{"id":1918764,"date":"2026-05-05T13:37:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T10:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1918764"},"modified":"2026-05-05T13:37:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T10:37:40","slug":"star-wars-battlefront-2-player-numbers-climb-again-as-excitement-builds-around-returning-resurgence-day-community-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1918764","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars Battlefront 2 player numbers climb again as excitement builds around returning Resurgence Day community event"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"news\" data-article-group=\"news\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul class=\"nav-links\">\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Home<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/news\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      News<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/star-wars-battlefront-2\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Star Wars: Battlefront II<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_details\" id=\"main-content\">\n<h1 class=\"title\">Star Wars Battlefront 2 player numbers climb again as excitement builds around returning Resurgence Day community event<\/h1>\n<p class=\"strapline\">No one&#8217;s ever really gone.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_asset\">\n<figure class=\"headline_image_wrapper\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"headline_image\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/Star-Wars-Battlefront-2-Kyber-Ventress.png?width=570&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;dpr=3&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Asajj Ventress in modded Star Wars Battlefront 2\" loading=\"eager\" data-uri=\"Star-Wars-Battlefront-2-Kyber-Ventress.png\" data-lightbox width=\"570\" height=\"321\"><figcaption>\n          <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>EA\/Kyber<\/cite><\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"avatar\">\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fran Ruiz avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/fran-j-ruiz-author.png?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\"><\/p>\n<p>  <img alt=\"Fran Ruiz avatar\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"fran-j-ruiz-author.png\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"byline\">\n                  <span class=\"article_type\" data-slug=\"news\"><br \/>\n                    News<br \/>\n                  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/authors\/fran-ruiz\">Fran Ruiz<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"job_title\"><br \/>\n                      Contributor<br \/>\n                    <\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"published_at\">\nPublished on <time datetime=\"2026-05-05T13:37:40+00:00\">May 5, 2026<\/time>              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mypop-header-wrapper\">\n<p><button class=\"mypop-button button wide\" data-state=\"follow\" data-type=\"tag\" data-uuid=\"fba459bc-a342-4932-9b36-e46b065ff31e\" data-name=\"Star Wars: Battlefront II\" data-follow-text=\"Follow Star Wars: Battlefront II\" data-unfollow-text=\"Following Star Wars: Battlefront II\" data-aria-follow-text=\"Follow Star Wars: Battlefront II\" data-aria-unfollow-text=\"Following Star Wars: Battlefront II\" data-popup=\"true\" data-force-login=\"true\" aria-label=\"Follow Star Wars: Battlefront II\" title=\"Follow Star Wars: Battlefront II\"><br \/>\n  Follow Star Wars: Battlefront II<br \/>\n<\/button>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>EA and DICE&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/there-are-lessons-of-brilliance-in-star-wars-battlefront-2\">Star Wars Battlefront 2 ended on a high note<\/a> despite its initial issues, resulting in a dedicated community sticking around in its servers over the years. In 2025, players took things to the next level with <a href=\"https:\/\/kyber.gg\/news\/battlefront-resurgence-day-event\/\">the celebratory &#8216;Resurgence Day&#8217; event<\/a>, which aimed to show the powers that be that there&#8217;s a big enough interest in more Battlefront and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamedeveloper.com\/business\/the-star-wars-battlefront-2-player-surge-exposes-a-major-flaw-in-ea-s-business-model\">generated enough attention<\/a> to be picked up by games media and industry figures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyber.gg\/news\/battlefront-resurgence-day-event-2026\/\">This year, &#8216;Resurgence Day&#8217; is making a return<\/a> on 23rd May, and ahead of it, yesterday&#8217;s Star Wars-themed May the 4th celebrations have already boosted the player count on Steam. At the time of writing, <a href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/app\/1237950\/charts\/#6m\">Battlefront 2&#8217;s 24-hour peak<\/a> sits at 9,383 on Steam alone (players are also active on the EA App and consoles), a marked improvement over the 2k-3k averages of the past few months. We have to go back to the early January post-Christmas period to find another decent peak of around 5,600 players on Steam.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"Star Wars Battlefront 2 World Premier Multiplayer Trailer - E3 2017: EA Play 2017\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BFLjSf2kasY?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/BFLjSf2kasY\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">Star Wars Battlefront 2 World Premier Multiplayer Trailer &#8211; E3 2017: EA Play 2017<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Star Wars Battlefront 2 Multiplayer Trailer<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BFLjSf2kasY\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s still far from the roughly 18k players that showed up on Valve&#8217;s platform for 2025&#8217;s event and the inflated 35,892 peak that happened in June (thanks to a summer sale and viral social media posts). But it&#8217;s already in a better spot in early May this year than it was at the same point in 2025. Again, this doesn&#8217;t include players on consoles and other PC platforms, either, so it&#8217;s pretty good for a 2017 game that spent almost three years struggling to really convince its audience. For reference, <a href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/app\/3065800\/charts\/\">Marathon&#8217;s 24-hour peak is 13,191 players on Steam<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>On top of the official Star Wars Battlefront 2 servers, community-led and modded servers like <a href=\"https:\/\/kyber.gg\/\">Kyber<\/a>&#8216;s (which don&#8217;t stop adding new features and content) will be running hot this month, so &#8216;Resurgence Day&#8217; also feels like the perfect opportunity to try something different if you&#8217;re on PC. It&#8217;s also worth noting that the Resurgence Day event happens the same weekend The Mandalorian &amp; Grogu film storms cinemas worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/companies\/lucasfilm-games\">Lucasfilm Games<\/a> and EA remain silent on the future of the Battlefront series even if a desire seems to be there. Back in 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/star-wars-battlefront-3-dead-as-dice-focuses-fully-on-battlefield-report\">we were explicitly told not to expect a third entry from developer DICE<\/a>, but what if another studio (and publisher) took over? The rights situation looks unclear, but never tell us the odds.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"preferred-source\" data-component=\"preferred-source\">\nLove Eurogamer.net? 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In 2025, players took things to the next level with <a href=\"https:\/\/kyber.gg\/news\/battlefront-resurgence-day-event\/\">the celebratory &#8216;Resurgence Day&#8217; event<\/a>, which aimed to show the powers that be that there&#8217;s a big enough interest in more Battlefront and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamedeveloper.com\/business\/the-star-wars-battlefront-2-player-surge-exposes-a-major-flaw-in-ea-s-business-model\">generated enough attention<\/a> to be picked up by games media and industry figures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyber.gg\/news\/battlefront-resurgence-day-event-2026\/\">This year, &#8216;Resurgence Day&#8217; is making a return<\/a> on 23rd May, and ahead of it, yesterday&#8217;s Star Wars-themed May the 4th celebrations have already boosted the player count on Steam. At the time of writing, <a href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/app\/1237950\/charts\/#6m\">Battlefront 2&#8217;s 24-hour peak<\/a> sits at 9,383 on Steam alone (players are also active on the EA App and consoles), a marked improvement over the 2k-3k averages of the past few months. We have to go back to the early January post-Christmas period to find another decent peak of around 5,600 players on Steam.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"Star Wars Battlefront 2 World Premier Multiplayer Trailer - E3 2017: EA Play 2017\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BFLjSf2kasY?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/BFLjSf2kasY\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">Star Wars Battlefront 2 World Premier Multiplayer Trailer &#8211; E3 2017: EA Play 2017<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Star Wars Battlefront 2 Multiplayer Trailer<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BFLjSf2kasY\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s still far from the roughly 18k players that showed up on Valve&#8217;s platform for 2025&#8217;s event and the inflated 35,892 peak that happened in June (thanks to a summer sale and viral social media posts). But it&#8217;s already in a better spot in early May this year than it was at the same point in 2025. Again, this doesn&#8217;t include players on consoles and other PC platforms, either, so it&#8217;s pretty good for a 2017 game that spent almost three years struggling to really convince its audience. For reference, <a href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/app\/3065800\/charts\/\">Marathon&#8217;s 24-hour peak is 13,191 players on Steam<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>On top of the official Star Wars Battlefront 2 servers, community-led and modded servers like <a href=\"https:\/\/kyber.gg\/\">Kyber<\/a>&#8216;s (which don&#8217;t stop adding new features and content) will be running hot this month, so &#8216;Resurgence Day&#8217; also feels like the perfect opportunity to try something different if you&#8217;re on PC. It&#8217;s also worth noting that the Resurgence Day event happens the same weekend The Mandalorian &amp; Grogu film storms cinemas worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/companies\/lucasfilm-games\">Lucasfilm Games<\/a> and EA remain silent on the future of the Battlefront series even if a desire seems to be there. Back in 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/star-wars-battlefront-3-dead-as-dice-focuses-fully-on-battlefield-report\">we were explicitly told not to expect a third entry from developer DICE<\/a>, but what if another studio (and publisher) took over? The rights situation looks unclear, but never tell us the odds.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home News Star Wars: Battlefront II Star Wars Battlefront 2 player numbers climb again as excitement builds around returning Resurgence Day community event No one&#8217;s ever really gone. 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