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PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) sells [16] million copies
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giancarlo123x
Banned
This is insanity
Sorry the online is being shut down, charts broken.
Liliana Eileen
Member
Would probably be in the negatives 😂
Christocolus
Member
This game ain't slowing down. Nice.
Blam
Member
Yeah this game is gonna become in it's own sense the LoL of Battle Royale games.
Spooky Scary Skeleton
Member
Ill bet my entire ps4 library that this game will hit 20 mil by the end of December.
By this pace, during the Winter Sales with a small discount, 25% or 30% they will sell at least, 4-5 more million copies.
AdventureRacing
Member
16 million, 1 million in 2 days. Insane.
Damn that's impressive. The game is still showing no signs of plateauing and if anything is accelerating. In a year with COD going back to WW2 and destiny 2 releasing PUBG still feels like it has a chance to be the best selling game of the year. It's a monster.
ShadowFox08
Member
Switch and ps4 versions need to happen!!!
Tokubetsu
Member
it won't need a sale lol
dragonzdogma
Member
The game really good I guess?
I've never heard of it and I don't think it's on PS4 yet.
Anyone mind telling why is it so popular or is like flappy bird where it went viral?
I've never heard of it and I don't think it's on PS4 yet.
Anyone mind telling why is it so popular or is like flappy bird where it went viral?
Graphics Horse
Member
End of October might be closer.
I wanna know what country the purple line is too. Europe?!
It's a 100 person game where everyone flies in on a plane over an 8km x 8km island, people drop out wherever they want. You start with nothing, loot buildings for weapons and armor. A circle closes in on a random point in the map, forcing players closer together. The last person standing wins. You can play by yourself, teams of 2, or teams of 4.
It's a little janky as it's still in EA, but it's tons of fun, and super tense because you never know where the other players are until it's time to fight.
As for "why" it's popular - it's hard to say. Honestly I think it's just a new genre that is coming into the mainstream and PUBG struck a chord. There's definitely a bit of luck - PUBG being developed in the right place and time - but it's also really popular with streamers which makes it fun to watch on Twitch as well.
Orthogonal
Member
16 million, 1 million in 2 days. Insane.
Take the 2 days part with a grain of salt. Remember that this is a wierd outlier that breaks the Steamspy algorithm so there are frequent spikes when it is adjusted to take into account the huge influx of newer Steam accounts.
Regardless, the game is a juggernaught.
I'm not sure if a sale will change the trajectory much. It feels like this is more of a game where people will get it to play it now, rather than one where they wait for a sale -- and it's already lower-priced.
I might be totally wrong of course, I also thought it would just barely get to 2 million CCU this year, and it did so on a weekday.
Graphics Horse
Member
It's 'all other countries' according to their twitter. But that means we need to know what the lower lines are for too!
Blam
Member
Yes this weekend I can see it at 2.2m.
This game is going to be hitting LoL levels of users by the end of next year. I'm calling it now.
Still behind me saying that it'll sell consoles.
Abilidebob
Member
It either sold a million in TWO freaking days, or Steamspy had a streak of luck and focused on new accounts or something.
What the hell
What the hell
Orthogonal
Member
Agreed, this game still has huge growth potential. Looking at the graph above, US has kind of peaked, but China is still growing exponentially, it hasnt even started an inflection point of slowing growth. Just insane.
2blackcats
Member
I'd like a more streamlined, slightly simplified version. No free look better inventory management, etc.
I think it will be difficult to copy effectively. Part of the charm of the the game is the hilarious car physics and the general weird shit that happens.
The same reason every other country loves PUBG and China happens to have a huge PC gamer crowd.
SteamSpy integrates new data over ~3 days. Looking at the trajectory I assume that 4 days ago a large batch of new accounts was added to the SteamSpy dataset (many of which were made primarily for PUBG) and the enormous numbers over the past few days was that data being integrated.
I assume we'll go back to the "normal" (but still insane) levels of growth now until the next new data integration push.
HomerSimpson-Man
Member
Goddamn, look at that China market.
Just like that movie box office, China market has nowhere to go but up.
Just like that movie box office, China market has nowhere to go but up.
StoppedInTracks
Member
I wonder if they have some thoughts/ doubts about pricing the game @ $30 now. Like if it was priced @ $50 then how much more money would they make?
16M x $30 = $480M
12M * $50 = $600M
Big diffrence and that is with 25% less sales assumption.
I know I would be spinning "what if" stories if I was the boss/ price strategies at the studio now!
16M x $30 = $480M
12M * $50 = $600M
Big diffrence and that is with 25% less sales assumption.
I know I would be spinning "what if" stories if I was the boss/ price strategies at the studio now!
No worries. Loot boxes are coming.
The game has different prices around the world( 30€, 30$, 25£ i think, in China is like 15$, in India, Brazil and Russia close to 10$ etc...), you have to cut the 30% of Valve and the 5-10% of Epic Games for licensing Unreal Engine 4. But yes, is it still a ton of money for them.
dave is ok
aztek is ok
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dragonzdogma
Member
This actually sounds kinda awesome - and 100 players sounds massive.
but now I have lot's of questions once you mentioned this circle appearing where the fight takes place.
So you could be walking around like a "ghost" and if the circle appears where your at, everyone will see you, is it like a spot light?
Also, if players cant see each other can you see the loot disappearing if someone else grabbed it?
And what happens if I'm outside of the circle when the circle appears,
do you die after a while?
what happens if I go outside of the circle in and out will that make me disappear and appear, wouldn't that be kinda cheap?
StoppedInTracks
Member
Insane.
Is the company structure/ IP ownership etc. the same as in Mojang?
I mean: will PLAYERUNKNOWN end up with MILLIONS like Notch did? Or is this a whole different company structure?
Mattakuevan
Member
Pretty sure they're more than happy with $480 million and rising. I doubt that's even crossed their minds.
Why is that? Do they have a zombie mode interest in those gaming circles?
Mass_Pincup
Banned
More player means bigger constant revenue through loot boxes and stuff.
They made the right choice.
2blackcats
Member
Dude, you should watch some streams. I don't watch streams normally but the PUBG are insanely entertaining. I like many others I'm sure, got hooked on the streams first before playing.
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