The call to remove the single-player campaign from Battlefield 6 makes total sense.

Games are huge these days. It's not uncommon to see triple-A blockbusters taking up 80GB or more on consoles or PCs after everything is installed. Knowing this, unless you want to get your digital pants down, you often need to know how much space is being used at any given time.

Over the years, I've spent too much time uninstalling games I was trying to play because I needed the space they would take up, or suddenly realized I could only manage a few tasks at a time without spending money on an additional hard drive or SSD. My gaming life is more enjoyable when I have more memory to play with and less worry about managing every console I own every time a new game comes out.

For Battlefield 6, which launched last week on PS5, Xbox, and PC, EA and DICE have implemented options designed to reduce install sizes over time, but players appear to be taking it the wrong way.

Why are people excited about the Battlefield 6 single-player campaign?

If you've read any reviews of Battlefield 6 (including ours), you'll know that the single-player campaign is nothing special. Compared to the excellent multiplayer, the weak narrative, predictable set pieces, and lack of polish are hard to ignore. There was a clear effort to take us on a globe-trotting adventure full of gunfights and explosions, but it's hard to put it on the same level as other entries in the series or what Call of Duty has been doing over the years. It stinks a bit, so it's likely not many players will play it anyway.

So if you installed this app while downloading the full game, you might want to save some space and immediately nuke the campaign out of orbit. However, if you decide to play through the solo campaign to the end, when you return to the main menu, you'll see the 'Uninstall' option by default to save space. People online are already treating this as some sort of deserved dunk. It's as if Battlefield 6 is painfully aware of how mediocre its campaign really is and can't wait for everyone to get rid of it.

Regardless of quality, this is not the case at all. Instead, I see this game as a modern triple-A title with the brains to actually remind players that they're leaving a 15GB install space on their console that won't be used for any further purpose. We can utilize that space, and here's a game that ensures we don't forget about it.

So what is the problem? For many people, I think it's the second fiddle position that single-player shooter campaigns have occupied over the past decade.

A single-player shooting campaign deserves respect

It's no secret that many people choose Battlefield for its multiplayer only. This is why 2042 removed modes entirely, while Battlefield 1 and 5 featured War Stories that focused on individual characters and mechanics instead of long narratives. It seemed to me that DICE and EA were starting to understand where their priorities should be and were taking big steps in that direction. While it makes a lot of sense to use resources in this way, we've also seen audiences develop unfair opinions about the role of single-player in Battlefield and how it's always going to be bad with each new game.

While that's often the case, it feels like they're unnecessarily throwing the campaign for online influence under the bus here, rather than recognizing a pretty innovative means of informing players about useless game installs. Now that the campaign is over, I'm not trying to act like I'll never experience it again, but the vast majority of players probably won't. Unless you're looking for the Platinum trophy, just erase that trophy from your hard drive and be done with it.

Battlefield 6 is actually very smart here, so it's annoying that final online gamers treat it like a boring joke.

Battlefield 6

4.0/5

released

October 10, 2025

ESRB

Ages 17+ / Blood and gore, intense violence, strong language, in-app purchases, user interaction

developer

Battlefield Studio

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