Players in the West have been talking about the new MMORPG New World and its success on Steam for a month now. Meanwhile, a company in Asia is celebrating that its new MMORPG MIR4 has reached a million simultaneous players.
How many players did New World have at its peak simultaneously? New World narrowly missed the prestigious peak value of 1 million players.
On its launch weekend, New World reached a peak concurrent player count of 913,027. The remarkable thing is that New World achieved this exclusively on Steam: New World is only available on PC and only on Steam. It does not have its own launcher.
Since the release weekend, player numbers have dropped.
MMORPG Mir4 continues to grow
Mir4 is now celebrating: The developers of Mir4, Wemade, announced that their MMORPG has managed to surpass the threshold of 1 million simultaneous users:
- On October 27, Mir4 had over 1 million simultaneous users.
WeMade states that the game is active in more than 170 countries and in 12 languages. It started with 11 servers but now has 169.
Mir4 is available on Steam, as well as on iOS and Android. In addition to our version for the West, there is also an Asian version.
The astonishing thing about the numbers is that Mir4 is growing further compared to New World. Two weeks ago, the peak value was still 800,000.
Botters and gold farmers apparently boost MMORPG growth
Why do so many people play Mir4? The success of Wemade comes with a catch. Because Mir4 has a controversial system: players can mine ore in the MMORPG and convert it into a cryptocurrency that they can then sell for real money.
This leads to some apparently not “playing” Mir4 but “working.” Because through crypto mining, they have a reason to play as much as possible and to be online.
However, the system also means that there are apparently tons of bots in Mir4 that are supposed to line the pockets of their operators. We have already reported on MeinMMO how MIR4 is struggling with bots:
The largest MMORPG on Steam has more bots there than other games have players at all
