PUBG sells 30 million copies, but the number of players is decreasing

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds just hit a new sales milestone, with over 30 million copies sold.

However, while PUBG’s sales continue to grow (30 million, according to Steam Spy), player numbers are dwindling. According to a report last week by vg247, the game has started to reduce the number of concurrent players.

The number is down just 2% from 30 days ago, but now it’s down 5%, according to Steam Charts.

To better understand how these numbers affect gameplay, let’s take a look at the chart from SteamDB. In mid-January, PUBG reached a record number of players, 3,527 million.

Since then, the decline has begun and the numbers have continued to go down. There was also a time when PUBG increased, but it still couldn’t achieve the same achievements as before, and it seems that this decline is even more severe.

Bloomberg reporter Yuji Nakamura pointed out this drop on Twitter and said that the developer Bluehole is still not really serious about hacking.

PUBG hit 30m in sales this week, but it is churning hard. Bluehole still not taking cheaters seriously enough imo pic.twitter.com/Iqjz8BPzVE

— Yuji Nakamura (@ynakamura56) February 14, 2018

As for its part, Bluehole (or PUBG Corp.) has just applied a new anti-cheat system, and the team is now determined to research and ban hackers. The developer promises to update this information soon in PUBG development roadmap at the beginning of this 2018.

While these declining numbers are true, we should still remember that PUBG is still the most played game on Steam. Even on its least-played days, the game still has more total players than the top 10 games on Steam combined.