'New World' almost reaches a million concurrent players on Steam

Well, it seems as though Amazon Games’ MMORPG New World is a hit if the numbers are any indication. During its launch on Tuesday, New World catapulted into Steam’s 10 ten most popular games, with over 700,000 players logged in concurrently at its peak. 

According to SteamDB, New World’s all-time peak concurrent player count is 707,230, which puts it just behind Steam’s top-dog Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’s peak today of 757,827 simultaneous players. It’s an impressive feat, as games rarely ever reach those sort of numbers on Steam. Especially an MMORPG on its first day!

Unsurprisingly, its developers are struggling to meet the demand, leaving a disclaimer about server instability and how they are trying to get everything ship-shape. 

“It has been an unbelievable 24 hours and the support for New World that we’ve seen so far has been incredible,” Amazon Games said in a statement. “We understand that some players are experiencing lengthy queue times and we are working hard on a few things to help address these issues.”

Check out the entire message for yourself below.

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— New World (@playnewworld) September 28, 2021

Where all the interest for New World came from is anybody’s guess. However, it might be a combination of World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy XIV players looking for something different, as new MMORPGs rarely come out these days.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.