Final week I wrote in regards to the upcoming live-service shooter Harmony, which is because of launch in just some quick weeks. A beta weekend was held for the sport however solely those that had pre-ordered the sport or had an lively PSN membership may be part of up. Whereas we couldn’t see what the console numbers had been, the participant depend on PC was worryingly small.
This weekend, the beta has been opened as much as completely everybody which ought to imply, in principle, a lot greater participant numbers. That isn’t what we’re seeing although.
In line with SteamDB, which tracks all types of helpful Steam info, the sport nonetheless isn’t drawing in lots of gamers. On the beta’s launch day, July 18, it peaked at simply 2,388 concurrent gamers. To be honest, that’s nonetheless over twice what the closed beta managed the week prior. However 2,388 nonetheless appears alarmingly low for a first-party live-service shooter, and is unquestionably a sign that folks aren’t very keen on Harmony.
The participant numbers didn’t enhance with phrase of mouth, both. On July 19 Harmony solely achieved a peak participant depend of 1,666, indicating that many individuals didn’t hassle returning. As we speak, July 20, the height depend was 1,447, so not less than the drop-off wasn’t as unhealthy because it was on day 1.
After all, we now have no manner of figuring out what kind of participant counts Harmony is getting on PlayStation. It could possibly be far, much better. However Sony is pushing simultaneous PC and console launches for its dwell service titles to make sure a powerful neighborhood, so to see such low participant counts for an open beta the place the one barrier to entry is a few obtain time doesn’t bode nicely for the way forward for Harmony. At this price, the sport goes to wish some unbelievable word-of-mouth when it launches, or else it’s going to find yourself as yet one more corpse within the live-service mass grave.
