The % of people this happened to would not be that high.
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PUBG is now the biggest game on Steam in history | over 2m CCU, beats Dota 2 peak
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The % of people this happened to would not be that high.
This comes across as another Steam starts up on boot on my Uncle's computer. Stating that you believe something like that, meaning that somewhere around a million users (for it to be significant) would have had to be banned and then bought the game again, is absurd if you have no supporting evidence whatsoever.
no worries, there's plenty of janky ass battle royale games right now for us to enjoy, who needs polish or quality?
CraigerGamer
Member
I'm curious if this game would have sold as well if it wasn't $25? I've always held the argument that many games would actually make more money if they released at a lower price. Had PUBG been $69.99 out the gate, would it still have been such a huge hit?
Felix Lighter
Member
Inflated by a significant amount? How many people do you think have been banned? The game is nearing 2 million CCU. The sales are 13+ million, the percentage of the player population playing at a single moment in time is astoundingly high. If some significant portion of the population is just banned player rebuys, that CCU is even more crazy. Truth is though, that the percentage of permanently banned players is a tiny fraction and the number that paid an additional $30 to rebuy is even smaller and represents an insignificant blimp compared to total sales.
No doubt this game found most of it's success thanks to Twitch.
Felix Lighter
Member
It's gone both ways. Major twitch streamers brought a lot of attention early on, but at the same time a lot of very small streamers have become huge because of this game.
Saucycarpdog
Member
Would it matter?
It's really weird how some players think Asia is something that can discounted. Why? Cause it's not the west?
paperspace
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I don't think they can be discounted though? Not sure how you got that from my post.
The_Super_Inframan
"the journey to a thousand games ends with bad rats. ~Lao Tzu" ~Gabe Newell
China is number 1. South korea took number 2 a month back, then US, Germany, UK
jim2point0
Banned
That wouldn't have an effect on the game smashing concurrent player records though.
It's a frustrating game. It's a buggy game. But damn if the concept isn't compelling. The rush I get from this game is like none other. Fortnite BR is great, but it's much easier to win so I don't get the same thrill. In PUBG, I get more of a rush just killing someone in the top 10 than I do winning a game of Fortnite. The gunplay in PUBG is just so much more difficult to master that I rarely win the final 1v1.
Owner data from Steamspy
Thanks guys. What's up with China having more players than owners? Account sharing?
paperspace
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Sho_Nuff82
Member
How would that interpretation work with the concurrent user data?
davidwhangchoi
Member
is this a popular game? never heard of it
Oh, derp. Haha, thanks.
Abilidebob
Member
Chinese players play the game more than other regions. I think it'd be something like that:
In other regions about 75% of owners play the game, while the rest sit with it on their library. While in China 97% of owners play the game. And as there are more Chinese owners than other regions, that skews the player numbers.
Let's say PUBG sold 10 million, but there are "only" 9 million players.
Chinese owners correspond to 30%, 3 million. BUT, out of those 3 million, 2.9 million play the game. The percentage of Chinese players is higher than Chinese owners, out of the total.
prag16
Banned
Get outta here. iirc they said they've banned a couple hundred thousand accounts or so. That's 1-2% of purchasers. Of that 1-2%, even less actually turned around and rebought (much less multiple times).
PUBG derangement syndrome continues to run wild.
hans_castorp
Member
yeah but how many of those accounts are aunts who downloaded the game by error and left it runing in the background?
Seems like Fortnite didn't have as much of an impact as people predicted. Is that game released everywhere in the world?
Also, of all the people I know that play PUBG, we are all currently still playing. It's crazy. We haven't even given Fortnite a second look. Honestly don't think it will have a big impact on PUBG moving forward
Also, of all the people I know that play PUBG, we are all currently still playing. It's crazy. We haven't even given Fortnite a second look. Honestly don't think it will have a big impact on PUBG moving forward
No it's very straightforward, net cafe culture in China is massive, not everyone can afford even run-of-the-mill rigs to play PC games. A single net cafe computer with PUBG might see 5 players over the course of a day.
At least that's how I interpret it. My only doubt is how Steamspy can differentiate players from owners.
At least that's how I interpret it. My only doubt is how Steamspy can differentiate players from owners.
Yeah, the real number is 500k but everyone got banned so its fake 15mil
To be fair, most of them log into their own account when playing in net cafe.
Steamspy looks at people that actually own it, aka have it registered to their profile.
To be clear, there are absolutely bots inflating the count, and I believe it's a greater number than banned-cheaters-rebuying-their-accounts, but it ultimately is 1) a symptom of the growth and success of the game to begin with and 2) is most likely a marginal number in the overall scheme of things
https://pubgtracker.com/leaderboards
All the WG-qun and KJ-qun are using cheat software that is advertising it to other players.
Again, I'm not trying to take away from the game at all or say that it's success isn't as valid, just pointing out that these are real things happening in the game
demosthenes
Member
This is amazing.
Abilidebob
Member
Bluehole needs to go HARD on these fuckers. Fucking cheaters.
Huge Succeeded
Banned
exactly how many people do you think have been banned from this game in the first place?
Frozenprince
Banned
I highly, highly doubt that is a meaningful metric boost in sales.
charlequin
Banned
don't do that please
Owner data from Steamspy
China DOES care!
paperspace
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texhnolyze
Banned
Yup. On the same boat here. I have 0 interest in PUBG but this is such a blessing to the video game industry.
PUBG is a phenomenon that will ve remembered for years if not decades.