February 5, 2019 Apex Legends is reaching even bigger player count heights.
Apex Legends reached one million players just eight hours after its initial surprise launch, and it seems there’s no slowing it down. Just a day after launch, there have been over 2.5 million unique players in-game, and concurrent player count reached a peak of 600,000 users. By all accounts, it’s been an astoundingly successful launch.
That news comes as part of a conference call covering EA’s latest financials, as reported by Dom on Twitter. (A full transcript of the call should soon follow.) EA further says that Apex Legends is trending toward three million users.
600,000 is comparable to the recent concurrent player counts for PUBG on Steam, though it’s worth noting the Apex Legends numbers almost certainly include the console releases in addition to Origin. Still, it’s a heck of a start for the game.
Yesterday, CEO of developer Respawn Entertainment Vince Zampella tweeted to say that “I’m so overwhelmed right now, [Apex Legends] broke a million unique players in under eight hours,” thanking the game’s newly-formed community. That’s a massively successful start, of course, but perhaps it’s not too surprising.