What makes the game good is the encounters. Being upstairs in a house and hearing the doors below open followed by footsteps. Really surprised you made it to 7th place and didn't see anyone. I can't walk across a field without being shot at.
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PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) sells [16] million copies
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What makes the game good is the encounters. Being upstairs in a house and hearing the doors below open followed by footsteps. Really surprised you made it to 7th place and didn't see anyone. I can't walk across a field without being shot at.
They already stated, that they have a recruiting issue. Programmers want to work on mobile titles in South Korea and not on PC (or console).
In software development you cant just recruit 100 people and fix something next month.
Hiring is long process, then is training phase etc.
Also not all development tasks are split-able, actually most of them arent.
There is good analogy in software development that you cannot get 9 woman and born a child in 1 month.
Spooky Scary Skeleton
Member
I would love to get this game and play it but I'm afraid that it's gonna make me play it too much to the point where I can't finish my backlogs of games.
jim2point0
Banned
Even solo, there's no way do you drop military base and not see anyone until the final 10. Or else that's just a random fluke. I don't even drop there anymore due to how many times I'm killed by the 17 people that land before me and get a gun first.
Same with school, which has even more people dropping.
Yasnaya for life. Get geared up. Drive to the edge of the circle. Kill people running in. Rinse and repeat.
Sure, but PC gaming is practically non-existent in Japan.
amdb00mer
Member
What I find interesting is the Xbox One is available in China. It had a good start, but then slowed as not enough games aimed at Chinese players were being released. I could see the Xbox One S or even the X being sold in bundles with this game, early access as it may be, to help push console sales even more.
I also believe this will be one of the first games to officially support keyboard and mouse input on the Xbox One.
Dropping into places like Pochinki is the the fastest way to get into immediate action and probably die before you get out resulting in mostly quick rounds. Also going in the direction of any gunfire and actively seeking players helps too. A vehicle speeds that process up, everyone likes to shoot at those.
Roude Leiw
Member
maybe i am lucky and just end up in easy games.
or i am super good at being stealthy
anyways my gf played it yesterday the first time ever and she ended up 12th. did not meet one single person until someone shot her.
Liliana Eileen
Member
Yep. Certain people are wallowing in salt right now.
Yeah but don't you think that they want the full release to be on the same level on both platforms? I mean I'm no expert in game development but if they keep adding new stuff on the Pc version doesn't it delay the xbox version because they are still working on different stuff. But what do I know I'm just a little concerned about my favorite game at the moment that's all.
I wouldn't be too worried about it. While getting all the Microsoft money for the Xbox version must be nice, their focus will surely be 100% on the PC version. That's where the Asian growth is coming from (China, Japan and South Korea could not care less about the Xbox version) and the PC is were they'll be trying to establish PUBG as an eSport. Plus all the loot box money they're making. The console version might as well be a nice side project for them at this point.
Heh. The way Gaf talks about this game? The numbers will go down.
Drillary Clinton
Banned
Its just a fad
China is #1
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
GTAV is still selling a lot after 4 years. For PC exclusives? I don't recall.
prag16
Banned
Can we finally close the book on claims that Fortnite BR was going to "eat PUBG's lunch", or that PU/Bluehole were "shook" by Fortnite?
EmCeeGramr
Member
I was walking to my local mom and pop game store to buy 100,000 copies of Gravity Rush 2 but then I read this post and bought 110,000 copies of PUBG instead
You know damn well that wont happen
charlequin
Banned
Well, yes, it's true that more people are having a legitimately great time enjoying PUBG at this exact moment than will enjoy GR2 in its lifetime. The self-sustaining reason for that though is the way people enjoyed PUBG right away and the numerous routes they used to communicate that enjoyment to others.
Persona 5
Night in the Woods
Bloodborne
Hollow Knight
Etc
Kinda weird to get worked up about a list of games that are all successful, most of them wildly successful, by the standards of their own genre and market positioning.
1) it's an extremely well-established psychological fact (which game designers frequently forget and need to relearn) that punctuated rewards are way more motivating than consistent ones. PUBG is quick to play when you lose and the thrill of performing well excites you to try again.
2) contrary to people who talk about casualization, the vast majority of massive left-field hits in gaming are actually extremely complex games that are notable primarily for being very clearly distinct and unique compared to other popular titles. The fact that there's a bunch of new stuff to learn that isn't the same as "normal" games actually helps put casual players and super-dedicated game hobbyists on more of an even footing.
All that have been answered by them.
Extra maps after release.
Vaulting coming end of this / start of next month.
Servers are worked on all the time.
Mr. Poolman
Member
Jesus Christ, Denton!
PUBG also offers something not very common (at least to an old geezer like me), the game is a lot of fun to watch.
I wouldn't go that far.
All in active development?
charlequin
Banned
It's also just exceptionally good at producing stories. I picked it up after hearing Austin and Patrick talk about a particularly wild game they had on Waypoint Radio. My third or fourth game, first one I didn't die super quick, I had a bit where a dude stole my car right away and then near the very end I spooked him with gunfire and he crashed and died. Everyone who's played the game has some bit like this where some unexpected set of events left them with a funny or wild experience that made them feel like they should keep playing and tell others to do the same.
texhnolyze
Banned
Minecraft is a good example but it didn't sell as fast as PUBG. Another example of similar phenomenon?
Liliana Eileen
Member
This game is everywhere. It's even right here under my name! And i don't even own the game!
Context?
superNESjoe
Member
Well deserved. It's a lot of fun.
paperspace
Member
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2blackcats
Member
I come in to these types of threads all the time and these types of comments are always here. I almost never see these "Fortnite will kill PUBG" comments. Is it the wider media you guys are referring to? Or am I just missing them? The only time I remember them was that PUBG PS4 thread.
I can't really remember why but the text under my name (check this post for example) is an ad for pubg. I think a mod did this.
:shrug:
Stabby McSter
Member
if you've played the game within the last two months it's really not THAT janky
of course this is in comparison to when it first launched
Crimsonclaw111
Member
PUBG is so good that I haven't even finished Zelda yet. It dethroned both Overwatch and CSGO as my go to multiplayer games. Long live PUBG.
Poimandres
Member
Welll I own the game, but I haven't gotten around to playing it yet.
I really should try it out soon!
I really should try it out soon!
flipswitch
Member
Thinking of jumping in. Is there a noob server or tutorial of some kind?
I gave Gravity Rush 2 the light of day and couldn't even finish it due to boredom.
AdventureRacing
Member
Have a look at the 'fortnite battle Royale had over 1 million players on its first day' thread. Its like there is this huge underbelly of people just waiting for a chance to throw shit at this game and its success.
2blackcats
Member
ashecitism
Member
At ~15.7m now
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