Throne and Liberty relies on Unreal Engine 4 and wants to inherit the Lineage series.
The long-awaited successor to the MMO series Lineage is called Throne and Liberty. And the game is making quite a splash on Steam, at least in terms of initial sales. We’ll tell you how a Free2Play game can leave big full-price fish like Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 and Black Myth: Wukong behind.
Disclaimer: We list the following below ten top-grossing games on Steam last week and address relevant developments. The basic information is based on data from SteamDB
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The fights in Amazon’s MMO Throne and Liberty: Beautiful, but stupid?
Throne and Liberty doesn’t really go down well on release day, but that’s nothing particularly unusual for MMOs with experienced and demanding fans. The fact that a Free2Play game that only appears on October 1st takes third place in the previous week’s bestsellers raises questions.
The answer is pretty simple: By purchasing a priced edition, those who are impatient get access to the game five days in advance. Not everyone seems happy with the purchase; at the time this article was published, the Steam ratings were only 67 percent approved from over 5,500 fan reviews.
That’s not a terribly bad value, the clear majority are supporting Throne of Liberty and are obviously having a lot of fun in the land of Solisium. Nevertheless, a few points of criticism can be read again and again.
An excerpt of the reviews: Among other things, players criticize the game balance, due to the mass formation (Zergs
) is favored. There are also allegations that Throne and Liberty relies on Pay2Win or Pay2Progress. Is that correct? The answer is long and complicated, the colleagues from MeinMMO have analyzed for you.
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The complete top 10 on Steam
- EA Sports FC 25
- Counter-Strike 2
- Throne and Liberty
- Steam Deck
- Monster Hunter Wilds
- Warhammer 40.000: Space Marine 2
- Once Human
- Crusader Kings 3
- Black Myth: Wukong
- Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero
Also worth mentioning: The new Dragon Ball game is climbing into the Steam Top 10 via pre-sales before its release on October 11th. It’s the same with Monster Hunter Wilds, but the advance praise here continues to grow into the future: release February 28, 2025. And currently no one is running the ball away from the new EA Sports FC 25, which has already taken first place for the second week in a row top-selling products on Steam.
