New World Hit Nearly A Million Players On Sunday

According to today’s Steam stats, New World’s peak player count today hit 913,634 players at some point today. SteamDB backs that number up, putting that peak at about 7pm BST (11am PDT) on Sunday, October 3rd. Apparently those #bignumbers have been enough to make corpo dad proud. Jeff Bezos tweeted on Friday calling New World a success, linking to a CNBS article calling it a smash hit. “After many failures and setbacks in gaming we have a success,” Bezos said. “So proud of the team for the persistence. View setbacks as helpful obstacles that drive learning.” I admit I was expecting a muted response to New World, really. Ed said that its open beta didn’t convince him to drop Final Fantasy XIV. I also wasn’t enticed by an MMO that seemed to be using the aughts playbook, albeit with a bit of fresh action combat and modern beautification. Color me wrong then, all 913,634 of you out there in Aeternum.