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Battlefield 6 has reportedly cost over $400 million to make and led to developers taking up to 9 months off due to burnout new features
Making video games is hard, especially when you’re trying to compete with juggernauts like Call of Duty and Fortnite. But sometimes, it just feels like people are being mismanaged. According to a new report, the upcoming Battlefield game is in a bit of a state, with developers taking exhaustion leave and the project costing EA “well north” of $400 million.
Anonymous EA developers tell ARS Technica that the next game in the Battlefield series, codenamed Glacier, has a 100 million player target. “Obviously, Battlefield has never achieved those numbers before,” one EA employee says. “It’s important to understand that over about that same period, 2042 has only gotten 22 million,” adds another. Battlefield 1 is the most-successful in the series in terms of player count, and that only got to 30 millions. So, expectations are high.
Glacier also has a huge scope to try and get these player numbers. A battle royale mode, six-hour campaign, fan-favorite multiplayer modes like Conquest, and more. All this meant the budget was over $400 million back in 2023, and the current cost is much higher.