The Finals certainly made a splash when it launched, hitting Steam after a successful beta. But now, just a month and a half-later, it's seen a serious drop in interest. The game's Steam player base has gone from hundreds of thousands to tens-of-thousands, a drop of 83%.
Could multiplayer game has lost a huge chunk of its audience.
The Finals launched with over 200,000 Steam active players and peaked shortly after with 242,619. Its servers were even straining to handle the load. But, over the course of two months, it's steadily dropped to a player base of around 50,000.
The game is also on console, so the Steam figures (via ten million players have tried the game.
So what's happening? The Steam reviews, past and present are 'mostly positive', so it's not as if Embark has thrown in some ill-advised, player-offending change.
Poring over a new mode added.
It may be that, with its newness wearing off, The Finals will end up with a stable player base. Whether that player base is enough to make the game commercially viable, is another question, and if that figure keeps dropping, The Finals could be in trouble.
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