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New World from Amazon Game Studios has now lost almost 90% of its daily peak players since launch, which dipped below 100k for the first time ever

When New World first launched, it peaked at 913k players. However, the daily peak players has almost dropped almost every single week since the game launched and content updates have done little to prevent the bleed out of players. Yesterday, the daily peak players was just 98k, representing a drop from its peak player count that is slightly 89%. (Source: https://steamdb.info/app/1063730/graphs/)

Now, if these 98k peak payers (or even 48k during off peak hours) were all concentrated in a few servers, this would not be an issue, you would still find people to play with. Except, new world had hundreds of servers at launch with 2k concurrent player caps, with AGS telling players to pick medium/low pop servers to avoid queues. Well, here is an example of a server that was previously "medium" pop: https://newworldstatus.com/worlds/lintukoto. As you can see, during off peak hours you frequently see <100 players (meanly you will barely find anyone in this MMO) and even during peak hours there are barely more than 300 players max.