Unless you\u2019re Nintendo releasing a game called Super Smash Bros, fighting games don\u2019t usually set the world on fire. That\u2019s why I was a little surprised to learn that MultiVersus, the free-to-play Smash-like that joins forces with Warner Bros\u2019 many intellectual properties, is really taking off.<\/p>\n
MultiVersus has been popping off since it entered open beta a week ago. It has sat near the top of Steam\u2019s concurrent players list (among juggernauts like CS:GO and Apex Legends) every day, most recently peaking at over 150,000 concurrents. MultiVersus is also available on PlayStation and Xbox, and according to what I\u2019ve seen of its leaderboards, the game has already garnered at least 5 million total players.<\/p>\n
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It’s not an exact science, but it looks like MultiVersus already has millions of players. <\/span>(Image credit: Warner Bros)<\/span><\/p>\n Warner Bros hasn\u2019t released any official metrics on MultiVersus, but its leaderboards give us a good idea of how many people have tried the game out over the past week. My friend, who has only played 29 matches, is ranked 4,929,968th best player in the world. I\u2019m starting to see how the MultiVersus community managed to shatter the 3 million ringout community challenge<\/a> to unlock the Rick and Morty stage in just a few hours.<\/p>\n I\u2019m assuming that\u2019s near the bottom of the totem pole, but it\u2019s possible the floor goes even lower. We\u2019ll know for sure whenever Player First Games gets around to officially celebrating the launch with a big number. As I mentioned recently, fixating on player counts<\/a> isn’t a good idea, but they can be useful for gauging interest, and there does seem to be a hunger for free fighting games on PC. Good news for Riot, which announced today that its League of Legends fighting game<\/a> will be free-to-play.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [#item_image]MultiVersus already has millions of players<\/p>\n Unless you\u2019re Nintendo releasing a game called Super Smash Bros, fighting games don\u2019t usually set the world on fire. That\u2019s why I was a little surprised to learn that MultiVersus, the free-to-play Smash-like that joins forces with Warner Bros\u2019 many intellectual properties, is really taking off.<\/p>\n MultiVersus has been popping off since it entered open beta a week ago. It has sat near the top of Steam\u2019s concurrent players list (among juggernauts like CS:GO and Apex Legends) every day, most recently peaking at over 150,000 concurrents. MultiVersus is also available on PlayStation and Xbox, and according to what I\u2019ve seen of its leaderboards, the game has already garnered at least 5 million total players.<\/p>\n \n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n It’s not an exact science, but it looks like MultiVersus already has millions of players. <\/span>(Image credit: Warner Bros)<\/span><\/p>\n Warner Bros hasn\u2019t released any official metrics on MultiVersus, but its leaderboards give us a good idea of how many people have tried the game out over the past week. My friend, who has only played 29 matches, is ranked 4,929,968th best player in the world. I\u2019m starting to see how the MultiVersus community managed to shatter the 3 million ringout community challenge<\/a> to unlock the Rick and Morty stage in just a few hours.<\/p>\n I\u2019m assuming that\u2019s near the bottom of the totem pole, but it\u2019s possible the floor goes even lower. We\u2019ll know for sure whenever Player First Games gets around to officially celebrating the launch with a big number. As I mentioned recently, fixating on player counts<\/a> isn’t a good idea, but they can be useful for gauging interest, and there does seem to be a hunger for free fighting games on PC. Good news for Riot, which announced today that its League of Legends fighting game<\/a> will be free-to-play.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}