Elden Ring Reaches 600K Players an Hour After Launch
After several years of anticipation, fans of FromSoftware will finally be able to get their hands on Elden Ring. While the game is set to launch on the 25th, Elden Ring is already available to purchase on Steam and has already managed to achieve an impressive milestone. In a matter of hours, Elden Ring managed to accrue hundreds of thousands of concurrent players.
Of the many games in ongoing development over the years, Elden Ring is one that many in the gaming community have been looking forward to. Not only because FromSoftware is the development studio behind Elden Ring, but also due to the fact that the game's world and story were written in collaboration with George R.R. Martin, the author of the Game of Thrones series. Thus, there were ample reasons for a number of players to be interested in Elden Ring, but what's truly impressive is just how many people began playing the game after it launched.
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Elden Ring was made available to purchase on PC much earlier than on console platforms, and within the first hour of the game going live on Steam, there were well over six-hundred thousand concurrent users playing Elden Ring. In just twenty minutes of Elden Ring going live on Steam, the game had a little under two-hundred thousand users playing the game.
In retrospect, it makes a lot of sense for Elden Ring to have such a high player base already. The anticipation for this game has been percolating since 2019 and for the longest time, no new information regarding Elden Ring was revealed until two years afterward. The excitement surrounding Elden Ring got to the point where an entire game development studio gave its employees a day off just so they
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