Dune Awakening is on the transfer, fam, and Funcom doesn’t imply to let anybody overlook it. This morning, the studio launched a launch infographic calling the sport Funcom’s fastest-selling so far, with 189K peak concurrency and 1M copies offered.
“To place it into perspective, it took Conan Exiles one yr to succeed in this quantity,” Funcom says. “The sport has up to now reached a peak concurrency of over 189,000 gamers, one other metric that has far surpassed Conan Exiles’ 54,403 peak.”
Funcom inventive director Joel Bylos additionally penned a letter to gamers this morning, emphasizing that the studio needs PvE gamers in endgame and that its “aim is to not power PvE gamers to work together with a PvP system that they could have little interest in.” The studio says it wished gamers to “embrace” the endgame PvP loop, however the gamers will not be cooperating. Funcom goes to accommodate them.
“The truth is that gamers are reporting being lower out of the endgame because of the extraordinarily aggressive nature of the Deep Desert. Beginning quickly, some areas of the Deep Desert will now be flagged as ‘Partial Warfare (PvE)’ areas the place gamers will be capable of discover testing stations and harvest T6 assets with out the specter of battle they could not need. It’s vital to notice that the highest tier of the sport is balanced round guilds and teams, so individuals will nonetheless discover it grindy in the event that they play solo. Landsraad management factors, shipwrecks and the most important spice fields inside this area of the Deep Desert will stay ‘Battle of Assassins (PvP)’ flagged. The deepest components of the Deep Desert will stay as they presently are – excessive reward, excessive danger areas.”
It’s possible you’ll electronic mail your I-told-you-sos on to Funcom, but it surely seems the studio already is aware of. Ah, MMORPGs.
Bylos additionally addresses deliberate modifications to ornithopters, respawn timers, and different mechanics “being abused within the Deep Desert,” in addition to efforts towards bettering the Landsraad system and buffing out the endgame – together with the PvE endgame.
