Season 2 a huge success (or not) compared to S1
I am surprised this is not getting much attention, but Season 2 beat Season 1's launch!
Now that we are through the first week of Season 2, we can use Steam Charts to get an idea of how many additional players are now playing the game compared to the first week of Season 1's launch.
Using the peak active players for every day of the week for 7 days, Season 1 had 98,688 total peak players cumulatively over the course of a week. The best day was a peak of 14,989 on Day 3.
For Season 2, the total was 99,277, an increase of 589 players over a course of a week (0.6%!). So a daily increase of 84 players! Season 2 had a peak of 16,856 players on launch day (Day 1).
Remember that Steam is only roughly 10% of the game's population, so take any of these numbers and multiply by 10 to get the total game's player count. Using that complex equation, we can estimate that the game had roughly 840 more players active, at peak, per day for the first week (+/- 50). That is 13 more 64-player servers live at peak concurrently.
Gaming sites and magazines need to pick up on this and extend the hype.
The player count is increasing!
American Truck Simulator, here we come!
- @CyberDyme if they got rid of specialists (i know they wont) and brought back classes with restricted weapons and gadgets, hurried and released the rest of the renewed launch maps sooner rather than later, and added more destruction across all launch and new maps, it could be so much more (but obvs still not on par with say BF 4).
But alas, for some crazy reason the above won't happen. Which is a shame. With the above mentioned, this alone would make 2042 sooo much better and most likely bring back more players.
