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A Battlefield 6 participant with tons of of hours of playtime has scored a full refund of the sport after Battlefield Studios eliminated key modes from its quick-play matchmaking.
Over on Reddit, the participant revealed that Steam granted them a full $110 refund of the sport’s Phantom Version, saying they acquired upset after builders continued to tug modes from the sport’s fast play matchmaking. They famous that it started with Squad Deathmatch and King of the Hill, however as soon as Rush (a Battlefield staple) was pulled, they requested a refund.
Steam famously refuses to grant most refunds until the sport was bought within the final two weeks and you have barely performed it. Nonetheless, the participant wrote a be aware to a help agent explaining their emotions and why they needed a refund. Valve seemingly thought it was a legitimate sufficient purpose and granted the refund exterior of the standard phrases. Whether or not or not this can spark extra refunds stays to be seen, nevertheless it does present that some followers are fed up with video games radically altering all through their life cycle.
The fan famous of their Reddit put up that the builders “do not get to take away the sport modes I play and nonetheless preserve my cash.” The aforementioned modes are nonetheless out there within the recreation, however they’re solely out there via Portal/the server browser. After I went to seek out Rush matches within the server browser, all the lobbies had been utterly empty. That could be an error, however even nonetheless, it makes it troublesome to discover a foyer with the mode you need to play. Fast play solves that by placing you right into a recreation with sufficient gamers in a comparatively shut area to handle ping.
Battlefield 6 was the most important recreation of 2025, however misplaced quite a lot of gamers within the weeks and months following its launch. Some had been pissed off with the quantity of content material that was being launched, others demanded quality-of-life adjustments, and a few simply moved on to different video games. Battlefield 6 has managed to win some gamers again because the launch of Season 4, which added naval fight and large new maps, nevertheless it stays to be seen if it might maintain or develop these participant counts from right here.
In accordance with Steam Charts, Battlefield 6’s participant rely rose practically 20% on the platform alone with the launch of the most recent season. Nonetheless, the elimination of modes like Rush aren’t strikes that may preserve gamers, as evident with this story.
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