Steam's Deadlock just "officially announced" and "released"...in alpha...CLOSED alpha. You need an invite.
There are currently 55k people playing, with a peak of 64k. Heck, Deadlock had 30k before it was even announced.
Concord still (on Steam) hasn't cracked seven...hundred. Didn't even crack five hundred today, and is currently under three hundred on Steam.
Out of sick curiosity, I just did another comparison. CoD: Black Ops 3 (from 2015) still has 6k+ people playing at the moment, with a daily high of almost 10k. A game from 2015 has more than 20x the players, and 18x the daily peak.
And this is all despite ad campaigns plastering Concord banners everywhere. I don't recall ever seeing a launch quite this bad. I don't even know how they did it.
Whatever you do don't do Battlefield 4, the funny thing is it's not a terrible game at all despite how bad the installation process is with all the DLCs, however the admins who run the servers are infamous for being monumental douches.
If it's not horrible weapon restrictions it's chat filters that will auto-ban you making it thoroughly impossible to play which is a shame because Battlefield 4 was my absolute favourite multiplayer game. I preferred hardcore mode above all else because it got rid of that stupid 3D spotting mechanic and meant you could pull all kinds of sneaky shit it was great.
Battlefield 1 is not as bad with the admin stuff however the official servers especially are infested with Chinese script kiddies running auto-aim hacks and shooting people across the map and it's blatant. Now bearing in mind this information 'could' be out of date because I haven't played the game for a decade but be wary about people who are trying to advertise these games as alive because they're really not.
There was this strange trend awhile back with youtubers were a bunch of them were all trying to claim BF4 for example was alive and had people playing then when I actually checked my own region it was completely dead. By the way I'm writing all of this because I'll admit I'm basically the RL equivalent of the colonel in Battlefield Friends lol I loved the Battlefield series.
I am also a lover of thr Battlefield series! BF4 was the last great one IMHO. Yeah it had its problems at launch, but Dice LA managed to iron a lot of them out.
I am well aware of, and can put up with, skeezy server admits. But thanks for the warning!
P.S. I'm more like the Engineer from Battlefield friends. I definitely have my shit bucket colonel wings, though!