ARC Raiders developer Embark Studios has just announced plans to issue a whopping 500 free Tokens to players affected by yesterday's server problems. The immensely popular extraction shooter has been riding high since its official launch last week, even suffering a bit from its success: players on both PC and console have experienced a number of matchmaking and other server problems in ARC Raiders in recent days.
This isn't entirely unexpected, and is, in some ways, par for the course when it comes to massively popular multiplayer games. Naturally, the trend can be particularly pronounced in viral games, or games that ostensibly offer something new—descriptions that many would agree apply to ARC Raiders, as well as titles like Helldivers 2, which experienced similar server issues at launch. With ARC Raiders' concurrent player count on Steam swelling to over 350,000 during its launch weekend, it's definitely in conversation with the likes of Helldivers, making its server issues somewhat expected.
To put things into perspective, ARC Raiders' massively successful Server Slam playtest peaked at just under 190,000 concurrent players on PC alone.
Expected or not, Embark Studios is attempting to offer consolation in the wake of ARC Raiders' server woes, announcing on...
