DICE and Electronic Arts are trying to prevent their servers from crashing due to the heavy load of Battlefield 6.

Battlefield 6 is available worldwide, and it’s clear that players have been eagerly awaiting its release. This is evident not only because hundreds of thousands of players participated in the beta on Steam alone—and probably millions more if we include consoles—but also because the servers immediately reached their capacity limit when the game was released yesterday.

Players were immediately put in a queue. Fortunately, we haven’t heard of players waiting long to access the game. The number of concurrent players on Steam was higher than during the beta (747,440). According to SteamDB, this peak was reached shortly after launch. Currently, there are more than 350,000 concurrent players on Steam. Yes, a lot of people are playing, and this number will increase during the day because, as I write this, it is nighttime or early morning in North America.

A short update on login queues as we prepare for the launch of Battlefield 6 later today.

Battlefield 6 launches today at 15:00UTC and we anticipate many of you to login at the same time during this initial moment.

To help ensure a smooth and stable login experience for…

— Battlefield Comms (@BattlefieldComm) October 10, 2025

The attached image shows that more than 418,000 people were waiting for their turn. This is interesting because many players expected DICE and Electronic Arts to resolve the server issues in time for the game’s release. Interest in Battlefield is much higher than expected, and it seems that the first-person shooter game has once again taken DICE and Electronic Arts by surprise. Although the queue system was implemented immediately, players are probably not waiting too long because the publisher and Battlefield Studios were prepared for this. Yesterday morning, we received a warning about the queue system, which was introduced to ensure smooth operation. So far, it seems to be working.

Battlefield 6 is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC, with no word on it being ported to Nintendo Switch 2.

Source: WCCFTech, SteamDB, Tech4Gamers