The analytics agency estimates that on the launch date of the Frozen Path replace, which was the identical day as the beginning of the free weekend, Arc Raiders noticed a sizeable bump in every day energetic customers, from round 599,000 to 944,000, with that climbing to as excessive as 1.6 million DAUs by October 12, when the free weekend ended. Virtually unexpectedly, nevertheless, the extraction shooter’s highest every day energetic person rely was on October 14, the day after the beginning of the test period for the new PvE game mode, suggesting that this will likely have been a robust driver for avid gamers who’ve beforehand picked up the sport solely to drop it once more later.
SteamDB’s player count charts additionally present a notable improve in peak concurrent participant rely that coincides with the PvE take a look at’s begin, with the sport going from 152,547 peak concurrent gamers the day earlier than to 164,228 on October 13. It is value noting that there was a 50% low cost energetic for Arc Raiders between October 8 and 16, though Alinea’s information additionally signifies that this improve in Arc Raiders participant counts has resulted in a further 150,000 sport gross sales that resulted in round $3 million of income from sport gross sales alone.
