Black Desert Online Player Count Resurges Up 335% Globally Following Recent Expansion Launch

Black Desert Online's player count saw a 335% increase in returning players following the MMO's recent "Land of the Morning Light" expansion.

[RpgSama]

33 thousand concurrent users seem healthy.

[Christopher]

That won't last. It's typical for player resurgence immediately after an expansion but it will fall off over time. Depending on the expansion content, they'll likely have about the same activity in two months that they had before the expansion. It would have to be an amazing expansion to change it much at all

[luckytrouble]

Indeed. I've watched a fair amount of a series called Death of a Game on YouTube, and it's exceedingly common for some kind of new content or update to cause a major resurgence in playerbase that only lasts as little as one month at times before numbers sink again.

It's exceedingly hard to pull a game out of decline in a long term fashion.

[LordoftheCritics]

Its the free dream horse.

Watch it plummet very very soon.

The fundamentals of this game is terrible.

[GameBoyColor]

afk bots getting spun up again lol. Just like lost ark all I saw was autopathing farmers last time I played.