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New World player counts keep climbing, nearly a million concurrents on SundayMaking corpo dad proud, too
Making corpo dad proud, too
As MMOs often do at launch,New Worldhad busy servers and long queues to get in game last week. That’s certainly not stopping folks from attempting to play though, as New World hit another concurrent player record for itself. It was already themost popular game on Steamlast week with over 700,000 concurrent players. As of yesterday, New World’s peak player count was nearly a million players. We don’t know how many of those folks are hanging around in those server queues, of course, but they’re all at least trying to play.
According totoday’s Steam stats, New World’s peak player count today hit 913,634 players at some point today. SteamDBbacks that number up, putting that peak at about 7pm BST (11am PDT) on Sunday, October 3rd.
New World Gameplay - playing Amazon’s new MMO from the beginningWatch on YouTube
New World Gameplay - playing Amazon’s new MMO from the beginning
There’s been quite a frenzy for New World since its launch day. To help get more players into the game, Amazon have been taking all sorts of steps such as adding anAFK timerto boot inactive players, toadding more servers, todisabling character creationon servers that are already full.
Apparently those #bignumbers have been enough to make corpo dad proud. Jeff Bezostweeted on Fridaycalling New World a success, linking to a CNBS article calling it a smash hit. “After many failures and setbacks in gaming we have a success,” Bezos said. “So proud of the team for the persistence. View setbacks as helpful obstacles that drive learning.”
One of those big setbacks was Amazon’s free-to-play shooter Crucible whichdid not come closeto similar concurrent player counts andeventually got cannedlast November only a few months after launching in May.
