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PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) sells [16] million copies
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Pretty sure Bluehole was an already existing company that brought PU on as a creative director for this, no?
Because the map is so large, it would get really boring after you kill everyone in your immediate vicinity. The purpose of the circle is to funnel everyone into a smaller play area. Anyone outside of the circle will take damage over time. This forces the remaining players into ever smaller areas of the map, until just one player/team is left.
No ghosts, no spotlights, no disappearing loot, no disappearing outside of circles.
anothertech
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But can it outsell the fidget spinners?
Blam
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It's right now Bluehole owns PUBG Corp (subsidiary).
So no it's not gonna be bought out and if it is Bluehole is being bought.
The circle is basically a safe zone. If you're outside of it you take damage. The longer the game goes on the smaller the circle gets and the more damage you take from being outside the circle. It doesn't really impair your vision, although there is an electrical visual effect. When it first appears you get 5 minutes or so to run to it, or use a vehicle to drive in.
Holy fuck! I made a prediction a few months back when PUBG had hit ~7 million or so that it might do 15 million sales lifetime, not in the next few months...insane.
If it was priced at $50 a lot less people would have jumped on board to begin with. The price was part of what made me say "OK I'll give this Early Access game a shot, it looks pretty janky but it's only $30", even though I'd never played nor had interest in a Battle Royale-style game ever before. 500+ hours later...
If it was priced at $50 a lot less people would have jumped on board to begin with. The price was part of what made me say "OK I'll give this Early Access game a shot, it looks pretty janky but it's only $30", even though I'd never played nor had interest in a Battle Royale-style game ever before. 500+ hours later...
The accessible middleground between ARMA's intense tactical combat and Battlefield's hectic casual fun
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more like early December. we are still in the 7 to 9 days a million range.
Crimsonclaw111
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Psycho_Mantis
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Is this the first foreign game (to the Chinese domestic market) to go massive in China?
PrinnyBomb
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The game bored me and was the only time I've ever used steam refund, but congrats, glad to see a non-freemium game getting this much success
paperspace
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Probably already mentioned but it's likely due to a bug that has been defaulting everyone to the Asia server for the last few weeks. You need to explicitly change it every single match and it's really easy to forget or not even notice.
It is the most unique multiplayer experience of any game I have ever played and I started playing MP games in the 90's. FWIW I haven't played any Battle Royale mods or H1Z1 KOTH so PUBG is my first Battle Royale game.
Nah, that bug doesn't affect how Steamspy gathers and displays data.
The difference is because it's total owners of all time and total players of the last two weeks.
LoL is foreign made but now Chinese owned and many years back in mid 2000s, CS was huge in lancafe.
Of course not. Counter Strike was huge. WoW was huge. Dota has been pretty big. PUBG is even bigger though, just like it's bigger in other countries.
Hey Im Patrick
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Is it time for me to jump in as well?
I jumped in about a month ago. I've never had a game get my heart racing like this.
charlequin
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I think it'll make a difference, but a lot less of a percentage one than it would for a lot of games. I could imagine a free weekend turning into a ton of sales though.
I don't know why they would question it when the price was unquestionably part of its success.
It's not even close.
Just the best-selling non-Valve title ever, and 4th best overall.
$30 should be what day one prices should be. Theyre not though because theres plenty of people that will drop $60 without blinking.
prag16
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No game has ever provided the tension and rush you get when you're skulking around in the top 10, last circle or two, not sure where everyone is, trying to figure out what move to make.
Never experienced anything like it in a game.
SkateorDi3
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I put my time into the game. Just over 300 hours and it's lost its charm. Thanks to shitty hit detection, Chinese hackers, and high ping players from other countries, I've Uninstaller the game. I've played 6 games in the last two weeks. Each time leaving salty and unfulfilled. I like the game play, but the next developer to carbon copy the game with a better engine will have my attention.
Blam
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Yup
lvl99 Pixel
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game minimized a few times and wouldnt let me back in
no other game has done this
theres some weird stuff like if your vehicles tire is out sometimes the textures strobe in and out of visibility or the tiny slope in by field by pochinki causing you to come to a complete halt
is there a road map of what they're working on for this game?
no other game has done this
theres some weird stuff like if your vehicles tire is out sometimes the textures strobe in and out of visibility or the tiny slope in by field by pochinki causing you to come to a complete halt
is there a road map of what they're working on for this game?
Frozenprince
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200+ hours and still not a single chicken dinner in solo.
Gotta be doing something right to keep me engaged despite that lol, glad they keep hitting these milestones, 20M by Thanksgiving easy.
Gotta be doing something right to keep me engaged despite that lol, glad they keep hitting these milestones, 20M by Thanksgiving easy.
Huge Succeeded
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Imagine a 3D grid in your head next time you play. Always ALWAYS be aware of how visible you are in a given position. Imagine players surrounding you, and think to yourself, what's the route that will get me seen by as few of them as possible... where is there a divot in the ground that'll let me run in such a way that only my head is visible from X direction... Wherehere a rut on this mountain that I can rest in without fear... 3 feet of hillside can make all the difference but you gotta be using that 3D brain to know what's up. That's my secret, ever since the ARMA 2 days.
I don't think that's true.
Frozenprince
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Bruh I've played somewhere along the lines of 3K hours of ARMA lol. I just like, that squirrel part of my brain activates every top-10 and I go "FUCK IT" and do something stupid to die. I could have perfect positioning, doesn't matter.
Acidote
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It was really hard to grasp for a friend that you could be in the line of vision of an enemy while he could be out of yours.
prag16
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Playing FPP helps with this somewhat. No more cheesing the third person camera to peek people. I refuse to play 3rd person now. No need to help campers even more.
Liliana Eileen
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17m when?
OfTheOverflow
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Probably next week.
catotheyounger
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Staggering numbers. The cc numbers are going to be insane once the vaulting update hits and the new map drops. 4 million CC is a high number that PUBG can conceivably hit.
crabhammer
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I think the craziest thing to me is the fact that 99.4% of the people who bought the game have actually installed it and played it. That's gotta be really high for a steam game these days. I checked Infinite Warfare as an example and only 87% of buyers had played that.
Itachi87
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I wonder if that's accurate. I have the game in my library for months now but have not installed or played it
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