Helldivers 2 lead thought it would bang, but not that hard: "We were prepared for having 150,000 players peak CCU"

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“Yes, yeah we did,” he told us.

Have you prepared for a major hit?'

And I thought ‘yes, we are prepared for having 150,000 players peak CCU.’

That’s way more than we thought."

After a week, the game had apparently attracted over 800,000 concurrent players, leading to days-long queues.

“We had not prepared for that,” Eriksson continued.

So we were believers, but we were surprised and shocked by the reception."

So, the peaks are probably far from over.

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