Alongside being a colossal sales success for Saber Interactive, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 has demonstrated an impressive amount of sticking power as a multiplayer game. Its most recent daily peak concurrent was over 21,000 players, higher than numerous big-swing multiplayer games released in the last 12 months like Dune Awakening and Marathon.
Not a bad performance for a game that led as a traditional linear action experience, and a large amount of credit must be given to Saber's impressive update schedule. Since the game's launch it has added tons of new missions, monsters and classes and more to its Left 4 Dead-style cooperative mode. It's the kind of update cadence you'd expect from a live-service game. Maybe Space Marine 2 deserves to be considered one.
