The newest PlayStation-published live-service shooter Harmony is right here, and launch numbers are trying fairly unhealthy to this point.
In terms of concurrent participant counts, numbers do not at all times matter, significantly for single-player video games, however live-service titles are a unique story. Valve’s new hero shooter Impasse, which it lastly formally revealed final week, had a concurrent participant rely peak of 89,000 simply yesterday, in accordance with SteamDB, a really spectacular determine for a recreation that is not even out but. Nonetheless, whereas it has been playable for a short time now, so long as you have obtained an invitation, this weekend did have an precise launch for one more live-service hero shooter, Harmony. Besides, its Steam numbers will not be doing so good, amassing solely 697 gamers at one time on the sport’s launch day.
Numbers simply obtained worse over the weekend, once you’d anticipate extra gamers to login to test it out, however nope, Saturday was worse than Friday, and Sunday worse than Saturday. That Friday launch determine can also be fairly upsetting for one more motive: it is smaller than final yr’s absolute trainwreck, and studio ruining, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, which has a peak of 758 gamers (which it acquired when it launched and subsequently by no means topped).