Game launches on Fridays are a beautiful thing. I remember growing up they were basically all on Tuesdays, which was not conducive to being productive throughout the week.
But with a hyped game like Battlefield 6, many players are taking sick days or paid time off to play it on its Friday launch day and extend the fun into their weekend to have several consecutive days of grinding out wins and frags with their squads.
But with a Friday launch comes even more players who want to play right when the game goes live. Because of this, EA has implemented a server queue. Here's what that means for you.
Battlefield 6 'game servers full' explained
On the day of BF6's launch, many players are being placed into a queue to log in to the game in a list of well over 400,000 players for some gamers. EA and Battlefield Studios explained that this has been put in place as a safeguard and is due to large demand to play the game as soon as it's available.
"Battlefield 6 launches today at 15:00UTC and we anticipate many of you to login at the same time during this initial moment," BF Labs explained. "To help ensure a smooth and stable login experience for everyone, we’re adding a queue system during this and other peak moments. Thanks for your patience as we launch Battlefield 6."
Basically, this means you have to wait in line to get on the servers to play the game, whether you're on console or PC. This can obviously be a bit of a bummer, but the hope is that once you make it through the queue, you can play BF6 with no further issues.
Even after launch day, it's possible that server queues could pop up as a bottleneck to prevent the servers from crashing if there are too many players online, like "other peak moments" as described. It may also happen after updates when servers need downtime and come back online once deployed.
Just sit tight, grab an energy drink or a snack, and get ready for your queue to let you in the game as you impatiently watch that massive number slowly dwindle to zero.
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