The success of the first beta run for Battlefield 6 has had a positive effect on EA as a company when it comes to its financials. As caught by Mp1st, in light of the beta that kicked off on August 9 and ended on August 11, as well as in anticipation for the second beta slated to start on August 14 and running until August 19, share prices for EA rose by around 4.7 percent. This has brought EA’s share prices up to $176.11 per share.
In its totality, the new share price has also raised EA’s market capitalisation up to $41.94 billion. Jefferies analyst James Heaney has largely credited the first beta of Battlefield 6 for this, including aspects like stable server performance and a positive reception by the player base at large. “This weekend’s beta test for Battlefield 6 was a success for EA,” he said. “Importantly the server performance was stable, and the player reception screened positive.”
The positive sentiment for Battlefield 6 will likely grow since Battlefield lead producer David Sirling has also confirmed that EA will be testing the much-requested server browser soon. While he didn’t give complete details about what “soon” means in this context, he did talk about the hybrid approach that the server browser will be taking in showing players persistent servers as well as active matches that they can join.
“It’s a server browser, it contains servers, some are custom experiences, some are verified (which is what most are looking for on this topic),” he wrote on social media. “The combination of the pool of the persistent servers and the spun up ones is not very useful. Matchmaking servers spin up in seconds (get filled with players), and spin down after game is over. That couple of seconds plus when servers lose alot of players mid game is the only time you can join, which makes it a tricky combination (and full of queuing to join issues).”
In another update, EA had also revealed that its Javelin Anticheat system had been quite successful in the first run of the beta, confirming that 330,000 attempts at cheating and tampering had been blocked in the first couple of days of the beta alone. The company also detailed why Secure Boot was such a hard requirement for the PC version of Battlefield 6, since it helps strengthen Javelin Anticheat over a period of time and presents one more barrier that cheaters have to figure out a way around.
“On Secure Boot, I want to be clear that Secure Boot is not, and was not intended to be a silver bullet,” reads the post. “Secure Boot is how you’re helping us build up our arsenal. It’s another barrier that helps us make it harder for cheat developers to create cheat programs, and makes it easier for us to detect it when they do.”
Battlefield 6 is in development for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, and is slated for release on October 10. In the meantime, check out what we liked and didn’t like in the first beta for Battlefield 6.
