PlayerUnknown’s BattleGrounds or known as PUBG is a game that is too familiar when surpassed many e-sport games in Steam like CS:GO and Dota2. Moreover, PUBG was the most favorite game in Korea, more than Overwatch and League of Legend in late 2017. However, this game considers being “dead” after two years on Steam.
According to Steam, in early 2018, PUBG had more than 3 million people were playing at a time. But after two years, PUBG only reaches 6 thousand players at peak time. To compare with other games like Dota2 and CS:GO, Dota2 has more than 6 thousand whereas CS:GO has 9 thousand, but the thing is both Dota2 and CS:GO has been published almost ten years (Dota2 – 2010, CS:GO- 2013) but they still attract more players than PUBG which publish in 2017. Moreover, there are more and more streamers, which is one of the most advertising element of a game and effect thinking of gaming community, stop playing or steaming PUBG. Also, some professional gaming company retires their PUBG team to focus more on developing other game.
So why was PUBG lost a lot of players like that? First, hack and cheat. There were so many hacker and cheater in middle and late 2018. In the shooting game, only one cheater can ruin all other experiences. I don’t know does the developer have any action on that, but it seems to be the same. Second, the developer ignores community opinion. There are several bugs on the game, but patch to patch, that bug remains still there despite more than 3gb update. Even there is no hack and cheat, the gaming experience is still be affected because of that. Moreover, form the beta till now, there is nothing new and unchanged about gameplay. We only the new expensive costumes. Third, competitors. After PUBG, many battle royale game has been released such as Fortnite, Apex Legend, Call of Duty,… which has better graphics, easier for new players …
If anyone asks me, does PUBG “dead”? My answer is, “Yes, it is totally dead by now.”
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