Focus Entertainment Sees Record Launch for Space Marine 2 With Advanced Access
The trend of offering more expensive game editions with multi-day Advanced Access has also paid off for Focus Entertainment. The French publisher has outperformed all of its previous releases with Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 - and that's just with Advanced Access, as the regular version won't be released until 9 September 2024.
Becoming increasingly popular are games with Advanced Access. This is not the classic Early Access, but means that end-customers buy a certain edition of the game in order to be able to play it a few days earlier. Both World of Warcraft: The War Within and Star Wars Outlaws both offered this option. Focus Entertainment also made two editions of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 available with several days of Advanced Access. Buyers of the Gold Edition (€89.99) and the Ultra Edition (€99.99) were able to start on the evening of 5 September. The Standard Edition (€59.99) is scheduled for release on 9 November.