According to SteamDB, New World hit its all-time peak of 200,856 concurrent players on Sunday, and around 90,000 are in-game now. It’s currently the seventh most-popular game on Steam, above the likes of Rust, Team Fortress 2 and Warframe. These stats absolutely blow Crucible out of the water, which saw a peak of around 25,000 players during its own beta last year. Players are a little more hungry for a new MMO than an odd mishmash of team shooter and MOBA, it seems. From what I hear so far, New World is a pretty good time too. In his New World preview, Ed says it has about as much in common with Valheim as it does World Of Warcraft, and has some liberating yet meaty combat to boot. He was also surprised at how much he enjoyed the crafting. If you’d like to try out New World for yourself, the beta runs until August 2nd. Unfortunately, it’s a closed beta you have to buy the game to get access to. Find it on Steam, if you’re interested. Also, it’s worth noting that New World has been bricking EVGA’s Nvidia RTX 3090 cards, but EVGA have said they’ll be replacing any affected GPUs. New World is set to release in full on August 31st. Personally, I’ll be giving it a couple months to make sure it doesn’t disappear before I decide whether or not to buy it. You know, just in case.
