PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Falls Below 1 Million Concurrent Players

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While Fortnite, which is now the most popular game in the world, has gone ahead and stolen all of its glory, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds remains incredibly successful in its own right—so successful that it went a full year maintaining a peak concurrent player count on Steam of over a million. It became the first game ever to do so in the process, according to SteamDB.

That’s fantastic—however, the news is bittersweet. SteamDB also reveals that on the day after that year had passed, the player concurrent count fell to 960,000 players- making this the first time in a year that it has dipped below a million. At its peak, PUBG had concurrent counts of 3 million, so this is definitely proof of some of its lost shine and lustre—other battle royale games now exist, and attract followings, too.

With the upcoming battle royale modes for Call of Duty and Battlefield, competition will only get even fiercer. While I am sure PUBG will always be popular, will it ever reclaim its lost heights? We’ll see if PUBG Corp can actually get the game back to its former stature.

Posted: Sep 13, 2018 6:16 pm
Related Forum: Gaming Discussion

Source: https://gamingbolt.com/playerunknowns-battlegrounds-falls-below-1-million-concurrent-players-for-the-first-time-in-a-year

Comments

TTGPosted: Fri. Sep 14, 2018

It must be from Black ops 4 Blackout.

lbreadsticklPosted: Fri. Sep 14, 2018

Two_Faced
Maze
Privileged I think black out is going to take pubg off the map who's gunna play a badly made game over one that's made near enough perfect

Blackout is probably the most similar BR compared to PUBG. Feel like it's for sure gonna take a lot of the players. Not to mention, after Christmas when a lot of kids get cod, even more will leave PUBG

I will not touch Blops 4 BR on general principle. How many years have they failed us? How many years have they delivered the same game? I don't care if it's the #1 game in the world. I WILL NOT PLAY IT. Wake up people, they (basically) steal another game. Literally almost to the T. Catch me on fortnite, or catch me cleaning my house. I for one, boycott this game.

I'm in the same boat. After ghosts I told myself I wouldn't play another.. I eventually stopped right before AW or BO2 (whichever came first can't remember). Just watching it I knew it wasn't good,, but I haven't bought or played since. I feel the same way about what u said, I won't give a shat if it's #1. It's been the same or worse for too long. Others will learn, most won't.

Two_FacedPosted: Thu. Sep 13, 2018

Maze
Privileged I think black out is going to take pubg off the map who's gunna play a badly made game over one that's made near enough perfect

Blackout is probably the most similar BR compared to PUBG. Feel like it's for sure gonna take a lot of the players. Not to mention, after Christmas when a lot of kids get cod, even more will leave PUBG

I will not touch Blops 4 BR on general principle. How many years have they failed us? How many years have they delivered the same game? I don't care if it's the #1 game in the world. I WILL NOT PLAY IT. Wake up people, they (basically) steal another game. Literally almost to the T. Catch me on fortnite, or catch me cleaning my house. I for one, boycott this game.

MazePosted: Thu. Sep 13, 2018

Privileged I think black out is going to take pubg off the map who's gunna play a badly made game over one that's made near enough perfect

Blackout is probably the most similar BR compared to PUBG. Feel like it's for sure gonna take a lot of the players. Not to mention, after Christmas when a lot of kids get cod, even more will leave PUBG

LebronIs6Posted: Thu. Sep 13, 2018

That's what happens when you don't content drop on the usual to out play your competitors LMAO

TikToK_LavishCODPosted: Thu. Sep 13, 2018

I think black out is going to take pubg off the map who's gunna play a badly made game over one that's made near enough perfect