Simply a few hours in the past, Arc Raiders servers went offline after a weekend of testing. The sport hosted a three-day server slam occasion that included very restricted content material, and was primarily designed to push servers to their limits and check the sport’s infrastructure.
No less than by way of uncooked participant numbers, the occasion has been a hit, attracting extra gamers than the extraction shooter has ever seen with any of its earlier exams.
After all, all earlier exams have been, to various levels, closed or invite-only, which restricted the quantity of people that may entry them. The server slam, alternatively, was open to everybody throughout all platforms.
Contemplating the anticipation the sport has within the shooter house, particularly from gamers in search of an accessible, polished extraction shooter, it’s no shock that the check was as standard because it was. In line with SteamDB, the server slam attracted 189,668 concurrent gamers at its peak on Friday.
That is effectively past what the Could tech check managed to draw, although with the apparent caveat that it was invite-only.
All that curiosity additionally helped push Arc Raiders into Steam’s world high sellers listing, the place the sport at present occupies the quantity three spot, simply behind Counter-Strike 2 and Battlefield 6. It’s additionally price noting that the sport’s commonplace version is the one charting so extremely, which, contemplating the listing is sorted by income, is a giant deal. In essence, attaining such a excessive spot with a $40 price ticket signifies that it has offered extra copies than a $60 or $70 sport in a comparable spot.
This all bodes very effectively for the sport’s launch, which has an opportunity to beat these figures, as we’ve lately seen with Battlefield 6 beating its personal beta data at launch, regardless of one being free and the opposite paid.
Not too lengthy left now. Arc Raiders arrives October 30 on PC, PS5, and Xbox Collection X/S.
