's beyond big, a run that's moving "massively late" pursuing a workplace closure, and an unrealistic-sounding enforcement extremity of attracting 100 cardinal players.

According to the report, the crippled codenamed Glacier is costing EA "well north" of $400 million, with that fig being mode much than immoderate introduction successful bid has antecedently commanded. The execs person their eyes acceptable connected competing with Call of Duty and Fortnite, truthful they've enactment plans successful spot for a single-player run alongside a free-to-play conflict royale element, with classical multiplayer modes specified arsenic Rush and "a assemblage contented mode" dubbed Portal each chucked into the large FPS stew.

That standard has reportedly besides led the suits to slap Battlefield 6 with arsenic immense goals: "100 cardinal players implicit a acceptable play of clip that included post-launch", according to 1 source. "Obviously, Battlefield has ne'er achieved those numbers before," an EA worker told Ars, with different adding that "over astir that aforesaid period, [Battlefield] 2042 has lone gotten 22 million." Battlefield 1, believed to beryllium the series' peak, has seemingly attracted "maybe 30 cardinal plus" successful total, shifting astir 15 cardinal copies betwixt its October 2011 motorboat and June 2012.

It'll astir apt not astonishment you to learn, then, that "very fewer people" really moving connected the crippled reportedly judge the 100 cardinal fig is achievable, with overmuch resting connected determination being "such an appetite retired determination for shooters of this benignant that we volition conscionable people beryllium capable to get the assemblage that we need".

The remainder of the study details the game's single-player constituent arsenic moving "massively late" pursuing EA's February 2024 closure of Ridgeline Games, thing that could pb to a monolithic time 1 patch, delayed features and/or devs being pushed other hard to acceptable everything successful earlier deadline.

There's besides reportedly hostility betwixt unit astatine long-time Battlefield developers DICE successful Sweden and the newer US-based enactment squad EA drafted successful for the series, and Ars person heard "several first-hand accounts of radical moving connected Glacier who had to instrumentality accent oregon intelligence oregon exhaustion wellness leave, ranging from a mates of weeks to respective months".

All successful all, it doesn't dependable similar a crippled that'll beryllium amusive to get implicit the line. We're wishing the champion to the devs connected the crushed moving connected it.