Like 400k over the past two weeks. Most of their population dips coincide with mass bannings.
Black Ops 4 made them do it apparently.
PUBG's peak Steam player count is now starting to go down post Black Ops 4 release
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Like 400k over the past two weeks. Most of their population dips coincide with mass bannings.
Black Ops 4 made them do it apparently.
So one fifth of the players are cheating. Looks like I'll never be installing PUBG again.
210k of the overall population got banned, not the Peak Players.
OP doesn't seem to bother so can you as a mod not edit appropriately?
I mean, OP is just posting what's in the link so at first nothing wrong. But ignoring posts that might explain the drop and contradict the source of this thread is just bad behavior.
Games don't really kill eachother that often. When's the last time a game killed another game directly? When that happens it's not something where there is any useful data after just a few days, too. You need a longer view. Nothing useful will be in the numbers after only a few days.
The talk and articles about this are farcical. For my part, I don't think Bobo will have a big impact on PUBG because they're just too different and the audiences are too different.
The talk and articles about this are farcical. For my part, I don't think Bobo will have a big impact on PUBG because they're just too different and the audiences are too different.
210k players banned due to cheating shows what a joke PUBG is.
No, it shows how much it sold. The banning percentage isn't higher than any other successful Multiplayer game. Most Devs don't even mention the numbers or don't care about cheaters.
It was inevitable. Seemed like PUBG has had so many different issues with it over its life.
Black Out, out the gate, is already pretty polished. Some issues here and there, but by and large, its solid.
If Activision was smart, they'd break Blackout out, and offer it at a reduced price digitally.
Black Out, out the gate, is already pretty polished. Some issues here and there, but by and large, its solid.
If Activision was smart, they'd break Blackout out, and offer it at a reduced price digitally.
I'm sure the OP will pop back in and take a look. I do think the banning should be in the OT though. It's an important number that can get lost.
I'm sure BLOPS will have an impact on PUBG. I'm hoping that it's my entry into BR. I've tried them all, and they are not for me. Their version seems like something I'd eventually like.
Better than 210k cheaters not banned...
Let's see how Treyarch respond to cheaters on BO4
Havnt played Blops 4 myself. Lots of my friends have though.. they're pretten evenly split who likes blops 4 better or pubg better.
The consensus seems to be though that Blops is a much more polished game while Pubg still is pretty flawed but has much better depth.
The consensus seems to be though that Blops is a much more polished game while Pubg still is pretty flawed but has much better depth.
PUBG is done. Fortnite and LoL are next, they had a good run.
Lol, why are people so obsessed with stuff like this? Just play what you enjoy.
Lol, why are people so obsessed with stuff like this? Just play what you enjoy.
I was blown away when I saw PUBG with only like 1000 viewers on Twitch yesterday, even if a Fortnite tournament was going on. The mindshare has obviously shifted already. Still not in the top 10. Wonder how long it will take before it gets back up there.
I agree with the bolded, I think to me and many other people, it's ARMA roots are a lot of the appeal. I used to play Arma 3 Battle Royale, which was what came right before PUBG (other than PlayerUnknown working on what eventually became H1Z1's King of the Kill/whatever it is now).
I'd really love to see PUBG incorporate some of the features Arma 3 had that still have yet to be seen in PUBG.
- TrackIR/headtracking support
- Arma 3's stance system (something between crouch and prone, and stand and crouch, to help you aim between those window bars)
- Weapon resting, maybe even add bipods.
There's so many cheaters in PUBG that it causes that much of a dip in their peak player counts? That game needs to get a grip.
Like I said before in another thread, PUBG devs had months, literally months to improve the game, especially when a very well known AAA competitor is knocking on your door and directly telling you they are going to be in your lane soon, and those fools sat on their hands until very recently. Let's not sit here and act like CoD isn't big worldwide. You call PUBG a cockroach but Activision is the exterminator. Whether we like it or not they came ready, they listened to feedback and responded very fast, and most importantly optimized their game for all 3 platforms. Give it this holiday season(along with Battlefield's BR) and it's a wrap for PUBG.
We can all give PUBG props for starting the wave and grandfathering all of these new BR games in, but I don't see them staying relevant in late 2018, let alone 2019. They had their moment. It's over.
Edit: To the people saying Fortnite is done too, y'all trippin. Fortnite is half in the BR lane and half in the Minecraft lane. It might take a small dip but it will be more than fine, especially with the kids.
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Yes, you'd have to be living under a rock to not notice the myriad threads about it on the front page.
Math is hard.
How is banning cheaters not getting a grip? Are you supposed to just leave them be? What a dumb statement.
Is ... this directed at Nirolak? Do you think he has a post history where he claims to not care about PUBG?
He was never going to play pubg again either way. Let's not kid anyone.
Given the rampant cheating you're correct. I almost reinstalled it while going through Blackout withdrawl.
This. I have nothing against Niro, but this thread comes off like same style of the "Ninja Theory hiring for a game analytics position = Ninja theory going GaaS" and most people in the thread seemed to jump on that bandwagon. Which is as much speculation as saying the BLOPS release is the only cause of PUBG numbers going down. Yeah, sure, okay, I can buy that for a dollar. However, when BH is banning 100K to 300K accounts per week with some months more than others, 13 million accounts in just over a year, that information is pertinent.
It's a massive PC shooter so there's going to be cheaters. Would be a joke if many people weren't getting banned.
Blackout is so damn good and works so well, so no wonder here.
Being first person only helps too. I'm just scared for the after launch support, they need to add weapons, maps and weather system to it too and constantly keep it fresh like Fortnite, and not sure if this has been thing with earlier CoD games.
Being first person only helps too. I'm just scared for the after launch support, they need to add weapons, maps and weather system to it too and constantly keep it fresh like Fortnite, and not sure if this has been thing with earlier CoD games.
This post isn't getting enough attention. Why can our Era friend add some context and possible reasoning behind the declining player count, but 'Venture Beat' can't? lol the hell Do you have a link to that story anywhere dude?
They have a working Time of Day system ready to add if performance holds up
Awesome to hear! BO quickly became my go-to BR, great addition to Fortnite since they're so different thematically.
the game was in maintenance for 6h+, no one could play it.
4 days isn't really a trend. Also, from the accounts in this thread, it looks like several hundred thousand accounts were recently banned.
edit: edited my post because I don't really have any evidence that the article writer was acting in bad faith.
edit: edited my post because I don't really have any evidence that the article writer was acting in bad faith.
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Splitscreen was such a crazy and nice surprise. Don't care about the worse framerate in this case. I'm just grateful to the people who were responsible for putting splitscreen in this! :)