Black Ops 7 Launch Numbers Fall Wanting Battlefield 6 on Steam

Though Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 7 managed to get an honest participant depend on Steam at launch, its peak launch depend nonetheless fell wanting Battlefield 6‘s 24-hour peak on Valve’s platform. As of this writing, the 24-hour peak participant depend for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 stood at 87,882, or roughly a 3rd of Battlefield 6‘s 24-hour Steam participant complete.

Whereas Activision’s newest entry launched over a month after Battlefield 6 went stay, Black Ops 7‘s launch additionally coincided with a serious replace to Name of Responsibility: Warzone. Nevertheless, the arrival of Black Ops 7 has not precisely gone to plan for Activision, as the sport acquired a combined participant score on Steam, and is at the moment sitting at 58% optimistic opinions. Moreover, Black Ops 7 was review-bombed on Steam after gamers aired their grievances with the sport’s marketing campaign mode, which requires a constant Web connection and doesn’t embrace a pause operate. Participant complaints had been additionally focused at Activision’s alleged use of AI paintings for Black Ops 7‘s Calling Playing cards.

Black Ops 7’s Preliminary Participant Rely Falls Wanting Battlefield 6 on Steam

Although it was one in every of 2025’s most anticipated titles, Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 7 has hit a slight stumbling block inside its first day. The 24-hour peak participant depend for Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 7 stood at 89,595 on Steam as of this writing. Though that quantity is anticipated to climb over the weekend, the mark is sort of wanting Battlefield 6‘s newest 24-hour participant complete. Although Battlefield 6‘s Steam player count has waned from its all-time peak of 747,440, it nonetheless managed a good 24-hour peak depend of 271,307 from November 14 to fifteen. Ergo, Black Ops 7‘s Steam participant depend inside its first 24 hours of launch is roughly 30% of Battlefield 6‘s tally.

One other Shooter Has Taken Steam By Storm

Nevertheless, the mixed 24-hour participant totals of each Battlefield 6 and Black Ops 7 on Steam had been dwarfed by one other competitor. Embark Studios’ ARC Raiders held an all-time peak player count of 462,488 on Sunday, November 9. As of this writing, ARC Raiders has a present Steam participant depend of 390,201 and counting. Although Black Ops 7 and Battlefield 6 have a mixed 24-hour complete of 360,902 Steam gamers, ARC Raiders‘ present depend nonetheless clears each video games by 29,299 customers.

In fact, the Steam participant depend of Black Ops 7 doesn’t replicate what number of complete customers are enjoying on consoles. Contemplating that Black Ops 7 is available on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, it stays to be seen what number of gamers there really are throughout all platforms.