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This Week in MMOs — September 21–27, 2026

2026-09-21 → 2026-09-27. 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
Dune: Awakening5.4K10K+92%
Destiny 210K15K+42%
RuneScape: Dragonwilds9.8K14K+40%
Warframe53K66K+25%
Wizard101335417+24%

📉 Fallers this week

GamePrior week (avg)This week (avg)Change
SpiritVale6.1K2.9K-52%
Farever267228-15%
Tower of Fantasy260220-15%
The Lord of the Rings Online835738-12%
BitCraft Online446396-11%

🗓️ Release-schedule changes

  • Dune: Awakening — Console Launch (PS5 / Xbox Series X|S): confirmed → released · Launched on schedule on September 22, 2026 — the publisher's "Out Now on Console" post. source
  • Throne and Liberty — Colossus Vegamor update: confirmed → released · Shipped on schedule in Update 4.13.0 (maintenance 10:30 p.m. PT September 23 / 5:30 a.m. UTC September 24). source
  • RuneScape: Dragonwilds — 1.0 Launch: confirmed → released · Shipped on schedule: Jagex's "Dragonwilds 1.0 Release is now live" post is dated September 15, 2026 and lists PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox Series X|S and PC. source
  • EVE Vanguard — Persistent Alpha (24/7, paid access): November 2026 (announced) → November 10, 2026 (confirmed) · Fenris Creations dated the 24/7 Alpha on September 17 — the month window narrowed to a committed day. Access is now paid (EVE Launcher only); the earlier free-playtest framing no longer applies. source
  • Lost Ark — Dimensionalist class + Base Camp (Dimensions Unbound): September 2026 (announced) → September 16, 2026 (released) · Amazon never named a day in advance; the update went live on September 16, 2026 as Dimensions Unbound — the working-title Warpweaver class shipped as the Dimensionalist, with the Mokoko Base Camp event. source
  • Guild Wars 2 — Visions of Eternity: Code of Creation: confirmed → released · Released as scheduled on September 15, 2026 — ArenaNet's launch-day post: "Visions of Eternity wraps up its dramatic story arc today with the release of 'Code of Creation.'" source
  • Throne and Liberty — Colossus Vegamor update: Late September 2026 (delayed) → September 24, 2026 (confirmed) · The September 15 'Vegamor Awakens' devblog named the day — the late-September window narrowed to a committed date; the August → September slip stays on record above. source
  • Aion 2 — Launch Scale Test (open stress test): confirmed → released · Ran as announced on September 17 (6 AM–12 PM PDT) and September 18 (12–6 PM PDT); Advance Access (September 30) and the October 5 launch are unchanged. source
  • World of Warcraft: Forever — Beta: confirmed → released · Opened on schedule on September 17, 2026 — Blizzard's "Beta Now Live" post; the test runs through October 21 with pack buyers and selected opt-ins. source

🚀 Confirmed in the next two weeks

  • Aion 2 — Advance Access (Founder's Packs) · Early Access · September 30, 2026
  • Monsters & Memories — Early Access · Early Access · October 1, 2026
  • Aion 2 — Global Launch (PC) · Launch · October 5, 2026

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