New World has entered closed beta, and is already generating a lot of interest from players.According to SteamDB, the MMORPG from Amazon Games peaked at 190,811 concurrent players on Steam within 24 hours of launching its closed beta on July 20.It’s proven just as popular on Twitch.
According to Dexerto, New World racked up over 600,000 viewers, beating out other popular games like Grand Theft Auto V and Call Of Duty: Warzone.
It was even more popular than the platform’s ‘Just Chatting’ category.Naturally, the huge demand also saw the game’s servers overwhelmed with long queues.
Amazon responded via the official New World Twitter account to assure players that issues were being addressed.The tweets also highlight some issues already.
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