Free-to-play shooter The First Descendant has drawn massive crowds in its first week live, with publisher Nexon pronouncing that some 10 million players have already checked out the game.
Noted by Insider Gaming, with no upfront cost, it remains to be seen how many of those players will stick around, but it's still an impressive number from a new IP. On Steam alone, it peaked at 264,860 concurrents right after launch and still managed to crack 200,000 in the last 24 hours, so it seems there is still a sizable contingent of players glued to the game.
We called The First Descendant a "mindless and repetitive grind," giving it a 3/10 in our review. That's just one opinion, of course, which has been split amongst other pundits. Most cite the game's onerous free-to-play model as particularly aggravating, however.