Dune: Awakening Sells 1 Million Copies, Making It Funcom's Fastest-Selling Game Ever

Dune: Awakening has sold implicit 1 cardinal copies successful 2 weeks.

Developer Funcom announced the quality earlier today, confirming that to spell on with a superb motorboat with a "very positive" idiosyncratic reappraisal standing connected Steam, implicit 1 cardinal players "have awakened," making it Funcom's "fastest-selling crippled ever."

"Dune: Awakening launched June 10 and 1,000,000 players person awakened!" the workplace said. "It’s present Funcom’s fastest-selling crippled ever. To enactment it into perspective, it took Conan Exiles 1 twelvemonth to scope this number. We’re genuinely humbled and thankful for this reception. It indispensable besides beryllium noted that you surely don’t unrecorded up to your title, due to the fact that you person been engaged since launch.

"Launch has been a Coriolis storm, and we’re inactive riding that mighty gale. We person seen truthful galore astonishing things from each of you — the bases, the adjacent calls with Shai-Hulud, the epic conveyance jumps, the struggles, discoveries, victories, heroic deaths, and truthful overmuch more... We salute you, Sleepers."

Within hours of going live, Funcom's endurance RPG had clocked up implicit 142,000 concurrent players connected Valve's platform, and deed a caller precocious past play of 189,333 players. We gave Dune: Awakening 8/10 successful our review, writing: "Dune: Awakening is an fantabulous endurance MMO that captures Frank Herbet’s sci-fi satellite incredibly well, mostly to its vantage and occasionally to its detriment. The endurance ascent from dehydrated peasant to almighty warlord of Arrakis is simply a joyousness astir each measurement of the way, and the communicative and worldbuilding filled this nerd with implicit joy.

"There’s inactive plentifulness for Awakening to enactment connected though, arsenic its combat ne'er truly hits its stride, the endgame is simply a spot of a chaotic messiness not worthy the effort, and there’s rather a fewer method bugs yet to beryllium squashed, but adjacent these unsmooth patches felt similar tiny godforsaken mice adjacent to the leviathan shai-huluds that are this endurance game’s fantastic successes."

Funcom is already "currently formulating a plan" to amended PvP successful the Deep Desert, which players person antecedently branded arsenic "toxic" owed to griefing. Funcom has already patched retired the quality for players to squish different radical with their Ornithopter, but elder crippled manager Viljar Sommerbakk besides revealed the squad was considering tweaking Ornis further, specified arsenic equipping them with rockets that "reduces wide maneuverability and max speed."

If each that's got you interested, marque definite to cheque retired each the Dune: Awakening classes you tin take from, and support an oculus connected our in-progress Dune: Awakening walkthrough for a step-by-step usher to the story. To assistance you past connected Arrakis, we've got Dune: Awakening assets guides that'll assistance you find iron, steel, aluminium, and a Dune: Awakening Trainers locations guide.

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