{"id":125983,"date":"2022-08-02T10:25:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T08:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=125983"},"modified":"2022-08-02T10:25:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T08:25:38","slug":"multiversus-exceeds-player-count-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/125983-multiversus-exceeds-player-count-expectations","title":{"rendered":"MultiVersus exceeds player count expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may be a little surprising to some to learn that the free-to-play Smash-like game <em>MultiVersus<\/em> is soring since it entered open beta just a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>On <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/steamcharts.com\/app\/1818750\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steam<\/a><\/strong>, <em>MultiVersus<\/em> is currently among the top 10 most popular games at the moment, with an average player count of 70,358 and a peak count of just over 153,000 in just seven days.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, <em>MultiVersus<\/em> is available on PlayStation and Xbox, and according to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/multiversus-player-count\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PC Gamer\u2019s Morgan Park<\/a><\/strong>, after 29 matches the game\u2019s leaderboard showed a rank of 4,929,968 in the world.<\/p>\n<p>While Warner Bros hasn\u2019t released any official metrics on <em>MultiVersus<\/em>, this suggests that the game already has attracted at least 5 million total players.<\/p>\n<p>Although this is not an exact science, the leaderboards and player counts give us a good idea of how many people have tried the game out over the past week.<\/p>\n<p>These numbers are useful for gauging player interest, and <em>MutliVersus<\/em> seems to be satisfying the masses.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll know for sure if this is the case as soon as Player First Games gets around to officially celebrating the launch with a big number.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the <em>MultiVersus<\/em> gameplay trailer below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dAydKj4j0IA\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Read: <a title=\"Permalink to Players are speedrunning Stray in record time already\" href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/125981-players-are-speedrunning-stray-in-record-time-already\" rel=\"bookmark\">Players are speedrunning Stray in record time already<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MultiVersus already has hundreds of thousands of players on Steam, with potentially millions in total in its first week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"featured_media":125984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[26398,15397,1870,1157,243],"class_list":["post-125983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-multiversus","tag-pc","tag-playstation","tag-video-games","tag-xbox-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}