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PUBG tops 8 million copies sold and 700K concurrent users
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Nailed it.
shotgunbob04
Member
I almost thought this was the 7 mil thread lol.
I wonder how many people have bought PCs just for this game.
I wonder how many people have bought PCs just for this game.
Sad Affleck
Member
Incredible success.
Random Human
They were trying to grab your prize. They work for the mercenary. The masked man.
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It sells a ridiculous amount of copies per day, that's it. The three day delay means for that alone it will be off for at least half a million sales.
Kaffeemann
Banned
Or maybe, just maybe, there is no point in having what is basically the same thread each time this game sells another million. Other games don't get this luxury. So, I ask, why this game?
Because this game is an anomaly in a sea of unfinished AAA products.
Yes, yes we are. Until one day nobody drops in with post like "what's PUBG".
Every game gets that luxury. Get off your ass and make those threads yourself.
capitalCORN
Member
Muh exclusives!
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Feel like literally every week we get a thread about this game selling a million more copies lol. Devs put in that work.
Other games also don't set a new record every month
Raylan Targaryen
Member
because most games don't sell a million every two weeks? GTA does but RockStar doesn't give out those numbers often, but when they do there are threads about it.
most games sell 90% of their lifetime sales on release. no one cares what Nier sold 3 months after it came out because it's probably like 1000 copies.
Also combined with the sales data is the player count number as both rise simultaneously. PUBG is about to surpass CSGO for 2nd peak players and within reach of passing Dota, which it will if it continues at the current rate.
Err, poor example lol
Three month after release Nier sold 2k copies every week in Japan.
if this was another weeb game yall would be all over it
Raylan Targaryen
Member
Surprised if we don't see at least one AAA copy in E3 2018 with simplified mechanics like easier gunplay.
Because this is the first truely successful one that seems to be mainstream accepted, so you bet there are publishers now gagging for there own. No way would any AAA pub/Dev made a game like this without seeing the receipts. Imagine trying to focus test PUBG.
Because the AAA machinery is incredibly sluggish in adapting to entirely new types of gameplay.
That's why basically all new "phenomenon" games - and entire (sub-)genres - are invented on PC.
Generally, the order of how agile a way to implement a new gameplay idea is goes like this:
[1] Mods
[2] Small-scale indie games
[3] "A"-tier games (by established publishers or larger independent devs)
[4] "AAA" tier big publisher focus testing
hell
This applies pretty broadly tomost things you'd call new "genres" in the past decade+. Tower defense and MOBAs from SC/WC3 user-created maps (an instance of [1]), survival games and now battle royale games from ARMA mods ([1] again), building-type games from Minecraft (or its more obscure predecessors, anyway it's [2]).
These new "inventions" then usually move up the ladder, but it always seems to take quite a long time in all these instances.
You're questioning what a moderator deems thread worthy. If it upsets you that much then feel free to not post in these threads.
The "PUBG 7 million sold" thread was posted 5 days ago, insane.
I'm guessing most pre-exisiting multiplayer shooter IP's will start including Battle Royale-inspired modes too. It would be very interesting to see a full-blown AAA take on Battle Royale though.
cripterion
Member
You mean people keep buying it but the game is still ways off being cleaned up. And we need the vaulting update like yesterday.
Felix Lighter
Member
You're not going to want the vaulting system rushed. Even with them taking their time, I imagine it's about to introduce a ton of bugs.
bananafactory
Banned
If I have to harbor a guess
-The usual people that don't enjoy something popular, and rather than acknowledge it's not for them decide that it's bad, or somehow undeserving of its success
-Console only players annoyed they can't play it
-PS4 only players even more annoyed they won't be able to play it but Xbox users will
So really there's probably lots of reasons
I'm surprised Ubi didn't make one yet with how well the survival mode in Division was made.
The average modern AAA game takes 3-4+ years to developers.
Amazon announced one around this time last year, and Ubisoft has been pretty clear they intend to add a mode like this to The Division, but the earliest I could imagine seeing either of those in any kind of release is this Fall.
Zeyphersan
Banned
Have we seen how the game plays with a controller yet? I imagine the UI needs some major reworking
Kleegamefan
K. LEE GAIDEN
My wife and I play the pve battle royale survival mode in the Division almost exclusively. Amazing fun
SatelliteOfLove
Member
GAF's GOTY early maneuvers. Remember 2015?
Random Human
They were trying to grab your prize. They work for the mercenary. The masked man.
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I don't, what happened in the leadup to them?
OnionPowder
Member
I personally know of 2 people who did. Game is a beast.
Kleegamefan
K. LEE GAIDEN
I've been playing survival mode in the Division for the last 6 months.
I learned about PUBG afterwards and I have been waiting for a console port ever since. I love to watch duo matches on YouTube and I can't wait to "Jump In" when I get a couple of Xbox One Xs for my wife and I in November.
phantasmic_glaive
Member
All this hubbub about this game has me ready to buy it on Xbox and I don't even know what the hell it is! Anybody?
Iced Arcade
Member
This game is the next/current big thing and I don't fully understand it. But it's everywhere
I would guess this is the biggest one.
This is seen as some weird PC multiplayer game that's going to outsell Zelda, Horizon, Persona 5, Nier Automata, Uncharted 4, and even some major singleplayer hits of yesteryear like The Witcher 3.
The à¹ÛBronx
Member
Though I certainly think PUBG is a contender for GOTY I'd avoid going too far down the 'sales = quality' route. I know what you're saying, that it's abundantly clear that the game resonates with a lot of people and is extremely popular, I just don't want that drowned out by someone focusing on how it was said in some dramatic fashion.
Land on a big island with 100 other players starting with nothing. Scavenge for gear and fight to be the last person/squad alive. No respawns. A circle denoting the zone of play gets smaller as the game progresses, pushing the players closer together until one player/squad is left. Then they eat some chicken.
martincrimson87
Banned
C'mon GAF be your usual self and somehow discredit those figures and claim that PC gaming is dying. We are 2 pages in this thread already.
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