On September 8, 2017, the royal battle of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) broke the mark of 1 million users who are in the game at the same time. Since that day, her online has never dropped below.
This is with reference to the SteamDB service, which tracks the activity of players on Steam, PCGamesN reports. According to him, there were no more games in the history of Steam that held such a number of simultaneous users for a whole year.
However, the situation may change soon. If we start from the graph below, the peak of the game’s success came in January, when online reached 3.2 million. Since then, this indicator has been steadily falling. And online for September 9, 2018, although more than 1 million, but less than the same for September 9, 2017.
Online PUBG on Steam since the release
The drop in PUBG’s performance can be explained both by the success of its ideological successor Fortnite Battle Royale, which, although released in September 2017, became a major phenomenon after the introduction of combat passes in December of the same year, and by the fact that Bluehole’s creation still lacks polishing.
Anyway, 1 million online is a gigantic figure. It is rare that a game manages to reach such a mark at least once. For example, GTA V, despite very high sales on Steam, did not reach 200 thousand online. The record of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is 850 thousand.
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