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Mechanic shooting action game Metal Rage: Iron Ghost (known as Iron Ghost in Japan), developed by GameHi and serviced in Japan by Gameyarou, surpassed 10,000 concurrent users on its first day of open beta service (OBT) and showed an excellent start.
Metal Rage: Iron Ghost, which started its OBT on December 17th at 4PM, recorded more than 5,000 concurrent users about an hour later, and soon had more than 10,000 concurrent users around 8PM. Metal Rage: Iron Ghost continued to have good user statistics through out the first weekend with words of mouth from the users and newly registered users.
Metal Rage: Iron Ghost marked a rare record for a casual game and proved its highly-addictive game contents to the picky Japanese mechanic manias: average playing time per user was 249 minutes. Users left comments such as “This game adds more fun with new machines and weapons as I get used to the game,” “excellent graphics. I was in awe when I saw the map for the first time,” and “I am excited for the boss battle and PvE” in satisfaction of the game as well as expectation for future updates.
Gameyarou’s director Yoon-Suk Choi stated, “The only game that surpassed 10,000 concurrent users in FPS/TPS genre in Japan was Sudden Attack, but even this record needed about half a year from the start of the service. With the new record-setter Metal Rage and Sudden Attack which has been on the top of FPS chart, Gameyarou will establish a strong foothold in Japanese online game.”
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