Steam peak down 65% by mid-November — community asks why
By mid-November 2025, peak concurrent player counts on Steam had fallen roughly 65% from the 747,440 launch-day high , placing the game outside the top five on Steam for the first time post-release. The decline prompted widespread community discussion about live-service pacing, map variety, and competition from ARC Raiders and Call of Duty: Black Ops 7.
Key factors discussed in community threads and coverage:
Content cadence : three new maps in the first two months felt thin for a live-service title
ARC Raiders : the extraction shooter became a viral Steam phenomenon around the same period, pulling players away
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 : franchise-switching and temporary departures cited in Reddit discussions
Steam scope : figures are Steam-only; total active player base across all platforms was not disclosed by EA
EA developers later commented publicly on the decline ahead of Season 2.