Battlefield REDSEC is Not What Players Want

Battlefield 6 has easily been one of the biggest games of 2025. Of course, long-time fans of the series were always going to give it a try, but the latest entry has pulled in enough interest to make it one of the more talked-about titles of the year. However, while Battlefield REDSEC was released shortly after Battlefield 6's full release, it hasn't garnered nearly the same amount of attention or conversation. Overall, players have little to no interest in REDSEC, but why is this?

Not the Battlefield Experience People Want

If you want to keep things simple, people who come to Battlefield 6 are looking for the gigantic war experience. Taking out the large-scale warfare is essentially taking the Battlefield out of Battlefield, but that’s what has happened in REDSEC.

Taking the two very large teams and segmenting them into many smaller teams doesn’t feel like a war game. It feels like Fortnite, and anyone can go to Fortnite if they want that. The small teams have also been an issue for many players, because there is no solo queue in REDSEC, so people are forced to play with others that they don’t know, leading to many complaints. In a battle royale, your team has much more of a spotlight put on their performance, causing more headaches when someone underperforms.

While REDSEC is a free-to-play mode for anyone, it is going to constantly bring about the question of monetization. Free-to-play games need to make money somehow, but Battlefield 6 is a premium game. There’s an odd push and pull at play here, where one side is likely going to overperform compared to the other, and one of them has a $70 pricetag that is already going to give them a headstart in having a better light in the eyes of EA’s higher-ups.

Chasing Money That Isn't There

As is the case with so many other video games released these days, Battlefield REDSEC is another attempt by EA to chase money in a lucrative market that they will never control. Free-to-play battle royales have definitely been a massive success, but only for a select few. With names like Fortnite, Call of Duty Warzone, Apex Legends, and PUBG filling up people’s attention for the better part of a decade now, there isn’t much room for your battle royale to be the talk of the town. However, this is EA we’re talking about, so they’re going to keep trying to make Battlefield the only game anyone ever plays. Chasing the battle royale trend in 2025 is how you come up with Battlefield REDSEC.

With live service games, it’s not enough for a video game to be popular for a certain duration and then steadily fall off. It needs to constantly be the only game you care about, at least in the eyes of a business executive. Just after launch here, REDSEC is fine, but we’ve all seen the story played out way too many times where a live service game gets shut down or support is ended for it early. That isn’t likely to happen for Battlefield 6, but it’s a very real outcome that can be in the future for REDSEC. As many times as anyone from EA wants to say something along the lines of “this is just the beginning,” REDSEC has a shelf life that only goes down the more uninspired players are by what’s available in it.

Of course, we are talking about Electronic Arts here. It’s no secret that when it comes to corporations in video games, it is among the more prominent when it comes to chasing trends and not really doing much in the way of innovating. That’s why a new battle royale from the company just being fine at best is the most unsurprising thing you could think of in 2025.

Was This the Best Use of Resources?

It’s no secret that the entire video game industry is essentially on fire, which also extends heavily into EA. Outside of the annual football and soccer titles they release, Battlefield 6 is the lone new release from the soon-to-be Saudi Arabian-owned company in a while that seems to be a bona fide success. The question then becomes, was making a battle royale alongside the base game really the best way to manage things?

Battlefield 6 is an enjoyable game, but it’s not perfect by any means. Could that base game experience have been better if the team working on REDSEC instead had helped with the main game? Of course, there are so many different aspects of game development that are too complex to really know for sure how things could have been, but as of now, the mediocre at best response to Battlefield REDSEC is a pretty easily foreseen outcome when you consider where we are in the gaming industry today.

Where Does Battlefield Redsec Go From Here?

Battlefield REDSEC’s free-to-play shooter launch went about as expected. It’s not a terrible game, but it’s not special in any way, and it’s not what the Battlefield community wants. EA isn’t afraid to pull the plug on failing games, but I doubt that’s a category that REDSEC falls into right away. We know that the upcoming new owners of EA want to dive deeper into microtransactions and AI development, so it’s really hard to see a future where REDSEC really becomes better. There may be a bright future ahead, and maybe Battlefield Studio has some great content plans down the road, but as of now, it’s just another multiplayer game that only deserves to be talked about because of the name it shares with Battlefield 6.