Hazard Zone in Battlefield 2042 is in a tough spot. Now a well-known insider leaks an unofficial but alarming piece of information.
Where is Battlefield 2042 headed? After a technically disastrous release and a community at its limit, the bad news about the multiplayer shooter doesn’t stop. Now, the usually well-informed insider Tom Henderson paints an even bleaker picture regarding the Hazard Zone mode.
Henderson writes on Twitter that Hazard Zone has so few players that EA DICE stopped tracking the statistics internally just six days after release. If this is true, the numbers could be even worse than available data suggests.
There’s that few players in Hazard Zone that they didn’t even bother to report statistics internally on it after Thanksgiving (Day 7 after worldwide launch).
So yeah, Hazard Zone is an unsurprising bust and I wouldn’t expect support on it.
– Tom Henderson (@_Tom_Henderson_) January 10, 2022
In his post, the insider refers to a much-discussed Reddit post that puts up for discussion how many players would have tried Hazard Zone at all. There, many users profess to have either only marginally noticed the raid mode or to have rarely played it.
Very important: Although Tom Henderson has often been well informed in the past, his information does not come from official sources. So treat the information with a healthy dose of scepticism. However, his latest statement fits the mood in the community.
The messy situation around Battlefield 2042 even spawned its own satire game on Steam called Clownfield 2042:
The Great Crash
Battlefield 2042 was able to boast over 100,000 simultaneously active players on Steam at the time of its release. However, the numbers dropped rapidly. Updates still brought the one or other upward trend, but this did not last.
Currently, Battlefield 2042, with under 10,000 Steam players, ranks far below its predecessor Battlefield 5 and around the same level as 2016’s Battlefield 1. Such weak player numbers should not be the claim of EA and DICE. Battlefield fans are going through tough times at the moment.
Remaining hope now rests on the roadmap and substantial future updates. But these could be a long time coming until March 2022, prompting our editor Dimi to say something drastic. Read his column above for more.
Even one cheat manufacturer dropped Battlefield 2042 because producing cheat software just wasn’t worth it at the moment. Strange as that may sound, that’s not a good sign for the future of Battlefield 2042 either.
