Arc Raiders server slam Steam numbers prove the extraction shooter is gonna be October’s other major game

Simply a few hours in the past, Arc Raiders servers went offline after a weekend of testing. The sport hosted a three-day server slam event that included very restricted content material, and was primarily designed to push servers to their limits and check the sport’s infrastructure.

No less than by way of uncooked participant numbers, the occasion has been a hit, attracting extra gamers than the extraction shooter has ever seen with any of its earlier assessments.

In fact, all earlier assessments had been, to various levels, closed or invite-only, which restricted the quantity of people that might entry them. The server slam, however, was open to everybody throughout all platforms.

Contemplating the anticipation the sport has within the shooter house, particularly from gamers looking for an accessible, polished extraction shooter, it’s no shock that the check was as common because it was. In accordance with SteamDB, the server slam attracted 189,668 concurrent gamers at its peak on Friday.

That is effectively past what the May tech test managed to attract, although with the apparent caveat that it was invite-only.

All that curiosity additionally helped push Arc Raiders into Steam’s global top sellers list, the place the sport at the moment occupies the quantity three spot, simply behind Counter-Strike 2 and Battlefield 6. It’s additionally value noting that the sport’s commonplace version is the one charting so extremely, which, contemplating the record is sorted by income, is a giant deal. In essence, reaching such a excessive spot with a $40 price ticket signifies that it has bought extra copies than a $60 or $70 sport in a comparable spot.

This all bodes very effectively for the sport’s launch, which has an opportunity to beat these figures, as we’ve not too long ago seen with Battlefield 6 beating its own beta records at launch, regardless of one being free and the opposite paid.

Not too lengthy left now. Arc Raiders arrives October 30 on PC, PS5, and Xbox Sequence X/S.