Arc Raiders is the latest multiplayer game to do better at its launch than it’s done in any of its free beta tests.
Arc Raiders has seemingly done what it set out to do, becoming the biggest extraction shooter outside of Tarkov. The game officially arrived on PC and consoles on Thursday, and people clearly showed up for it everywhere.
Not only has this been a successful launch, the numbers are also bigger than the game’s own previous record.
Arc Raiders has been in various forms of closed tests for well over a year, but its first public – and freely available – beta was October’s server slam, which offered a tiny portion of the game’s content. The test attracted 189,668 concurrent players on Steam at its peak, which is respectable, but you could definitely see room for growth at launch.
