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19 million players picked up Star Wars Battlefront 2 free from the Epic Store

Free stuff is popular, yes, but this is even more popular than usual

popular that the servers pretty much went all Death-Star-at-the-end-of-A-New-Hope, and now we know exactly how many people grabbed it.

EA says that over 19 million players picked up Battlefront 2 as part of the promotion. Yeah, people like The Sims 4 has had around 30 million players over its lifetime.) This is, at least, a pretty solid idea of how popular things other than Fortnite can get on Epic's launcher.

Despite the new popularity, EA reaffirms that the game has already had its "final content drop". Last year, along with that last update, DICE said it was moving on from Battlefront in order to focus on the next Battlefield game.

allow Ubisoft to make a big, open-world Star Wars title.

https://twitter.com/EAStarWars/status/1353802773905760256

Battlefront 2 is now available for purchase on Epic (or Steam, or Origin), if you feel like you're missing out.