Age of Ascent

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Age of Ascent
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Developer(s) Illyriad Games [1]
Publisher(s) Illyriad Games
Platform(s) Web browser
Genre(s) Space trading and combat simulator, first-person shooter
Mode(s) Multiplayer

Age of Ascent is a video game [2] that aims to become the largest MMO game ever created. [3] It is a spaceship piloting game built on cloud-based architecture. [4] The game was officially announced on February 28, 2014.

On March 14, 2014 Age of Ascent attempted to set a new Guinness World Record for the "World's Largest Videogame PvP Battle" during a public alpha. [5] The alpha was designed to support over 50,000 players with a throttling mechanism in place to handle up to 2,000,000 players. However, at its peak, the test saw 997 concurrent players, utilizing only 2% of the deployed server CPU capacity, [6] falling short of Eve Online's record of 4070. [7] The game was released out of early access on Steam in March 2022, but has never recorded any player activity since then. [8]

References

  1. ↑ Maiberg, Emanuel (March 3, 2014). "Age of Ascent attempts to create the largest PvP battle in history March 14". PC Gamer . Retrieved September 14, 2014.
  2. ↑ Hindman, Beau (February 28, 2014). "MMObility: Age of Ascent hopes to beat EVE Online's battle concurrency record". Joystiq. Archived from the original on September 28, 2014. Retrieved September 14, 2014.
  3. ↑ "How Age of Ascent Aims to Become the Biggest MMO Ever". Intel. June 23, 2014. Archived from the original on September 14, 2014. Retrieved September 14, 2014.
  4. ↑ Walden, Chris. "Age of Ascent: Defining a new genre and plans to smash a world record". Microsoft . Retrieved September 14, 2014.
  5. ↑ Burns, Chris (March 14, 2014). "Age of Ascent aims at world record for largest video game battle". SlashGear . Retrieved September 14, 2014.
  6. ↑ Kidd, Neil (March 16, 2014). "Not enough Space combat in Windows Azure!". Microsoft. Archived from the original on April 18, 2014. Retrieved September 14, 2014.
  7. ↑ "How Age of Ascent aims to become the biggest MMO ever". Killscreen. 2014-07-11. Retrieved 2025-08-13.
  8. ↑ "Age of Ascent Playtest Steam Charts (App 1745230)". SteamDB. Retrieved 2025-08-13.
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