The First Descendant Is a Massive Hit Despite Its Various Controversies

The First Descendant has seen 10 million gamers in its first week of availability.

Nexon’s free-to-play looter shooter launched on the finish of June and noticed instant reputation, with a formidable 264,860 peak concurrent gamers on Steam alone. (Microsoft and Sony don’t make participant numbers publicly accessible.)

Nexon has now confirmed the spectacular complete participant rely of 10 million in seven days. It stated “we’ve reached” 10 million gamers, which suggests this determine pertains to participant accounts, reasonably than dormant downloads.

“Thank you all to your super assist and love,” Nexon continued. “It means every thing to us. We will do our greatest to carry you nice experiences. Can’t wait to proceed this journey collectively!”

The First Descendant is an enormous hit already, however Nexon might be aware of rising its participant rely as the sport evolves, and we have seen how tough this has develop into for therefore many publishers and builders who’ve entered the extremely aggressive dwell service market in recent times.

While The First Descendant is clearly a success it’s not with out controversy, and sits on a ‘blended’ person overview ranking on Steam. Players have closely criticized The First Descendant’s extremely aggressive monetization, which incorporates $100 character bundles and premium customization gadgets that expire after use. Nexon was additionally accused of copying Destiny 2 icons for the icons utilized in The First Descendant, one thing the corporate has now stated it’ll handle in-game.

Generally talking, The First Descendant is a mash-up of mechanics from varied looter shooters already out there. There’s greater than a whiff of Destiny about The First Descendant’s design, methods, and mechanics, however then there’s additionally a whole lot of Warframe about it, too.

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This week, Nexon launched a major replace for The First Descendant that makes some massive modifications to the sport, however leaves some features that had develop into a subject of dialogue inside the group properly alone.

IGN’s The First Descendant overview returned a 5/10. We stated: “The First Descendant has all of the constructing blocks of a unbelievable looter shooter, however they’re buried underneath a pile of monotonous quests, a horrible story, and an infuriating free-to-play mannequin that has influenced its sport design within the worst potential manner.”

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