Thanks to this past week’s introduction of a free-to-play model, Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade saw a massive jump in its player population. The team reports that concurrency doubled practically overnight while daily active users tripled to 44,619.
While this is certainly a cause for celebration among the team, the huge influx of players caused some technical issues that required a weekend of hard work to sort out. There’s still more to be done, as some guild services and the world map are being reworked to accommodate the larger crowd.
The team also said that it’s making a few adjustments to its Steam offerings, such as bundling together the four DLCs into a single purchasable package. Also: “Steam is working on the giftable version of the game for all players that bought the game before we launched the free version. Apparently, this is not straightforward but we’ll figure out something, or an equivalent.”
