Today Atlas launches into early access on Steam. I love days like today. Reddit has so much hype for a game that no one really knows about, or has seen any real gameplay footage. All we know is that it is a Pirate themed MMO from the makers of Ark: Survival Evolved. There are talks of servers handling 40,000 players, as well as privately hosted servers. I never tried Ark primarily because it launched a DLC while still in early access. That just feels wrong. But Ark is still within the top 15 games played on Steam right now so they must be doing something right. I may give it a try if it has favorable initial reviews, but my mouse will be hovering over the refund button the entire time.
Here is the countdown timer in case you are interested: https://www.playatlas.com/
Edit: Delayed until December 21st 😦
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