A Battlefield 6 participant with a whole lot 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 bought 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 except the sport was bought within the final two weeks and you have barely performed it. Nonetheless, the participant wrote a word to a help agent explaining their emotions and why they needed a refund. Valve seemingly thought it was a legitimate sufficient cause and granted the refund outdoors of the same old phrases. Whether or not or not it will 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 publish that the builders “do not get to take away the sport modes I play and nonetheless preserve my cash.” The aforementioned modes are nonetheless obtainable within the recreation, however they’re solely obtainable by means of Portal/the server browser. After I went to seek out Rush matches within the server browser, the entire lobbies have been fully empty. Which may be an error, however even nonetheless, it makes it tough 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 largest recreation of 2025, however misplaced loads of gamers within the weeks and months following its launch. Some have been pissed off with the quantity of content material that was being launched, others demanded quality-of-life modifications, and a few simply moved on to different video games. Battlefield 6 has managed to win some gamers again since the launch of Season 4, which added naval fight and large new maps, nevertheless it stays to be seen if it could actually maintain or develop these participant counts from right here.
In line with Steam Charts, Battlefield 6’s participant rely rose practically 20% on the platform alone with the launch of the newest season. Nonetheless, the elimination of modes like Rush aren’t strikes that can preserve gamers, as evident with this story.
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