10 Great Video Games Everybody Just Stopped Playing
1. The Finals
Free-to-play FPS The Finals launched this past December to solidly positive reviews from critics and general players alike, and peaked with an impressive 242,619 concurrent players on Steam within days of release.
This seemed to indicate the possibility of The Finals becoming the new viral, word-of-mouth hotness, and though the player count began to dwindle in the new year, it was still sitting at over 100,000 concurrents well into January.
But the player count took a noticeable dip in late January, falling below 50,000 for the first time, marking a more than 80% drop from launch.
Though some players have pointed to a lack of content and frustrating matchmaking as possible explanations, it's impossible to ignore the fact that the phenomenally popular monster-gaming game Palworld was released on January 19 - mere days before The Finals' numbers took a sharp dip.
With Palworld reaching an eye-watering peak of over 2.1 million players on January 27, it's reasonable to deduce that it took a sizable portion of The Finals' players with it.
As of early March, the game dipped below 10% of its peak player count for the first time, indicating that without some major changes, it's on a not-so-slow march to its demise.