The MMORPG Albion Online is developed in Berlin and was released on PC in 2017. As the developers mention in a New Year’s post, they managed to double their average player count in 2021: After almost 10 years, they finally achieved one of the MMORPG’s goals and launched on a new platform – on Mobile (iOS, Android).
What is Albion Online as an MMORPG?
- Albion Online is a free-to-play fantasy MMORPG set in a medieval world based on the Arthurian legend.
- The MMORPG is played from an isometric perspective, similar to Ultima Online or Diablo III.
- The focus of Albion Online is clearly on PvP and offers players great freedom.
Mobile launch in June doubled player count for Albion Online
What caused the player boom? The developers state that they had already set new player count records in 2020 and reached about 135,000 daily active players in February 2021. With an event in March, they increased the number to 140,000.
The big breakthrough came in June 2021, when they finally launched the mobile version.
With the ability to play Albion Online on both desktop PC and mobile, players were given much more motivation to be active, and the player count doubled to about 271,000 active users.
Don’t you guys have phones?
Why was this so important for Albion Online? The developers say they had the idea for the past 10 years that Albion Online should be playable on desktop and mobile without any differences. The game was therefore developed from the start as a “crossplay title.”
But it wasn’t until June 9, 2021, that this really became a reality when Albion Online was launched on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
What’s behind this: Since people have been talking about Albion Online, one of the exciting topics has really been playing equally on PC and mobile. The interesting thing is that everything takes place in a shared game world – and there are no separate worlds, unlike what often happens in games for mobile and PC.
The mobile launch has actually been delayed for a long time.
Although it was possible to download mobile versions of Albion Online for a long time, the game was in beta there for many years.
Access to the big app stores has apparently given the game another huge player surge. As a PvP title from an isometric perspective, Albion Online might fly under the radar for many classic MMORPG players, but perhaps that will change in 2022.
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