Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Has Broken The Record For The Highest Concurrent Steam Player Count Of Any FF Single-Player Title
has been available for PC for less than a week and it's already broken the record for the most concurrent players in a single-player title. Although the title was released on February 29 of last year, the second installment in the highly anticipated remake of the classic title took nearly a year to make its way to the PC. It seems that players were more than ready for the title, as many users flocked to the title as soon as it became available on Steam.
was released on PC on January 23. In that time span, the title managed to reach an all-time peak of 40,564 fans playing at the same time, according to SteamDB (spotted by Eurogamer). This unseats the two most recent titles, and, which each had a peak of 29k and 27k concurrent players, respectively. The success of may push Square Enix to aim to bring the third and final part of the title to the PC sooner, a trend that it's already on track for as took nearly two years to be ported to the PC.
The success of the title may be due to players wanting to continue the tale of Cloud, Aerith, Tifa, Barrett, and the rest of the team. director Naoki Hamaguchi thinks that the game is also seeing such a positive reception thanks, in part, to mods. Speaking to Automation Media, Hamaguchi said that he sometimes uses mods himself and understands the appeal as a PC gamer.
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth has finally come to PC, and it is every bit as good as it was on the console. Any changes are only improvements.
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