13 million PUBG accounts have been banned since mid-2017

Cheating is a big problem in many online games, and PlayerUnknonw’s Battlegrounds is no exception. This is a fairly common complaint in the PUBG community, where the developer is not doing their best to fight hackers.

But Redditor skj045 discovered numbers that confirm 13 million accounts have been permanently banned in the past 69 weeks.

The figures are based on BlueHole’s weekly report on PUBG Cafe Korea, which includes the number of hackers banned that week. At first, the ban was relatively mild – only 1,852 accounts were banned in the first week, 1,294 accounts were processed in the second week – but the numbers increased rapidly: 132,676 accounts were banned in week 32 and over 1 million accounts banned in week 42.

Sjk045 confirms these numbers represent the number of banned accounts, not the person being banned – it is highly likely that at least some of the banned accounts belong to the same violators – and they do not include temporary board. “The page clearly states these numbers are 영구 이용 정지 (translated from Korean as permanently banned).”

These bans have been steadily decreasing over the past 6 months, and the latest ban week dropped below 100,000 for the first time in nearly a year. But as sjk045 points out, this doesn’t confirm PUBG Corp’s effectiveness in its anti-hacking efforts as PUBG’s player count has dropped significantly, from an average daily play count of nearly 1.6 million (and peaking at 3.2 million). ) in January to 535,000 (peak 1.1 million) in the past 30 days.

According to PCgamer