Star Wars: Battlefront 2 Just Broke Its Own Steam Record, 8 Years After Coming Out

by Benita


Yesterday
I
wrote
about
the
surprise
resurgence
of
Star
Wars:
Battlefront
2,
the
EA
published
multiplayer
shooter
from
2017.
At
the
time,
the
game
was
close
to
breaking
its
all-time
peak
concurrent
player
record.
Well,
it
broke
it.
No,
it

smashed
it.

In
the
last
few
hours

Star
Wars:
Battlefront
2
hit
a
brand
new
concurrent
player
count
on
Steam,
bringing
in
17,888
people
to
fight
the
Empire
or
put
down
the
rebel
scum.
Previously,
the
record,
set
a
year
after
the
games
release,
was
just
under
10.5k.

According
to
BattlefrontUpdates
on
X,
who
claims
to
have
insider
sources,
the
game
managed
to
hit
329,000
players
across
all
platforms
just
an
hour
or
two
ago.

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

The
huge
groundswell
of
support
for
the
game
has

brought
Star
Wars:
Battlefront
creative
director
Dennis
Brannvall
back
to
social
media.
His
last
post
was
in
2023,
but
it
looks
like
he’s
finally
remembered
his
X
password.

“I
felt
a
great
disturbance
in
the
force,”
he
wrote
in
his
first
tweet
back,
followed
by
“how
have
you
been?”

The
return
of
Battlefront
has
led
to
fans
calling
for
a
sequel.
EA
no
longer
has
the
license
to
the
series,
though,
but
that
doesn’t
mean
something
couldn’t
happen,
or
that
Lucas
Films
could
even
get
a
new
team
to
handle
a
Battlefront
game.
Sadly,
it
seems
unlikely
that
we
will
get
a
new
game
in
the
series,
but
then
again,
who
knows?
If
Lucas
Films
senses
money
to
be
earned,
it
might
just
happen.

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