One month after launch, Star Wars Battlefront is under 100 gamers

One in all this 12 months’s most disappointing launches is undoubtedly the remastered Star Wars Battlefront assortment. Although it appeared like a positive factor based mostly on idea alone — updating and bundling collectively Pandemic Studios’ beloved Star Wars Battlefront and Star Wars Battlefront 2 from 2004 and 2005 — the gathering of Battlefield and Name of Responsibility fashion multiplayer shooters has been met with poor critiques as a result of its worth and efficiency. In consequence, the FPS recreation’s participant rely is dwindling shortly, now dipping under 100 Steam customers.

The Star Wars Battlefront assortment has been met with disapproval by gamers both returning to or attempting the basic FPS video games for the primary time. Solely 20% of the 6,666 critiques on its Steam web page proper now are constructive, giving it a ‘Largely Damaging’ ranking. Many of the complaints heart on its technical issues, which make merely becoming a member of and taking part in a multiplayer match far harder than it must be. Others elevate the difficulty of the sport’s worth, which is $35.01 USD / £29.33 regardless of the unique Battlefront 1 and a pair of’s age.

There poor critiques have been accompanied by a big decline in lively gamers on Steam. On the time of writing solely 77 gamers are at present lively in recreation, and Battlefront has solely reached a peak of 141 gamers this week (final Sunday April 21). For a multiplayer recreation, these numbers, particularly just a bit over a month since launch, are fairly dismal and level to a worrying future for anybody trying to discover matches.

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