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This Week in MMOs — September 7–13, 2026

2026-09-07 → 2026-09-13. Movers compare average Steam concurrent players this week against the week before; games under 150 average players are excluded. Generated automatically from daily tracking, the release tracker, and the news archive.

📈 Risers this week

GamePrior week (avg)This week (avg)Change
Final Fantasy XIV14K17K+19%
DC Universe Online298348+17%
Ragnarok X: Next Generation138154+12%
Warframe52K57K+9%
The Elder Scrolls Online6.4K6.8K+7%

📉 Fallers this week

GamePrior week (avg)This week (avg)Change
PIONER34767-81%
Fellowship310247-20%
SpiritVale11K8.6K-19%
Mortal Online 2379315-17%
Myth of Empires724625-14%

🗓️ Release-schedule changes

  • ArcheAge Chronicles — Network Test (US & Canada): confirmed → released · Ran as scheduled: XLGAMES posted "Network Test Now Live" at the 7:00 PM EDT start and "Network Test Has Ended" at the 1:00 AM EDT close. source
  • Aion 2 — Global Launch (PC): October 2026 (delayed) → October 5, 2026 (confirmed) · NC named the day at gamescom Opening Night Live on August 25, 2026 — the October window narrowed to a committed date; the earlier September → October slip stays on record. source
  • Chrono Odyssey — Global Launch: Q1 2027 → Q2 2027 · Pushed one more quarter in Kakao Games' 2Q 2026 earnings call (August 5, 2026); the co-CEO told investors there will not be further delays. source
  • Stars Reach — Steam Early Access: confirmed → released · Early Access opened on Steam on August 18, 2026 as committed — no slip. Severe launch-week server issues were followed by nine hotfixes in two weeks (Starside, September 4). source
  • Scars of Honor — Steam Early Access: Q1 2027 (estimated) → 2027 · Beast Burst's own written statement (MeinMMO interview, June 30, 2026) is that late 2026 was the original aim and 2027 is the realistic Early Access target; the Q1 2027 figure traced only to a fan-site relay of a stream remark, so the tracker now carries the studio's year-precision window. source
  • Ragnarok Zero — Global PC Launch: TBA (announced) → August 18, 2026 (released) · Gravity Game Unite launched Ragnarok Zero: Global on August 18, 2026 — PC client, subscription model, serving Southeast Asia, Europe, and Oceania. The Americas are not in the launch region list. source
  • EverQuest — Lethar (Time-Locked Expansion server): confirmed → released · Opened on schedule on August 26, 2026 at noon PT, starting in The Serpent's Spine with the personal-loot ruleset — the official "Lethar Server is now open!" post is dated August 26. source
  • The Elder Scrolls Online — Season Two: Autumn 2026 (announced) → October 21, 2026 (confirmed) · Game Director Nick Giacomini's July 30 roadmap letter pinned the season start — the autumn window narrowed to a committed date, it did not slip. Update 51 moved one week to September 28 on PC/Mac. source
  • Albion Online — Dragonfire update: confirmed → released · Dragonfire (version 32.000.1) shipped as scheduled on August 31, 2026 across PC, console, and mobile. source
  • Guild Wars 2 — Visions of Eternity: Code of Creation: 2026 (announced) → September 15, 2026 (confirmed) · ArenaNet named the third and final Visions of Eternity update — Code of Creation — on August 11 and dated it September 15; the year window narrowed to a committed day, it did not slip. source
  • Throne and Liberty — Colossus Vegamor update: August 2026 → Late September 2026 · Amazon's August 14 Resistance Report rescheduled the Colossus Vegamor update from August to September to prioritise the Q4 handover of Western operations to NC; the August 26 Update 4.9.0 notes refine it to "the end of September". No new date has been given for the bundled Castle Siege and Tax Delivery changes. source

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