What does the future hold for Amazon Games’ RPG?
Forbes’ recent analysis of data on SteamCharts has shown us that Amazon Games’ new RPG has been losing around 135,000 players a week since its initial launch at the end of September. It hit an impressive concurrent player peak of 913,027 players on October 3rd; however, almost half of its one million player base has been lost since then.
By monitoring player numbers at the same time on every Sunday since New World launched, the number of players simultaneously online has fallen week on week from 913K players to 726K, 608K, and – on October 23 – 508K, which is a little less than half of the player numbers the game saw at the start of the month.
Player numbers fluctuate all the time, of course, particularly for single-player games that might not have much replayability about them. On the other hand, New World is an MMO. Therefore, it would likely expect to retain players, particularly as it’s currently sitting on a “mostly positive” aggregate score from 138,000+ players reviews on Steam.
This continuous outflow of concurrent players may be due to a host of reasons. Any of the games’ glitches and bugs could be responsible, whether it is related to server queue times, gear clipping, messages crashing players games, bricked GPUs… who knows. Will New World continue to be successful in the long run? I guess we just have to wait to find out.
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