'Pilem 5' Colder '2042' twice ... Date of seven months

The phenomenon of the new product of a particular enterprise is a self-tuning (cannibalization) that the market share of the same enterprise. Negative deduction is strong, but self-influence is always not a bad phenomenon. In particular, in the game industry, there are many times when the fans of existing works will be success if they move without problems with the next work.

However, the situation surrounding the latest is very difficult to evaluate as 'successful self-awareness'. Rather, it is captured to be a common phenomenon that 2021, the Battlefield 2042> Information disclosure and game launches were analyzed by data on the Battlefield 4>, , , .. Let's take a look at what the Battlefield 2042, which was the ambitious of Dy sees, is currently in the competition with the 'Brothers'.

Positive filter of 'Public Trailer'

If you look at the graph of 'Steam DB', which provides the steam user data, the user's slower phenomenon of the Battlefield 4> is first prominent. The number of simultaneous users in the Battlefield 4, who maintained about up to 6,000 people from June 9, 20, the Battlefield 2042 trailer is the first June 10, 7,000, We reached about twice the previous quarter.

The number of The number of users has returned to the old level after a month. is an amazing result if the fact that the normal user management has not been achieved, that the Battlefield 4 is a work, which was a normal operation. Developer Days has temporarily expanded the server of in accordance with this fan response.

In addition to the recent title and , the user has increased as a result, but the user has increased, but not as a dramatic level as . This seems to have a similarity to and .

From to for about 10 years, the series has been maintained in modern background and switched to the scientist in the Battlefield 1. In the sense, the series has always expressed the desire that the series will come back again. As the background of this, the background of the Battlefield 2042 is identified as the current, it is determined to be a longer title Battlefield 4.

Free weekend event and open beta test

Since July, there is a significant increase in the number of numerous values ​​in common to three works. First, each game has been a 5-6 times user growth at the time each game has proceeded. And 15,3,000 people, respectively, and to win the number of concatenates of about 76,000.

Secondly, the Open Beta test was initiated at all three games on September 30, which was announced. And open beta showed a figure that has risen to October 6 to 9, which was actually conducted. Since then, he recorded the fake of the ward in October 16-17 and painted the decline again.

However, it is necessary to note that the Battlefield 1 and and are compared to the and the incident, 1 year ago, the number of users of the same time and a big gap. On January 11, 2022, of the Battlefield Field 1, the maximum number of concurrent users was 7,748, and 97% compared to 3,924 per year ago, it was approximately double.

is even more dramatic. On January 11, 2022 of the Battlefield Field 5, the maximum number of contacts was 4,746, with no difference compared to the number of users (3,924 users of Battlefield 1). On the other hand, as of January 11, 2022, the maximum number of contacts is 21,781. The number of users in the subsequent operation is about 4.5 times the number of users.

Dice that I can not laugh

In the news of the new release, the phenomenon itself to find the existing work again is common. There is no problem if you have a lot of interest so that it is naturally moved to your new work. However, the number of users of the Battlefield 2042> is showing an endless decline. Therefore, the Dice can not be laughed in the new popularity of and .

recorded the maximum number of concurrent users from November 19, 2022, on November 19, 2022. The Battlefield 1, which is considered to be the largest successful series, is not much disappointed with about 90,000 people, at the time of the beta test, compared to what was a maximum of 160,000 contacts after formal launch.

However, since the completeness and the game design issue, the number of associations is decreasing at a scary rate. When a month has been released on December 16, a one-year contact was reached for a 5-minute level, Dais has conducted a 'free play weekend' event and brought to about 2.5x levels. However, the decrease in the end of the event started again, and after the event, it eventually reached 9,046, it failed to defend 10,000.

'Can I be better than brother'

In summary, statistics, is the conclusion eumyeonseodo raised a topic enough to revive the popular series of traditional games jeongjak its user pool was not maintained. Especially as expected to try live service type BM, the user full collapse is fatal.

Of course, the sales volume of the Battlefield 2042 is not small. However, it is unclear whether enough can recall the enormous production costs. production costs of the current was not clarified. However, a $100 million (about W119.2bn) was added to the Battlefield 4), which was produced in 2013. For 7-8 years the production at a much larger scale in the last time is estimated to have heard more of the cost.

This series of fans amid a situation where the future prospects of the Give up the back and everywhere preoccupied with <5 Battlefield> Update stop, he says, such as pessimistic. Indeed, has overtaken his brothers again in the future could be a surviving works from the competition? The pace of the die becomes curious.