{"id":36567,"date":"2018-07-30T21:11:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T21:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/323231"},"modified":"2018-07-30T21:11:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T21:11:00","slug":"no-mans-sky-hit-almost-100000-concurrent-players-on-steam-this-past-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/30\/no-mans-sky-hit-almost-100000-concurrent-players-on-steam-this-past-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"No Man&#8217;s Sky hit almost 100,000 concurrent players on Steam this past weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>No Man&#8217;s Sky<\/em> hit a peak concurrent playercount of around 97,000 users this past\u00a0weekend,\u00a0following the release of <em>Next<\/em>, an\u00a0update\u00a0which added online multiplayer\u00a0to the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hello Games\u2019 procedural space simulator\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/322915\/No_Mans_Sky_Next_update_attracts_over_40000_players_on_Steam.php\">showed over 40,000 concurrent players on Steam last week<\/a> following the release the\u00a0<em>Next<\/em>\u00a0update,\u00a0which also included features like expansive base building and overhauled graphics.<\/p>\n<p>According to numbers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/no-mans-sky-pulls-in-nearly-100000-concurrent-players-on-steam-over-the-weekend\/\">pulled by PC Gamer,<\/a>\u00a0<em>Next<\/em>\u00a0didn&#8217;t draw in as many\u00a0players\u00a0on Steam since\u00a0<em>No Man&#8217;s Sky&#8217;s\u00a0<\/em>launch, which was just over 212,000 concurrent users, but it&#8217;s not terrible for a game that&#8217;s seen significant changes since its original (and somewhat controversial) launch.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the co-op multiplayer and other new features of <em>Next,<\/em>\u00a0the 50 percent drop in price of <em>No Man&#8217;s Sky\u00a0<\/em>is probably contributing to the higher playercount as well, since the game has been sitting at Steam&#8217;s global top sellers list since the update launched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Man&#8217;s Sky hit a peak concurrent playercount of around 97,000 users this past\u00a0weekend,\u00a0following the release of Next, an\u00a0update\u00a0which added online multiplayer\u00a0to the game.\u00a0 Hello Games\u2019 procedural space simulator\u00a0showed over 40,000 concurrent players on Steam last week following the release the\u00a0Next\u00a0update,\u00a0which also included features like expansive base building and overhauled graphics. According to numbers\u00a0pulled by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}