It seems to be like EA FC 24 may even have a real competitor on their palms, with STRIKERZ INC revealing that over a million gamers jumped onto the pitch for UFL‘s first open beta weekend.

In line with STRIKERZ, 1,320,000 gamers downloaded the beta and created their membership, with over 5.5 million minutes performed and 9,986,206 targets scored—not dangerous for UFL‘s first public outing. It’s no shock that the football-mad nations of the UK, Brazil, and Germany led the best way in participant numbers, with the USA and France filling out the highest 5.

It additionally ought to come as a shock that the preferred participant within the beta was UFL‘s frontman Cristiano Ronaldo. In truth, it was by no means going to be anybody else.

As for the beta itself, evaluations have been fairly optimistic. The Final Group-style sport is unquestionably not as polished as EA FC 24, but it surely undoubtedly feels good to play, and is a strong basis for STRIKERZ to construct on. Whereas the numbers are spectacular for one weekend, it’s price remembering that EA Sports activities’ soccer providing reportedly logged 11.3 million customers in its first week, so there’s a protracted technique to go to reign in EA FC.

Nonetheless, it’s good to see some precise competitors within the soccer market. Konami’s resolution to kill the Professional Evolution Soccer sequence and change it with eFootball basically killed all of its momentum, leaving FIFA after which EA FC to change into the undisputed king of the style.

With UFL now making waves, and a rumored FIFA sport developed by 2K, we’d lastly have a struggle on our palms for the highest spot, and the competitors might push EA Sports activities to make main enhancements to their franchise.