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PUBG has #1 peak population on Steam beating out Dota 2 & CSGO
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GAF has "New news, new thread" policy, which means that users are encouraged to create a new thread when there's a notable update to an existing topic. A non-Valve game dethroning Dota 2 as the most-played game on Steam by concurrent users is one such example. That's why this (dupe) thread exists even though there's a recent thread regarding the milestone of 800k+ concurrent players.
Thanks for keeping it on the front page!
Subpar Scrub
Banned
When I started pubg I didn't have most other players telling me to kill myself or get cancer, so that was nice.
But is it GotY material
In my opinion, excluding goty awards for best multiplayer experience or best team game or something, no. Like, it's great and I've put over 100 hours into it, but it's still flawed and doesn't have a particularly unique story, world or characters to work off.
Raylan Targaryen
Member
30% without investing any money is potentially better than 100% while investing.
They don't have to do anything and get to watch the money flow in.
Dumb question (never played the game), but how does that work? It seems like being able to get into a game with your friends would be a massive advantage over anyone playing solo
Subpar Scrub
Banned
There's solo, duo and 4 man squad modes.
uh, unless Mario and Zelda mess each other up, it'll be one of those two. Bayo2 already won. So your point is wrong
next year will probably be RDR2 or GoW though (is TLOU2 2018)
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
We are talking about Valve here. The company that hired Icefrog as soon as the beta for League of Legends dropped. PUBG is not an MMO so im expecting Valve to do something here. Theres too much money to be made.
Valve tried buying Turtle Rock and that didn't end up working out, I don't really see them buying another studio.
I don't know why you would think Valve would want to make their own battle arena type game. Given everything they're working on I doubt they have the man power and I doubt Source 2 is designed for open world type maps. Sometimes a platform holder just needs to be happy when their partner's game does better than their games (and enjoy the money they make off said game).
Orthogonal
Member
Look at that chart, it is still in accelerated growth. It hasnt even shown an inflection down. The ceiling for this will be much, much higher.
OnionPowder
Member
Almost as if its one of the most popular games right now
rokkerkory
Member
I might be underestimating what this game will do for 1X then.
paperspace
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it's going to suck balls on gamepad but that never stopped console players before
I hope not. I'm fine without getting told to kill myself or other fun stuff like that which often plagues text chats of PC MP games.
LordBaztion
Member
Good, with the dying DOTA, now valve will be forced to make episode three
hanspampel
Banned
Beating out cs:go all time peak.
Just 1 record left
Just 1 record left
I mean can't the same be done through voice chat?
Hmmm, SLIGHT hyperbole ?
Orthogonal
Member
You mean Artifact?!?
LordBaztion
Member
was a joke. Half Life if dead
I know this feel all too well.
Then again, I don't keep up with the latest social media gaming trends.
You could do the same with text chat. I don't think the inevitable assholes who spam it with nonsense are reason enough to not have it at all. I think it'd be a nice addition.
paperspace
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And Valve just added this to the Dota 2 website.
Dota 2 averages ~550k at any time Vs PUBG's ~350k.
Dota 2's all-time peak is over 1.2M concurrent.
While PUBG is hitting higher spikes than any other game on Steam right now, it still has some way to go to take the crown from Dota 2 to be the most popular game on the platform.
Trickster
Member
I don't mind the threads for it beating CS and Dota 2.
But I must admit I'm a bit tired of seeing threads for it on what feels like a daily basis.
Game is popular and is selling like absolute crazy, I get it at this point.
For teams, not global chat. That's be stupid.
FTFY
paperspace
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Orthogonal
Member
I think they acquire PUBG before doing something like that.
Frankfurter
Member
Going by its recent growth rate, it'll probably be like only a week or so til it hits 1 million+ concurrent.
sixteen-bit
Member
With how timely they are matching their competitors, I'd say 4 years from now
Glass Shark
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