We're now over five weeks on from Crimson Desert's launch, but you might not think it looking at the concurrent player count for Pearl Abyss's open-world behemoth on Steam, which is still regularly hitting six-figure peaks.
It's just the way of life for most single-player games: inevitably, player counts dwindle significantly after launch. There's an incredibly simple reason for that – wait long enough, and that initial rush of people wanting to play the game have finished it. Sure, you'll have some folks who might go back in for a second run, or new players who didn't start it at launch, but generally speaking, you can expect a fairly significant drop-off.
