Future 2/ARC Raiders
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It has been months now, however Future 2 gamers nonetheless can’t imagine the sport has ended its run with no extra content material being produced after 9 years, or 12 for the total historical past of the franchise. However what has occurred since? Gamers have continued to play no matter there not being any new content material, no matter the truth that everybody is aware of the sport won’t ever add extra. Now, it’s placing up some stunning figures.
Because it stands, Future 2’s playercount is matching ARC Raiders, with both putting up round 30,000 concurrents an evening. ARC Raiders, launched in October 2025, went viral and blew previous expectations with 481,000 concurrents close to launch, far above even Future 2’s all-time excessive of 316,000.
It’s additionally notable that till very lately, which was the launch of Helldivers 2’s replace, Devoid of Liberty, Future 2’s nightly numbers have been virtually even with that recreation as properly. Larger, possible, give that Helldivers 2 has a majority PC playerbase and Future 2 has a majority console one. ARC Raiders hasn’t revealed its personal PC/console break up.
These figures additionally say one thing concerning the precipitous fall of ARC along with the resilience of Future 2. No ARC Raiders updates have moved the needle when it comes to reversing playercount loss. ARC could enhance immediately with a stay replace, 1.42.0, however its subsequent huge content material addition is in October.
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Future 2, after all, has no extra updates, so it stands to motive these numbers can’t assist however decline additional. However the truth that they’re nonetheless this excessive, which is the very best baseline figures the sport has had since 2025, reveals gamers nonetheless need to play, even when nothing new is coming. Followers nonetheless imagine that Sony made an infinite mistake killing off Future 2 solely, however there have been zero indicators of reversal there, particularly after virtually all Future devs have been laid off in an enormous purge.
There may be, after all, one other recreation that’s in comparison with each Future 2, its Bungie rival, and ARC Raiders, its extraction shooter rival. That’s Marathon, peaking round 4,000 an evening now on Steam, 6x lower than each of these, regardless of its launch simply 5 months in the past. The sport has proven no indicators of discontinuing content material updates, and your complete state of affairs has understandably pissed off Future followers. There may be, nevertheless, the fact of the price of manufacturing to be famous, with Future 2 being a much more costly recreation to keep up and it has continually incurred losses. Although it’s tough to think about Marathon is popping a revenue in any respect with these dangerously low numbers (that is additionally with a 2:1 break up on Steam versus console).
The purpose, nevertheless, is that Future nonetheless lives. Gamers are at the moment digging by way of information to drag out vaulted content material in “Undertaking Dawn,” a cool new enterprise that, for now, Bungie and Sony appear content material to disregard. In the event that they gained’t make new content material, high-quality, gamers will make their very own, pulling from the previous.
Future is useless, however its ghost lives on, haunting those that killed it.
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