Amazon’s new video game New World launched on Tuesday to strong social media buzz, high online engagement, and a player pool that’s risen to well over three-quarters of a million.
The real test, however, will be whether or not anyone’s still playing it in a month.
Still, that didn’t stop Amazon founder Jeff Bezos from congratulating the New World team on its successful launch, and from throwing a little shade at naysayers.
Eight months is a long time in the video game industry, however, and New World is going into its first post-launch weekend with some solid momentum.
On release day, the alternate-history MMORPG had a peak of 707,230 concurrent players on Steam, which is an overall record for 2021. Those numbers have only gotten higher over the course of the week; on Friday morning, at time of writing, SteamDB tracked almost 800,000 simultaneous players on New World.
Anecdotally, Amazon seems to have quietly ironed out the queue issues that New World had on launch day. I was able to jump directly into the game around 12:30 p.m. PT without having to wait to log into the server, despite the game having nearly 100,000 more active players at the time. Amazon has reportedly gone so far as to double the available servers for North America.
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