{"id":94072,"date":"2019-05-24T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/343352"},"modified":"2019-05-24T16:05:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T16:05:00","slug":"dauntless-saw-500000-new-players-within-24-hours-of-its-cross-platform-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/24\/dauntless-saw-500000-new-players-within-24-hours-of-its-cross-platform-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Dauntless saw 500,000 new players within 24 hours of its cross-platform launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phoenix Labs\u2019 free-to-play, cross-platform RPG <em>Dauntless<\/em> has surpassed 4 million lifetime players, a milestone that comes just days after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/343114\/Dauntless_launches_on_consoles_with_full_dayone_crossplay.php\">the game\u2019s full launch<\/a> on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and the Epic Games Store.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dauntless<\/em> itself gathered over 3 million players while running in open beta for the last year or so, and a press release from the developer notes that it saw over 500,000 new players give the game a try within the first 24 hours of its&nbsp;full release.<\/p>\n<p>The game launched on May 21 and notably offered support for both cross-platform play and progression on three platforms right at launch, the first console game to do so. <em>Dauntless<\/em> is also due out for Switch, iOS, and Android in the future as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phoenix Labs\u2019 free-to-play, cross-platform RPG Dauntless has surpassed 4 million lifetime players, a milestone that comes just days after the game\u2019s full launch on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and the Epic Games Store. Dauntless itself gathered over 3 million players while running in open beta for the last year or so, and a press release [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94072","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\/94072","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=94072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}