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Arc Raiders' Big Update Has It Surging to Numbers It Hasn't Seen in Months
Summary
Embark Studios said it would take several months to deliver the major Arc Raiders update it envisioned, and today's Frozen Trail update appears to be hitting that mark. The extraction shooter is once again climbing Steam's charts for both best-selling and most-played games. Among best sellers, Arc Raiders currently ranks fifth, behind this week's other big releases, Star Wars: Galactic Racer and Gears of War: E-Day, but those launched earlier this week and it's still early, so it may leap over them before the week is through. Its new cosmetic DLC, the Frozen Trail Collector's Set, is also selling very well, sitting at #8 on the best-sellers list. As for concurrent players, Arc Raiders has eclipsed 106,000 on Steam—good for 12th on the list—and has actually gained 5,000 more players since writing began. This is the highest it's been since May, when Embark announced it would move to a semi-annual cadence for major updates, with today's Frozen Trail being the first such update since that change. Embark felt it needed more time to deliver bigger updates for players while giving developers breathing room for a healthier work environment. That bold move is rarely seen in the world of extremely popular live-service games. Arc Raiders never really dropped off completely; it still averaged 40,000 concurrent Steam players in September, but it was close to averaging half a million last…
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