Rainbow Six Siege triples its playerbase

At its opening weekend, Rainbow Six Siege was peaking at 12ok concurrent gamers. The recreation noticed a 40% spike with the discharge of the Skull Rain DLC that launched final August, however the recreation nonetheless could not break the report of that opening weekend.

GitHyp notes that Ubisoft’s help of the sport all through its tenure on retailer cabinets is a vital a part of the sport’s upward development, together with reductions in worth, further content material, and different promotional campaigns which have made it simpler for gamers to get in on the motion with out spending an excessive amount of cash – particularly free weekends. These efforts have resulted in a brand new report of concurrent gamers: 65ok, to be precise, which has lastly allowed the sport a spot in Steam’s listing of prime 5 most performed video games. 

With further deliberate content material coming down the pipeline, it would not be out of the realm of risk for Rainbow Six Siege’s participant numbers to develop once more someday sooner or later.