Final week I wrote concerning the upcoming live-service shooter Harmony, which is because of launch in just some brief weeks. A beta weekend was held for the sport however solely those that had pre-ordered the sport or had an energetic PSN membership may be part of up. Whereas we couldn’t see what the console numbers have been, the player count on PC was worryingly small.
This weekend, the beta has been opened as much as completely everybody which ought to imply, in idea, a lot larger participant numbers. That isn’t what we’re seeing although.
According to SteamDB, which tracks all kinds 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 truthful, 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 definitely a sign that folks aren’t very considering Harmony.
The participant numbers didn’t enhance with phrase of mouth, both. On July 19 Harmony solely achieved a peak participant rely of 1,666, indicating that many individuals didn’t trouble returning. Right this moment, July 20, the height rely was 1,447, so no less than the drop-off wasn’t as unhealthy because it was on day 1.
After all, we’ve 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 group, 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 properly for the way forward for Harmony. At this fee, the sport goes to want some unbelievable word-of-mouth when it launches, or else it’s going to find yourself as one more corpse within the live-service mass grave.
