Taleworlds Entertainment has announced that Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is currently the biggest launch on Steam in 2020. The game has just hit Steam Early Access and according to the team, it had 145,000 concurrent players yesterday.
Moreover, it took 100 minutes to reach 100,000 concurrent players. Not only that, but the game has over 1250 reviews on Steam, with 88% of them being positive.
#Bannerlord has over 145,000 concurrent players right now. It took 100 minutes to reach 100,000. +1250 reviews on Steam, 88% of them positive, in just 3 hours.
All these numbers make already @Mount_and_Blade II: Bannerlord the biggest launch in Steam in 2020.
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— Mount & Blade (@Mount_and_Blade) March 30, 2020
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is the sequel to the acclaimed medieval combat simulator and role-playing game Mount & Blade: Warband. The game expands both the detailed fighting system and the world of Calradia.
Players are able to bombard mountain fastnesses with siege engines, establish secret criminal empires in the back alleys of cities, or charge into the thick of chaotic battles in your quest for power.
Players are also able to explore, raid and conquer their way across the vast continent of Calradia. Moreover, they can make friends and enemies along the way. Furthermore, they can raise their own army and lead it into battle, as well as command and fight alongside their troops.
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord will stay in Early Access for around a year.
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now its reached 201k
Im happy for the devs its just too bad it basically took them 10 years to port Warband to a new engine. Hopefully now they can focus on delivering the rest of the content that was ment to be the selling point for Bannerlord.
Care to elaborate what features are missing from E3 and Gamescom demos and blogs or it’s all implemented, just people pierced through the hype glass too harshly?
The ability to build your very own kingdom for example is absent. Those fancy quests they showed with voice acting, the different city states and unique quests tied to them is also absent.
To keep things short what you get right now is the equivalent of Warband running on a new engine with better visuals and larger sieges. So you get to run around a map, built a small force, trade basic supplies, wage war and do some shallow repeatable quests while youre at it. The core of what made Mount & Blade fun is certainly there, just everything that was ment to expand upon that is still missing.
Why are you treating it like an actual launch?
It’s Early Access.
Every single AAA release on steam this years will most likely be the biggest.
RE3 remake
huh??
you read some wrong reviews then
Lol.
5-6h game, half the RE3 content/mechanics are missing, has tacked on garbage multiplayer to attempt justifying 60$ pricetag.
But sure, just accuse him of wrongthink.
No way, all time peak for RE 2 Remake is less than 75k.
That is some impressive numbers!
but but….it is not exclusive epic store, lol accept it, epic is sh*t, players will always prefer steam
But all the journos were saying HL VR was the biggest thing ever and a simple game beat it?
Doom eternal sold 700k copies on steam in its first week
Except me and 2 other people I know can call it Doom Returnal because we weren’t feeling it.
The difference that this is a quite niche game unlike Doom Eternal which is sold for every normie.
Same audience, rly… plus, Bannerlord is not released on consoles for now.
Why compare 2 games that have nothing in common? xD
Impressive, even when it looks like a Warband reup so far + early access..so people are paying for a incomplete product that they wait for so long (probably having something after all this time is the cause, can’t blame them…but still, people never learn).
pretty trash game imo.
why did my earlier comment get removed?