ARC Raiders, an extraction journey sport developed by Nexon unit Embark Studios, is capturing world consideration with its early success.
After its launch on Oct. 30, the title reached its peak concurrent customers of 700,000 amongst PC and console customers. As of Nov. 11, it bought 4 million copies worldwide, signaling stronger gross sales momentum forward with the feat achieved simply two weeks after its launch.
ARC Raiders’ early world success is pushed by accessible gameplay and player-friendly design that lowers style boundaries, making it simpler for newcomers to leap into fight, exploration and extraction.
By providing free beginning loadouts and adopting an auto looting system, the sport lowered the entry barrier for brand spanking new customers. Its distinctive postapocalyptic setting and aesthetic that visualizes the long run envisioned from the Nineteen Seventies and Nineteen Eighties additionally attracted customers, with high-resolution graphics powered by Unreal Engine 5 and complicated sound offering extra immersive experiences.
The title’s success serves as a promising indicator that Nexon’s long-term world funding and growth technique is paying off.
Nexon acquired Swedish developer Embark Studios as its subsidiary in 2021 in a strategic transfer to safe its expertise in growing high-budget video games and its experience in utilizing cloud-based growth instruments.
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Since then, the corporate has maintained the studio’s independence whereas offering ongoing long-term monetary and personnel assist to make sure high quality. Whereas doing so, the 2 sides recurrently collaborate on growth, infrastructure and reside operations with group exchanges.
Nexon attributed ARC Raiders’ explosive success to this method, which introduced collectively Nexon’s publishing experience and Embark’s growth expertise.
Together with ARC Raiders, Nexon’s dedication to supporting growth groups has additionally helped gasoline Mabinogi Cell’s success. The corporate spun off its core growth studio, devCAT, right into a separate entity in 2020 to make sure autonomy, whereas frequently offering very important assets.
This laid the groundwork for Mabinogi Cell’s lengthy growth, ensuing within the sport profitable the highest prize on the 2025 Korea Recreation Awards.
With the gross sales of ARC Raiders and Mabinogi Cell on observe, Nexon is looking for to increase its momentum with MapleStory: Idle RPG.
The latest launch from its flagship MapleStory franchise, MapleStory: Idle RPG claimed the highest spot in each main cellular app shops since its world launch earlier this month.
