Throne and Liberty, the free-to-play fantasy MMORPG from Korean developer NCSOFT and published by Amazon Games, is off to a big start on Steam–though not quite as big as Amazon’s two previous MMOs.
An early-access period in which players could pay to play five days early saw Throne and Liberty’s concurrent player counts peak at around 56,000. On October 1, when the game launched for free-to-play players, those numbers rapidly climbed. Throne of Liberty reached 326,377 concurrent players on launch day and for a time was the fourth most-played game on Steam.
As often seems to be the case with the launch of a new MMO, server woes and login queues plagued Throne and Liberty in its opening hours, with NCSOFT rapidly spinning up new servers to meet demand. There were also a handful of other issues shortly after launch that NCSOFT said it was working to resolve, including some players being unable to create new characters or missing characters for those who played during early access.
Throne and Liberty’s Steam launch numbers are nothing to sneeze at, but far behind the launch of Amazon’s previous two MMOs, New World and Lost A…