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Free-to-Play Game Robocraft Flies Past 1 Million Registered players - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 29 July 2014 / 5,485 Views

Robocraft, the free-to-play multiplayer shooter has found success since the alpha was released on Steam Early Access. The game has surpassed one million registered players, as the number of players has shot up.

"We jumped from 20,000 users per day, to 100,000 users per day, pretty much overnight," Freejam game director Mark Simmons told Develop. "From 2,500 online fighting at the same time dropping lower in early morning to 12,000 users online fighting 24/7. Lets just say we've been doing a lot of fire-fighting over the last few weeks to keep the servers coping, but we're on top of it now."

"We felt by going on Early Access the Steam community would be more comfortable with the changes to the game mechanics as we try things out," he said. "We are still adding some missing features we regard as the 'core', and when those are complete we'll call it 'beta.'"

"Then we'll polish and gun for a full release on Steam," he added. "That's all at least six months, but we don't plan much at Freejam, we iterate as fast as we can and build with the community and we see where that takes us."

The game in April hit 300,000 players, and has more than tripled in just four months. The game amasses 175,000 monthly active users.

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A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. Outside, in the real world, he has a passion for the outdoors which includes everything from hiking to having received his B.A. in Environmental Studies. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com.


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Ganoncrotch (on 29 July 2014)

Million people registered for a free game! They must be loaded.

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