MultiVersus relaunches to more than 114,000 concurrent players on Steam
MultiVersus has seen over 100K concurrent players return to the game following its relaunch.
According to independent Steam tracker SteamDB, the game has seen 114,515 concurrent players return to the game. This is almost 75% of the game’s all-time peak at the game’s original launch.
MultiVersus was a hit at launch, seeing 153,433 concurrent players on Steam at its peak. Despite this, a dwindling player base and other issues saw the game close down for almost a year.
The game returned on May 28 with three new playable fighters; The Joker from DC Comics, Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th, and Banana Guard from Adventure Time.
A fourth character, Agent Smith from The Matrix, will be added to the game later in its first season.
While some of these characters have come as a surprise to players, others have been expected for some time due to references to them being datamined out of the game.
This is an issue that persisted throughout the game’s original release, with scores of unreleased content being found by players.
In a recent interview with VGC, we asked MultiVersus director Tony Huynh how he felt about datamining, and whether any measures had been put in place to avoid it happening this time around.
“A lot of things,” Huynh replied. “It is an arms race, so it’ll be constant protections against new and creative ways to datamine. At the end of the day, we’ve done a lot, we’ve learned a lot, but again, it is an arms race.
“I can’t promise that there won’t ever be leaks or anything like that. But on our end, we’ve done, I think, above and beyond what industry standards and protections there are.”
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