Battlefield Studios has followed through on its plan to discourage XP farming servers in Battlefield 6. As of this morning, many servers advertising themselves as "XP farms" or "all bots" have had their XP privileges taken away—you can still play on them, but you'll only earn a pittance of precious experience. Some noticed the XP purge actually began on October 17, the same day BF Studios announced other XP changes, but now it's official.
The change comes after a week of XP farms being the most popular way to bypass Battlefield 6's career grind. Battlefield 6's Portal browser promised a slice of '07 FPS culture: custom rulesets, weird maps, and community servers with a revolving door of regulars. That all went up in smoke on launch day, as XP farm lobbies started cropping up en masse, clogging up all the server space so badly that nobody else could host anything for days.
We're seeing BF Studios attempt to thread a tricky needle here. The goal of letting players progress normally in modified Portal matches remains intact, but servers it considers to be exploiting XP are being flagged seemingly by hand.
The kerfuffle is already demonstrating the strange consequences of Battlefield 6 existing in two worlds: In some ways, it's a chill FPS from a bygone era that lets you play however you want, so who cares if some folks are inflating their stats with bots? But Battlefield 6 is also a live service game that sells double XP tokens and, soon, battle passes—you can't make XP too readily available, or nobody will pay for tier skips.
Battlefield 6's first season begins on October 28 with a new map, a few new guns, a small-scale mode, and a premium battle pass.
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