PUBG player count halved in 2018

The number of PUBG players is decreasing at a very fast rate.

PUBG, full name PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS, is a game of the Battle Royale genre in which 100 players must confront each other (individually, or in pairs, groups of up to four) to determine who is the enemy. last survivor. In the match, they have to find their own weapons and other accessories on the map, and have to race against time to avoid the shrinking circle of blood loss.

The game took the world by storm in 2017 and peaked at 3,200,000 concurrent players in January of this year, according to data from SteamCharts. However, this May, SteamCharts recorded a peak player count of only 2,175,704 players.

The stats look even worse when taking the average number of online players instead of the highest. The average player count in January, when PUBG was most popular, reached 1,584,887. For this month, the average is just 879,429 – a drop of more than 43%.

At the time of writing, the peak in the past 24 hours was only 1,474,111 players, down more than half from the first month of the year. So, what caused PUBG players to drop?

Fortnite

While the two games have many differences, Fortnite’s influence cannot be denied. This game has created a new wind in the world, broke many stream records, attracted more attention than famous esports, and received impressive investment. 10 days ago, Epic Games also announced that it would invest $100 million for Fortnite’s first year of competition, a figure quickly topping global newspapers.

As PUBG’s biggest rival in the Battle Royale genre, it seems that Fortnite’s success has caused PUBG Corp to take a hit and slow down.

Update delay

#Esportsready is a meme that’s been dogging PUBG for months, and it’s used to reflect the game’s physical engine bugs as well as network issues. PUBG is clearly geared towards more serious gamers, but the existence of game bugs and slow updates have reduced its ability to attract players.

However, PUBG Corp. showed that they still did not surrender to the opponent. With the presence of a new map with a faster tempo than the Sanhok map (with Southeast Asian style), and a $2 million tournament – ​​PUBG Global Invitational 2018 – the company is trying everything to attract old fans and fans. new to build PUBG server back to its heyday.

Can PUBG regain its throne, recover lost players and take the game to new heights? Only time can tell.