The latest looter-shooter on the market, The First Descendant from Korean studio Nexon has just announced that it’s hit 10 million players in just its first week.

A great start for the newest live service title on the market, and exactly the kind of start you want to see if you’re Nexon.

It’s the kind of big launch that could help sustain The First Descendant for a little while, so long as a fraction of those players keep logging on each day.

“We’ve reached 10 million Descendants in just 7 days!” the studio posted on the game’s official Twitter account to announce the news.

“Thank you all for your tremendous support and love. It means everything to us. We will do our best to bring you great experiences. Can’t wait to continue this journey together.”

A strong launch is the first big challenge with a live service game. Now that it’s more then met that, the tough part begins. Keeping that success going and growing.

No one expects it’ll have concurrent player counts in the millions of course, just that it can keep things where they are now, in the hundreds of thousands without huge slowdown.

It’s concurrent player count peak on Steam sits at 264,860 players and that’s just on Steam. Again, just on Steam, it has 179,107 players logged in at the time of writing.

Those are great numbers for a live service game in this modern ultra-competitive landscape. If it can keep that up, even improve it, then Nexon has more a solid hit on their hands.

Posted: Jul 16, 2024 2:45 pm
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Source: https://www.psu.com/news/the-first-descendant-ps5-hit-10-million-players-in-first-week/