The Battlefield 6 Open Beta has drawn significant attention ahead of its official start date, with nearly 10,000 players already preloading the beta on Steam despite servers not yet being online. According to SteamDB, the Open Beta reached a peak of 9,463 players on the platform following the preload launch on August 4.

Following Battlefield 6's beta pre-load going live on all platforms yesterday, the game has hit a peak of 9,463 concurrent "players" on Steam (players being a rather strong word, as it stands) according to SteamDB. That doesn't account for those on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, either.