Pragmata was meant to own this week. It was the highest profile new release by far and, from the vantage point of a couple of weeks ago, it looked like Capcom's seventh-gen-evoking sci-fi shooter would have the week to itself.
But it was not to be: pirate-survival timesink Windrose released into early access on April 14 after its release date was surprise-announced the previous week.
Windrose ended up doing very well: at time of writing it's the second best selling game on Steam right now by revenue, with only Counter-Strike 2 ahead of it. It sold a million copies in six days and currently has over 220,000 concurrent players, which is far higher than—to look at another newish live service game—Marathon's all-time peak of 88,337.
Yep: the numbers suggest that PC players are hungrier for a good pirate game than they are a new Bungie extraction shooter.
Here's where things land at the moment to give you some more context for how th...
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