New World: Falling number of players on Steam will stabilize at a high level before 2022

On By Garmin Philip

The MMORPG New World was after a short flight of highs for the release in October 2021 in constant descent for weeks and lost about 80% of its players on Steam within two months. This decline in the number of players was stopped in December 2021. The MMORPG has stabilized since December 6th – and at a high level.

How was the New World player count?

  • New World got off to an extremely strong start, with 913,000 peak players in October and an average of 410,000 players. An absolutely bombastic value for a new MMO on Steam.
  • But already in November the numbers went down by 62% – instead of 410,000 players, there were only 155,000 there.
  • In December, the number now seems to be somewhere between 98,000 and 127,000 average active players.

This is what the boss of New World says about the rapidly falling number of players on Steam – 83% less

Nicholas brought stability to New World in terms of player count on Steam

That stands out: If you look at the number of players at New World, a plateau has apparently been reached for a few weeks. There is no longer any great drops or increases: the curve is relatively flat.

Since around St. Nicholas’ Day, December 6, 2021, the number of players has been moving in a relatively narrow corridor:

  • New World had the fewest players on December 15th. with around 98,000 players on average.
  • New World had the most players on December 6th. with 127,000 players on average.
  • Every day from December 6th until December 29th lie in this relatively narrow field – on many days around 110,000 players on average are active in New World at the same time.
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A lot of red is never a good sign, but on closer inspection you can see: From December 6th. the curve is pretty stable.

Why has the game caught up now? One can assume that the people who are still playing New World now either really like the game or are only progressing very slowly and have not yet reached the maximum level.

It’s relatively normal for a game like this to have only one core community. Many stop at the maximum level and wait until “something new” comes up.

Server merges (from 485 to 135 servers) and improvements in gaming should also have helped New World catch up in December.

Are the player numbers good? It is at least enough for first place on Steam in the “Most Played MMOs” – but it is no longer an amazing number.

You have to consider that other MMOs besides Steam also have their own clients, run on consoles or mobile and the number of players is therefore distributed over several platforms, New World really only has Steam players. So it makes sense that New World ranks high in Steam player numbers.

110,000 are already very neat – but apparently no longer the “largest MMORPG in the world” potential. How this will continue will probably show in January 2022, when a big update should come, which many are looking forward to.

Twitch streamer explains why he still plays New World and believes in the MMORPG

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