Arc Raiders Hits 16 Million Sales, Publisher Has High Hopes for October Update

Arc Raiders has deed 16 cardinal sales, an unthinkable effect for the extraction shooter that has proven truthful palmy for developer Embark and steadfast Nexon.

In its latest acceptable of fiscal results, Nexon said Arc Raiders income had been “extraordinary,” and that it was the astir palmy caller merchandise released successful institution history.

We’re present six months since the motorboat of Arc Raiders, and heavy into its inevitable “dead game” statement contempt the information it remains 1 of the astir played games connected Steam (neither Sony nor Microsoft marque subordinate numbers public). Yes, subordinate numbers connected Valve’s level aren’t what they were during Arc Raiders' explosive launch, but we’re inactive talking astir a crippled that tin regularly deed 100,000 highest concurrent players connected PC.

Yesterday, Embark announced that Arc Raiders volition lone person 2 large contented updates each year, sparking complaints from immoderate wrong the community. The adjacent update, Frozen Trail, is owed successful October. It adds caller locations to explore, caller enemies, caller expansions to the communicative and lore, and updates to the game's progression systems.

"Going forward, we've made the determination to merchandise large updates doubly a twelvemonth – larger successful scale, much impactful, with the extremity to genuinely alteration however you play the game," Embark explained. "Don’t worry, a dedicated unrecorded work squad volition proceed moving Arc Raiders day-to-day: regular unrecorded updates, positive equilibrium fixes, bug fixes, store updates, and subordinate events aren't going anywhere.

"This further improvement abstraction besides allows america to put much profoundly successful the wellness of Arc Raiders, from progression and system balancing to just play and anti-cheat efforts. We cognize these are foundational to the experience, particularly successful a crippled wherever each brushwood and extraction matters."

Clearly, Nexon has precocious hopes for the October update. In its fiscal report, Nexon said Arc Raiders is “now settling successful with a ample and profoundly loyal subordinate community,” but the Frozen Trail update volition “reshape” however the crippled is played, “which is large for reactivating users who finished the archetypal game, and for attracting all-new players.”

The idea, then, is to usage this update to person lapsed players to instrumentality to Arc Raiders, and possibly bring successful immoderate caller players successful the process. But that's not each Arc Raiders has going on. It's inactive updating its different unrecorded work shooter, The Finals, and, according to Nexon, it has 2 caller games successful the aboriginal signifier of development.

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