NCSoft’s MMORPG Throne and Liberty makes global debut

The online game records 326,000 simultaneous logins on the Steam platform

NCSoft’s MMORPG Throne and Liberty makes global debut
Ju-Hyun Lee 1
2024-10-02 17:28:22 2juhyun@hankyung.com
Korean games

NCSoft Corp., a South Korean gaming company, launched the global version of its new massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) 'Throne and Liberty' in the Americas, Europe, Oceania and Japan on Wednesday in collaboration with Amazon Games.

The game is available on the PC game platforms Steam, PlayStation5, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series Y in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese.

On the Steam platform, 'Throne and Liberty' recorded simultaneous logins of 326,000 players around midday Wednesday, according to data provider SteamDB.

It ranked sixth in terms of logins after Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, PUBG: Battlegrounds, Banana and Black Myth: Wukong.

Write to Ju-Hyun Lee at 2juhyun@hankyung.com
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