{"id":1683683,"date":"2026-09-04T23:22:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T23:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9TZS3mnmMfTmKKZTBUMMAE"},"modified":"2026-09-04T23:22:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T23:22:45","slug":"as-wardogs-blows-past-200k-steam-concurrents-its-developers-are-prepared-for-the-day-hype-dies-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/as-wardogs-blows-past-200k-steam-concurrents-its-developers-are-prepared-for-the-day-hype-dies-down\/","title":{"rendered":"As Wardogs blows past 200k Steam concurrents, its developers are prepared for the day &#8216;hype dies down&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>The way our hobby talks about player counts is all sorts of messed up. Steam concurrents are a useful metric for gauging a game&#8217;s general popularity, but they paint an incomplete picture. They&#8217;re a single data point, yet have become the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/fixating-on-player-counts-and-dead-games-is-making-gaming-worse\/\">flimsy scaffolding<\/a> on which the internet builds elaborate headcanon about a game&#8217;s quality, viability, or deadness. Sometimes dogpiling is so successful, and the resulting perception so difficult to fight, that simply saying a game is dead is enough to help kill it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a trend that annoys me to no end, so it&#8217;s refreshing to see a developer speaking openly about concurrents\u2014both about how many it considers &#8220;healthy,&#8221; and why it&#8217;s normal for the number to rise and fall. It&#8217;s been a recurring topic for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/believe-the-hype-for-wardogs-possibly-the-next-great-multiplayer-fps\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wardogs<\/a> developer Bulkhead, whose closed beta surpassed 200,000 concurrents today on Steam. Responding to a TimTheTatman clip on X, CEO Joe Brammer spoke on the milsim&#8217;s unexpected popularity, and its inevitable (but healthy) decline.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wardogs will continue to lose players for months as the hype dies down,&#8221; Brammer <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Brammflakes\/status\/2095964566370824372?s=20\">wrote<\/a>. &#8220;Doesn&#8217;t make it a bad game or even a problem, we planned for 5k players concurrent! It&#8217;ll maintain a healthy playerbase and we&#8217;ll continue to build the 1.0 version of the game then&#8230; it&#8217;ll boom again \ud83d\ude42 And so the cycle continues :)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a cycle many of us are familiar with, but rarely acknowledge. I tend to build a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/whats-in-your-fps-rotation\/\">rotation of multiplayer favorites<\/a> that I regularly return to, either to check out an update or scratch an itch. It is, I think, a pretty healthy way to enjoy videogames, but the rise of live service &#8220;forever&#8221; games, as well as high-profile failures, have proliferated the idea that videogames are those species of shark that will die if they ever stop swimming.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1160px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:53.71%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"GKVJqE5Xgv69GJmKYusSTc\" name=\"brammer\" alt=\"wardogs\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/as-wardogs-blows-past-200k-steam-concurrents-its-developers-are-prepared-for-the-day-hype-dies-down.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1160\" height=\"623\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Joe Brammer on X)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Much like the majority of videogames before 2016, Bulkhead does not need Wardogs to be a consistent, top-charting megahit to continue making it. In a video published last month outlining &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/hardcore-fps-immediately-becomes-steam-top-seller-as-devs-list-10-reasons-not-to-buy-it\/\">10 reasons not to buy Wardogs<\/a>,&#8221; game director Howard Philpott expanded on Bulkhead&#8217;s expectations:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We expect our initial days after launch to have a lot more players than expected, but we can tell you for a fact that this is completely normal. Those players will fall away over the next coming months. Player numbers will drop off, and journalists and influencers on the fringe of the community will try to ragebait your enjoyment out of the game for social media clicks. This doesn&#8217;t mean the game is dying. We&#8217;re thinking longer term than a flash in the plan. Our goal is to settle into a sustainable, close-knit community. If we&#8217;re pulling in 3,000 to 5,000 daily concurrent players who genuinely love the game, it&#8217;ll allow new players to buy in anytime and join an active community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If we put our hands together on this one, we can all be normal about a multiplayer shooter. Wardogs is out September 10, but pre-ordering grants access to the closed beta ending Sunday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"18df11f8-a8b7-11f1-85cf-b18c1d73b5d3\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:661px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:98.94%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"6offQUY4CXebir2TC27dMd\" name=\"kingdom come 2 square\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/as-wardogs-blows-past-200k-steam-concurrents-its-developers-are-prepared-for-the-day-hype-dies-down-1.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"654\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-pc-games-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"18df11f8-a8b7-11f1-85cf-b18c1d73b5d3\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2026 games<\/strong><\/a>: All the upcoming games<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/as-wardogs-blows-past-200k-steam-concurrents-its-developers-are-prepared-for-the-day-hype-dies-down\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The way our hobby talks about player counts is all sorts of messed up. Steam concurrents are a useful metric for gauging a game&#8217;s general popularity, but they paint an incomplete picture. They&#8217;re a single data point, yet have become the flimsy scaffolding on which the internet builds elaborate headcanon about a game&#8217;s quality, viability, or deadness. Sometimes dogpiling is so successful, and the resulting perception so difficult to fight, that simply saying a game is dead is enough to help kill it. It&#8217;s a trend that annoys me to no end, so it&#8217;s refreshing to see a developer speaking openly about concurrents\u2014both about how many it considers &#8220;healthy,&#8221; and why it&#8217;s normal for the number to rise and fall. It&#8217;s been a recurring topic&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/as-wardogs-blows-past-200k-steam-concurrents-its-developers-are-prepared-for-the-day-hype-dies-down\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1683685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[91,748],"class_list":["post-1683683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-fps","tag-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>As Wardogs blows past 200k Steam concurrents, its developers are prepared for the day &#039;hype dies down&#039; | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The way our hobby talks about player counts is all sorts of messed up. 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