Battlefield 2042 rode a free weekend and recent improvements to have a near-launch day player population on Steam

EA's gambit to have a Battlefield 2042 free weekend as Modern Warfare 3 got its multiplayer beta seems to have paid off. First noted by PCGamesN, the multiplayer FPS, which was lambasted by fans when it launched in 2021, nearly matched its all-time peak player count on Steam⁠—102,009 according to SteamDB, just shy of that 2021 high of 105,397...
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