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A Near Decade Old Star Wars Game Is Continuing To See Its Player Count Rise, And No One Knows Why

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Johnny Flores Jr.

Published May 16, 2025

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Run, don't walk to go play Star Wars Battlefront 2, as the game is seeing an increase in popularity nearly eight years after its release.
The game, which saw a player spike around May 4, experienced another player spike just 24 hours ago.
Fans are pointing to the popularity of Andor, the ongoing Fortnite season and the re-release of Revenge of the Sith as possible reasons why, though there's no definitive answer surrounding why the game is spiking.

Nearly eight years to the day of its release, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Star Wars Battlefront 2 is seeing a renaissance like never before. The 2017 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Star Wars-centric shooter originally saw𓃲 a 250 percent boꦺost in players around May 4, AKA, Star Wars Day.

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Flash forward to May 15, and the game is once again resetting its peak concurrents on Steam. What's more, it's hard to pinpoint why exactly the game is having a moment all these year🐓s later.

Loot Boxes Aside, Star Wars Battlefront 2 Was Always An Underrated Title

To start, the game, which originally had a 24-hour peak of 5,559 🍎players around May 4, has seen another increase in player count. This time, .

Now, initially, that spike could be attributed to Star Wars Day. After all, there aren't that ma𒈔ny multiplayer-only Star Wars games that also feature as many characters from Star Wars lore as Battlefront 2 does.

However, now t🧔hat it seems to be an actual increase and not a one-off, fans 🍷in the Star Wars subreddit are trying to figure out what's happening.

"Andor got everyone excited to f💝ight the Empire," . That's a good possibility, as the second season of Andor ꦆdid just finish its run.

, outlining the moment♔ that Star Wars is having, even with seemingly limited content available.

The current Fortnite season is Star Wars-themed and really fun. It's making people wish there was a big multiplayer SW game again, and BF2 is🔥 still༺ great.

But more importantly, the devs recently patched BF2 for th💦e first time in 𝓀years in order to reduce cheating, which has plagued the game.

So it's a much better experience to come back to.

Add in🐻 Andor + May 4 + game on sale super cheap, and we're back, baby.

Whatever the case may 🤪be, it might be time for all of us to jump back into Battlefront 2. Who knows, maybe the increase in popularity c🥂ould help will a Battlefront 3 into existence. Never say never.