Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is more popular with Steam than ever before

This week, more than four years after the game began, Postman 3: Wild Hunt has more simultaneous players on Steam than ever before. The news is coming from Marcin Momot, a leading global community of developers CD Projekt Red. Player details come courtesy of SteamCharts, which pulls information from the publicly available API for Valve.

Previously the number one time equal player was highest Author 3

it was launched, May 1, 2015. This is when SteamCharts says about 92,268 players have signed up. In print, the all-time highest total is 94,601, set in the last 24 hours. A role-playing game and broke the top 10 Steamers, who entered the eighth most played game at the time of publication.

Other articles in The Witcher series also see the explosion. Witcher: Advanced System, the 100th annual re-release of the first game in the series, also developed the top 100 most played games on Steam according to SteamCharts. And it's a full-time player rating all the time, by more than 12,000 players in the last 24 hours

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A spectacular success, no doubt fueled by Netflix's popularity Witch series, starring Henry Cavill (Man of Steel, Justice League). The spike in players also coincides with Steam's winter sales, which have Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Game of the Year Edition

marked down to $ 14.99. The full price is usually $ 49.99.

One person who is probably more excited than ever about the success of The Witcher video games is Andrzej Sapkowski, the author of the original novel. Last year he demanded more than $ 16 million in sales Author 3 alone. His efforts have led to the renewal of his license agreement with CD Projekt. While the terms have yet to be disclosed, you have to consider that they are far better than the previous agreement, which Sapkowski called "stupid" to sign.