A report claims that the new Battlefield will also have a battle royale mode and EA has high hopes for it.
As we reported a few days ago, publisher Electronic Arts has extremely high expectations for Battlefield 6. According to an insider source, the publisher is expecting a total of 100 million players. According to the source, Battlefield 2042 reached a total of 22 million, the most successful part, Battlefield 1, 30 to 40 million.
Hopeful BF6
According to the report by Ars Technica these high goals are also to be achieved with a new Battle Royale. The model here is most likely the success of Warzone, which, according to official figures, was able to crack the 100 million player mark.
There was a detailed leak about this back in May 2025. The new Battle Royale mode is set to be a Free2Play spin-off of the new Battlefield and will incorporate many features from Firestorm, the Battle Royale for BF 5, but will also take a lot of inspiration from Warzone.
Fans are annoyed
“Why can’t we just have a Battlefield?” This is one of the top comments on the topic on Reddit. The answer to this Sidecarlover thinks he knows:
Shareholders see that Warzone is making a lot of money, and they want their own version. But instead of making a better version of it, they will undoubtedly make a worse version and wonder why it failed.
In fact, many are currently happy with what is seen in the leaks from the Battlefield Labs community testing program. Sabetha1183 think that EA is too late for the genre and is simply chasing trends rather than relying on its own strengths.
Sorry EA, but you’re almost a decade too late to make Battlefield a Battle Royale. But if you act now, you may only be half a decade too late to make it an extraction shooter. Or you can just, you know… make a Battlefield game.
By the way, there was already an extraction mode in Battlefield 2042 with Hazard Zone.
The insider report also reveals that hardly anyone at the studios responsible believes in the figures given. However, please note that these are leaks and not officially confirmed information. The previously leaked details on multiplayer and campaign were actually well received by fans, but now there are fears that EA may have got bogged down.
