ARC Raiders is, at the time of this writing, one of the most popular games in the video game industry. There are currently more than 300K people on Steam alone playing it right now . Its developer, Embark Studios, just celebrated 700K+ concurrent players over the weekend and over 4 million copies sold since it launched less than two weeks ago .

Embark is also a relatively small studio making huge waves in competitive genres, with its free-to-play first-person shooter, The Finals, and now with its third-person extraction shooter, ARC Raiders. In many ways, it's great to see a small to mid-size team have such an impact where historically only juggernauts can survive, and yet, a cloud of controversy hangs over the game, and conversation around that controversy has bubbled over in onlin

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