“Arc Raiders” was officially released, with sales exceeding 4 million copies, and the peak number of people online at the same time across all platforms reached 700,000

Arclight Guide Less than two weeks after its release, more than 4 million copies have been sold worldwide, cementing its commercial success.

Publisher Nexon confirms the milestone Press releasewhich also revealed that the number of concurrent players on all platforms of “Evacuation Shooting” has reached 700,000.

Embark Studio's shooter releases within a day Steam concurrent players peak at 264,673making it one of the biggest extraction shooters ever released on the Valve platform. The record was broken again over the weekend According to Valve’s official data, the number of simultaneous online users of “Arc Raiders” reached a peak of 462,488. We now know that, combined with users on consoles, the real number is closer to three-quarters of a million players.

Nexon added that Arc Raiders has “maintained the #1 global sales position on Steam” since its launch on October 30, and congratulated developer Embark, writing: “We've been impressed by the enthusiasm shown by our player community and look forward to building on that excitement with our content plans, including new maps, ARC vehicles, weapons, and missions that will begin rolling out this month.”

“I thought I would only play Arc Raiders for five or six hours on launch day before sitting down to write this preliminary review in progress, but after a few games I suddenly couldn't help myself – and before I knew it, I was 10 hours into the game,” we wrote in IGN's Arc Raiders review in progress.

“Without a doubt, this is the extraction shooter I'm most obsessed with (and I've played a lot of them), with clean and tense gunplay, a progression system that's by far incredibly satisfying, and a loot game that left me fretting about what to put in my backpack and what to leave behind.”

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