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PUBG reaches 481k concurrent players on Steam. Highest peak for a non-Valve game.
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Script of the Bridge
Banned
Rickenslacker
Banned
Pretty nutty. It's the first battle royale type game I ended up getting so I guess they're doing something right.
WhateverItTakes
Banned
I imagine for the kid numbers console is the goldmine.
BigBoss007
Member
Unstoppable train.
Sad Affleck
Member
Incredible success, good for them. I don't enjoy multiplayer games but it's always a joy when a smaller studio makes it big.
That's cool.
Yeah, I'm in the same boat. Certainly not my goty, not even close, but I'm interested to play match or two every now and then, and I hope that the other maps will change it up a bit.
Yeah, I'm in the same boat. Certainly not my goty, not even close, but I'm interested to play match or two every now and then, and I hope that the other maps will change it up a bit.
Monochromaticx
Member
rip team fortress ?
NegativeCero
Banned
Sitting in my library. Just have to find time to play and maybe check out if Gaf has a list for finding teammates to play with.
It's still a good price and he is right. Also the game will get more expensive when it will release so people should just buy it now. I also like to save a few bucks here and there, but it's also annoying to see people ask about a price decrease in any topic about this game. So I guess that is why he said it like that.
Game is totally worth it and it shows.
Definitely needs some polish and the servers are showing signs of strain. Although the game hides lag well, you can feel the impact of lag spikes and when you chute into a heavily contested area with lots of players close. Hopefully both these will see some improvement due to the console ports coming.
Hibiki Kurosawa
Member
Awesome! Glad to see! The game is a blast to play and the only mp game I've really been able to get into in the last 5 years.
If you were working at my team you are going to have a lot of free time in the future to shit post like this.
H1Z1 is more arcadey, but PBUG isn't as sim and clunky as Arma 3. Basically the best of both worlds so far. If you like genre then its the best there is out at the moment
GuitarGuruu
Member
It's a fun game but it can be incredibly frustrating too.
sixteen-bit
Member
PUBG is a beast
I wouldn't say £27 is super cheap, regardless of income.
Roufianos
Member
Wow.
Eh, in spite of what 'Gaf might have you believe, F4 is still significantly popular close to 2 years after launch (those pics are me a my friend's stats taken just now).
While not beyond reproach, the game remains popular with general audiences (i.e. those who aren't F1/F2/NV purists).
Anyway, congrats to PUBG.
It's always refreshing to see a sleeper breakout hit.
MontyBrown
Banned
Of course it is. Most games are £45-50.
It's half the price and much more than double the quality of most games sold at those price points.
Look, I love PUBG as much as the next guy. I love playing it. I love watching it. But I can't say I'm not a little worried at the precedent this is setting.
Like, why polish/finish your multiplayer game when you can dominate the world with a fun core system and sell that for full price? Why pour in the money and effort on providing a complete experience when you can throw it out early and see if it sinks or swims?
Like, why polish/finish your multiplayer game when you can dominate the world with a fun core system and sell that for full price? Why pour in the money and effort on providing a complete experience when you can throw it out early and see if it sinks or swims?
Do you think that price is going to go up when it leaves Early Access? Full price meaning "the final retail price of the finished product", not "the typical price of a AAA game"
MontyBrown
Banned
6m YouTubers?
I doubt it'll go up, but i think even "unfinished" that's a fair price for what is there.
LMAO
Harmondale
Member
This could be that one game thay finally makes me purchase PS PLUS fuck its that good
Whenever it comes to ps4
Whenever it comes to ps4
Script of the Bridge
Banned
Oh dear.
According to the early access page, it won't.
Is their English comprehension also in early access?
That's honestly a very dumb way to look at it, "Early access game is succesful so now everyone won't even bother making full featured games" is not a good argument at all. To be successful in early access is just as hard as being successful for a normal game if not harder as the community will be split after updates and changes during development.
That's uncalled for.
Will see you in Georgopol when the game came across your tired mainstream media as a "good game"
The parent company Bluehole Studio is based in S. Korea.
"The game will remain to be at the current price even after Early Access" is a bad sentence unless I've messed something up.
Yeah, it's still uncalled for
Well you're right that it's relative. It's certainly less than full price games, but I don't consider £27 to be super cheap. It's, as you imply there in the bolded, a middling price.
You're being super naive if you don't think Battlegrounds will become a case study for how to make bank in the multiplayer gaming space.
TF2's numbers have remained fairly steady.
They've gone down a little bit, but a large part of that is because Valve still hasn't shipped the summer update that normally comes out in June or July (though it's going to be one of the biggest updates the game has ever gotten, with new weapons for the pyro, a rebalance for the pyro and the game in general based on competative player feedback, improvements to the competitive matchmaking system with things like an ELO raking system and placement matches, a new Valve map with new jungle themed art assets, a 4-5 minute Meet the Team style video and more).
The big issue is that Valve basically skipped shipping any content for the Christmas update last December, so the last non Halloween major content update was Meet Your Match last July, which shipped in a semi-broken state.
Valve is moving TF2 in the direction of becoming a more competitive game and possibly an esport. I'm sure they're hoping if it does take off that the player base will increase much like CSGO. Hard to say if it will happen though, I imagine most people though CSGO would never become as big as it is today in the early days so never count Valve out. I don't think TF2 will probably ever be as big as DOTA2 or CSGO but there is room for growth.
Then H1Z1, DayZ really any early access game that has done well for themselves should have been the "case study" before this. The difference is that most of those games seems to have worse planning and consistant roadmaps than PUBG has, which has both weekly updates for bugs and stability and monthly for content additions.
So if you're really looking for a case study for not finishing your game, not even putting in the effort to update it consistantly and still selling insane amounts then they should use some other game than PUBG, maybe like The Forest or DayZ.
zombieshavebrains
I have not used cocaine
The mainstream media loves it already.
DayZ was a case study for this type of business model. There was huge influx of survival games after the mod got crazy popular. Some were okay'ish, a lot were terrible. Look up The War Z and its surrounding chaos.