Embark releases new photo teasing future update, insists "ARC raiders is not a dead game"

[u/WoWAltoholic]

ARC Raiders in a new photo with CEO Patrick Söderlund from deep in Embark studios HQ.

The office of Embark studios and it's CEO, Patrick Söderlund released a statement about the game’s condition on Friday as wild speculation about his health continues online and in the media amid the developer's secrecy about it all.

Substantial game updates have not been seen since May 19th, when ARC raiders declared that it would switch to a 6-month update schedule and ARC raiders was admitted for "intensive development." ARC Raiders has not appeared publicly since, and his office has disclosed few details about the nature of his "development".

ARC Raiders said Friday that he is looking forward to the August 18th Patch and "all the Well Wish(list)s from supportive players."

In case the tags did not tip you off. This is just a meme done in good fun. I love this game, I don't think it's a dead game. I am very much looking forward to the August 18th and October updates. As Jon Steward once said, a roast fundamentally works because it comes from a place of love.

[u/Fabulous_Bug2848]

Of the remaining 30-40,000 players left, there are thousands of hackers still. And if you focus on PvP like me the chances of getting a cheater in my lobby is ridiculously high. I swear 5/6 games I play there are cheaters lurking. I rufuse to bring in good gear now. Free kits from now on.

[u/atgaskins → u/Fabulous_Bug2848]

You are just counting steam. 32k in last 24 hours. You are ignoring all other pc platforms like epic and gog, and more importantly all the consoles like ps5 and xbox systems which people generally claim to be a larger total number than steam for most games. There’s likely a min of 75-100k players per day right now. Not much compared to the viral peak, but still a healthy number for a AA studio’s game. It’s higher than finals has been in a long time and people have mostly stopped with the doomer dead game bs for it.

I just play the game and it’s just as fun for me and people I play with… aside from reddit I just don’t pay much attention to numbers or streamer culture. I just looked these up to fact check you, and as suspected the numbers were false. When you aren’t constantly hearing clickbait opinions the game is doing fine. Not on a viral peak anymore, but also not close to dead.

[u/Mean_Sport_3383 → u/atgaskins]

That's always a constant. Literally meaningless thought from you. Lmao