People keep falling victim to the same Steam-centric mentality when analyzing the concurrent player records of EA games. The new @GameDeveloperDotCom article relies strictly on the Steam records to make the point that Battlefront 2 is at its "highest-ever" CCU but fails to account that the game came to Steam almost 3 years after its global release, making the Steam launch figure irrelevant to the game's launch performance even on PC alone.

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/the-star-wars-battlefront-2-player-surge-exposes-a-major-flaw-in-ea-s-business-model

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The Star Wars Battlefront II player surge exposes the flaws in EA's business model

Over the last two months Star Wars Battlefront II has seen its highest-ever CCU, a huge achievement for an 8-year old game. Why hasn't EA said anything about it?