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By the end of December, the Steam concurrent player base for Battlefield 2042 decreased to about 19,000, being overtaken by 2018's Battlefield V in daily player numbers. [77] By mid-April 2022, the game's player count had declined even further, dropping below 1,000 at certain points. [ 78 ]
Galyonkin is able to track the number of concurrent players for a game over time, allowing him to determine a "Hype Factor" and "Surprise Factor" for games based on how much their player base shrunk or grew, respectively, after release, and correlate that to sales estimates. [18]
With the increased ease of maps updates, player familiarity which each specific map type is decreased, requiring players to focus on map strategy during the tactical window prior to deployment, heightening the necessity for pre-match teamwork. [4] Due Process League is the primary form of competitive e-sports in the game. [7]
Eurogamer.pt reported the game appeared to launch poorly on Steam with a peak of 83 concurrent players. [25] In an interview with Gamer.no , director Ragnar Tørnquist said that the game sales have significantly exceeded those reported online but fallen below the studio's internal short-term expectations.
On release day, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II topped the Steam top-sellers list. The game reached a peak concurrent player count on Steam of 159,351 players, beating Kingdom Come: Deliverance by more than 60,000 players. [58] A day after release, it had sold one million units. [59]
When Marvel Rivals season 1 started, the game reached 644,269 concurrent players on Steam. [ 83 ] [ 85 ] [ 86 ] This made it the 14th highest game of all time by this metric. [ 85 ] [ 86 ] Microsoft revealed Marvel Rivals was one of the games on Xbox with the highest single-day active users in 2024.
[1] [6] [7] It achieved the second-highest concurrent player count of all games ever played on Steam with over 1.3 million players. [8] This led to long queues and a new server region for Europe was introduced. [9] Lost Ark cost around US$ 85 million to develop. [10] The game received generally favorable reviews.
Popular video games such as Diablo III, Super Mario Run, and Starcraft 2 employ always-on DRM by requiring players to connect to the internet to play, even in single-player mode. Reviews of Diablo III criticized its use of always-on DRM. [1] [2] As with Diablo III, SimCity (2013) experienced bugs at its launch due to always-on DRM. [3]