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Arc Raiders just keeps on kicking ass out their in multiplayer land, this time breaking its own record for concurrent players on Steam. It’s unusual for any game to continue gaining more players after its initial launch surge, and yet that is exactly what Arc Raiders is doing.
According to SteamDB, the game hit a new peak concurrent player record of 481,966 on November 16. Its previous best was 462,488 on November 9.
By comparison, Battlefield 6 has managed a higher peak of 747,440 close to its launch, but those players have been dropping off slowly. Yesterday, it hit a concurrent count of just under 300,000.
In other words, Arc Raiders is doing exceptionally well, especially as it’s going up directly against Battlefield 6 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. There’s a couple of likely reasons for this, starting with the recent community event to unlock a new map. The community managed to smash that challenge in a single day, even while the developers quickly worked to make it harder.
The other reason is probably just word of mouth. Arc Raiders is being streamed by big names and holds a great rating on Steam’s user reviews. There’s a solid roadmap of content yet to come this year, so there’s every chance Arc Raiders will break half a million concurrent players on Steam.
And let’s not forget, there’s all the console players, too. God knows how high the total player count is right now, but on November 10, Embark confirmed that he managed 700,000 concurrent players across all platforms.
By November 6 the game was reported to have already sold 2.5 million copies. Developer Embark then announced November 11 that it had sold 4 million copies of Arc Raiders.
