Amazon’s MMO New World hit 200,000 concurrent players over the weekend

The beta for Amazon’s upcoming MMORPG New World is in full swing now, and it lastly appears as if they’ve a sport on their fingers which may not must be un-released. On Sunday, over 200,000 gamers descended into New World, and it is at present sat within the prime ten most-played video games on Steam. For reference, that is about eight instances the variety of gamers Amazon’s ill-fated hero shooter Crucible ever had (earlier than it will definitely bought canned).

In response to SteamDB, New World hit its all-time peak of 200,856 concurrent gamers on Sunday, and round 90,000 are in-game now. It is at present the seventh most-popular game on Steam, above the likes of Rust, Staff Fortress 2 and Warframe.

These stats completely blow Crucible out of the water, which noticed a peak of around 25,000 players throughout its personal beta final yr. Gamers are somewhat extra hungry for a brand new MMO than an odd mishmash of staff shooter and MOBA, it appears.

From what I hear to date, New World is a fairly good time too. In his New World preview, Ed says it has about as a lot in frequent with Valheim because it does World Of Warcraft, and has some liberating but meaty fight in addition. He was additionally stunned at how much he enjoyed the crafting.

If you would like to check out New World for your self, the beta runs till August 2nd. Sadly, it is a closed beta it’s important to purchase the sport to get entry to. Discover it on Steam, in case you’re .

Maybe New World would be the triumphant survivor of Amazon’s try to get into video games. Although I do not need to converse too quickly, as a result of their monitor document to date contains Crucible, which went into beta, was launched, bought pulled again into beta, and then swiftly un-released. Additionally they cancelled their Lord Of The Rings MMO, and their 4v4 MOBA Breakaway.

Additionally, it is value noting that New World has been bricking EVGA’s Nvidia RTX 3090 cards, however EVGA have mentioned they’ll be replacing any affected GPUs.

New World is about to launch in full on August thirty first. Personally, I will be giving it a pair months to verify it would not disappear earlier than I determine whether or not or to not purchase it. You realize, simply in case.