[STEAM] Amazon Hails Success of MMO Throne and Liberty After 3 Million Players in a Week

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, the free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by NCSoft and published by

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Originally billed as a Lineage sequel, Throne and Liberty is an MMO with PvE and PvP set in a dynamic and seamless world. It suffered numerous delays over the course of a development cycle spanning several years.

Throne and Liberty finally launched on October 1 across PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S, and soon proved a hit on Steam with an impressive player concurrent peak of 336,300. That’s enough to make Throne and Liberty one of the most-played games on Valve’s platform right now. Neither Sony nor

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make player numbers public.

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added that Throne and Liberty players had amassed 24 million hours in the game, with more than 11 million hours watched on

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“Bringing Throne and Liberty to players around the world has been a huge shared undertaking by our team and our friends at NCSoft, and we’re so pleased to see the results as players join the game,” said Christoph Hartmann, VP,

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“We’re only getting started, and we have a series of updates planned including our first castle siege coming soon.”

Throne and Liberty’s early performance is all the more impressive in light of its ‘mixed’ user review rating on Steam, with most of the negative reviews about server issues and the typical monetization you get from these sorts of F2P MMOs. IGN’s impressions of

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said the game “is fun but doesn’t do enough to stand out.”

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Games, Throne and Liberty’s success comes as it continues to support its own developed MMO,

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, and Smilegate’s action role-playing game

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, which it published in 2022.

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is also publishing

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, and has a

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in the works, among other projects.

In August,

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the Lord of the rings MMO was "still early," and the next Tomb Raider a "huge, huge task."

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