Despite achieving extraordinary commercial success on launch day, Battlefield 6 has had an immediate setback: the extraordinary failure engulfed most of paying customers who were trying to log into their respective core game modes. Reports are circulating on social media and gaming forums, stating that, more so, those who bought the title through the EA Launcher get critical error messages that practically lock the players out of the experience.
The issue is essentially denial of service, all with prompts indicating content is either “missing” or must be “purchased to play,” even after buyers from having shelled out the total price for the game. It was a serious digital roadblock preventing entry to all elements of the new military shooter. It includes a substantial nine-mission campaign and popular suite of competitive multiplayer modes including Conquest, Domination, and the favorite Breakthrough. The situation is clearly worsened by the fact that many often experience this problem just after having went through online waiting times characteristic of major releases.
This operational failure comes as quite a blow by the publisher in the face of an otherwise immense early triumph for the title. Just by extracting sales from Steam alone, it is obvious that the new title has sold over 1.8 million units within just a few hours of being available, translating to revenues of over $100 million. Aside from considering this impressive financial performance driven by the collective work of the four development studios under the Battlefield Studios banner, all these are made pointless by the basic inability of many of the digital copies to perform as one would expect on the day of their release.
The major source of this productivity-related disorder emanates from the entire EA ecosystem. It is reported that few users on the Steam platform also experienced difficulty accessing the content. The simpler fix, though, seems to be available just for this group of customers who just need to remove the download cache in the settings menu of Steam to get the launch-day patch installed. Yet this incident has already sparked the ire of a very frustrated community directed against the publisher, progressively prompting angered calls for restitution by way of full refunds emanating from countless locked-out players.
