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PUBG becomes first Steam game to have one million concurrent players 365 days running
- Thread starter Theorry
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But Era told me PUBG was dead! /s
Incredible success, and while the numbers are going down, that can be said for most games. Still, a year in, it has numbers that make a lot of triple-A games look like indies in comparison. Now imagine if it wasn't janky, hah.
Incredible success, and while the numbers are going down, that can be said for most games. Still, a year in, it has numbers that make a lot of triple-A games look like indies in comparison. Now imagine if it wasn't janky, hah.
This drop in concurrent users isn't thát bad is it? I think most games would be jealous of these numbers.
For sure. It still generally gets double the daily concurrent peak of the number two game, Dota 2(!)
Fortnite is not on Steam. It's on the Epic Launcher.
Epic doesn't want Valve to get 30% of the revenue. :P
it's still huge. some people wanted to downplay it for an obvious reason, but that won't make the game become less popular.
Presume this is tracking its peak concurrent players every day. Not necessarily that it hasn't ever dipped below 1,000,000 (because a network/server outage would do that at any time).
Definitely impressive, although it'll probably not be repeated without a major shake up of the game. It's already in decline due to Fortnite and with CoD and Battlefield entering the battle royale genre PUBG is going to find it hard to stay relevant.
Yes. It is the first Steam game to lose 2 million peak users in 9 months.
No other game on Steam could have ever managed that.
Because no other game in the history of Steam ever surpassed 2 million peak users to begin with. It is kind of wild.
That would require a lot of work. Two completely different games. And I'm not sure why you'd want a game like PUBG to be a crossplay game, but that's me.
MK >>>>>>>>>> controller
That sucks.
Works great on Fortnite.
PUBG will still be huge in a year. It's being improved, updated and getting new content every month.
BF or COD BR will never reach 1 million concurrent users on PC. Even 200,000 would surprise me.
BF or COD BR will never reach 1 million concurrent users on PC. Even 200,000 would surprise me.
Oops misunderstood this post
playing PUBG on a PC vs Xbox users would be like shooting crabs in a barrel, much moreso than in Fortnite
They're (currently) two different versions of the game. Xbox just hit 1.0 last week whereas Steam version hit 1.0 back in December. Ignoring any player ability/performance differences, they're just two different versions of the game. It couldn't work.
Xbox is at 1.0 as of this week.
PC is 20 updates beyond that.
And they're not equal updates either. They're two different shards. Xbox version launched with vaulting before the PC aversion implemented it, despite the Xbox version launching without the Miramar map that the PC got at 1.0. They're different and they update at a different rate.
Lmao
CoD and Battlefield will never even reach the sales of PUBG PC. They won't ever be as popular or have as many total players either.
Big time. PUBG has sold twice as many copies in a year as the most popular COD game (MW3) has in seven years. It would be a miracle if a COD or Battlefield game in 2018 did those numbers. Black Ops 4 would have to sell twice as many copies as Black Ops 1 or 2.
PUBG has outsold every game in existence apart from Tetris, Minecraft, Wii Sports and GTAV.
I stopped playing this on Xbox a month ago, but got back in because of the 1.0 release/ new map update and I'm completely hooked again, Sanghok is such a different experience compared to the other two maps and it wouldn't surprise me if it's brought a lot of players back to both PC and Xbox.
Two games that won't be Steam? With one historically selling like trash on PC and the other having low pre order numbers?
my dude, that's not true
Xbox is 2 updates behind
except for the update that added the beryl into live servers Xbox is right there with feature parity.
they said in their roadmap they are currently 6-8 weeks out and want to close the gap to 2-4 weeks.
and fwiw the Xbox version is worth on update 19 or 20 since launch also.
It's in a great place now on Xbox too. I honestly don't see even call of duty taking away from that on consoles if fortnite can't. The game is just flat out good. Battlefield could've copied it and been a better running better looking version of pubg but I don't think they're going that route.
Oh that's good! Thanks for the clarification. I just know that PC is on Update 20 since 1.0 so took that as '20 updates ahead'. I guess all updates aren't made equally though are they?
Because they both have BR modes and unlike Fortinte, they're have similarities to PUBG because they're both 1st person and have a military setting.
I think there are bigger differences that will keep them apart than FPP and military. You might be right but, as a big fan of both Fortnite and PUBG, I see COD (particularly) appealing to the Fortnite crowd much more than the PUBG crowd.
Not to mention that both games (COD and BF) won't be on Steam, traditionally have sold far, far, far fewer copies than PUBG and that a large portion of PUBGs crowd is in Asia were COD and BF mean a lot less.
I guess you're right, it will be interesting. I'm fascinated. Can't wait to play the COD Blackout beta today!
yeah and they have been catching up very quickly, i edited into my post if you didn't know "and fwiw the Xbox version is on update 19 or 20 since launch also."
i think by the time we get to snow map they will be nearly merged if not simultaneous