JEMC said:
The Friday news! SALES/PLAYER COUNTS & DEALS Monster Hunter Wilds shoots past 1.1 million players on Steam alone in its first 7 hours, making it Capcom's most successful PC drop by over 500,000 hunters and climbing
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/monster-hunter-wilds-steam-concurrent-player-record/
Short of a catastrophic server meltdown, it was almost inevitable Monster Hunter Wilds would smash its way into the Steam record books. But I didn't think it would happen this fast. As of 10:05 pm Pacific on launch day, Wilds has snatched a spot among the most-played games on Steam, surpassing the all-time peak player records of Baldur's Gate 3 (875,343), Hogwarts Legacy (879,308) and New World (913, 634) to take the #10 spot. As of this writing, 920,464 hunters are online beating up their first Chatacabra (or, more likely, messing around in the character creator).
Update, 3:26 am PT: It's not even been 24 hours since Monster Hunter Wilds' PC release—but it's very, very nearly scraped close to 1 million players on Steam in its first six hours. As mentioned in the original story below, Capcom's megafauna-filled mega-release shot to the top 10 rankings of the most-played PC games of all time on Steam in less than two hours.
Update, 4:15 am PT: Barely half an hour ago, I wrote the sentence "I feel like I should note it's not even the weekend yet. So long as things continue, punching through that 1 million ceiling is entirely possible." As if egging on a violent god who struck me down for my hubris, Monster Hunter Wilds had another bump, shooting it to an all-time peak of 1,110,210 at the time of writing. This makes it Capcom's most successful Steam release by over a factor of two, as you can see in the screenshot below. |
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