Let's discuss PUBG's ability to survive. Although PUBG is considered to pave the way for the booming growth of survival games, PUB...
Let's discuss PUBG's ability to survive.
Although PUBG is considered to pave the way for the booming growth of survival games, PUBG has now fallen so much that many people have to ask the question, is it still capable of surviving in time? come or not.
Undeniably the birth of PUBG has completely changed the concept of gamers. Instead of competing in regular shooter games, the definition of survivor has finally become familiar to all since PUBG debuted. Immediately, this game quickly became a blockbuster, taking away a lot of players of Overwatch CS: GO. But then over time, PUBG's collapse was also predicted, especially after Bluehole seemed to be powerless in upgrading content or taking measures to control the cheat hacking problem. However, since the release of the mobile version, it seems that this game is growing strongly. But the question arises, in a competitive market like today, whether PUBG can stand firm.
Due to the weaknesses and errors in their console versions, most PUBG players choose to experience it on the PC, and in fact, this game is also designed for PC gamers as the main. The game is only available on Steam, so if based on the data on this platform, we can also partly assess PUBG's situation.
And what is worrying has come to Bluehole, when from 2/2018 to 11/2018, the average number of players has dropped from 1.4 million to just 400,000 - equivalent to 70% of players' decline. In December and January this year, all things were better, when thanks to the effect of the new map Vikendi, the number of players had a period of over 500,000 mark. However, until 4/2019, the story began to deteriorate again, when this was the time when PUBG saw a record low player milestone since its launch, only about 390,000. During the past month, this number has not yet been rolled over 400,000 milestones.
On the surface, this decline may cause many people to worry. But the fact that 400,000 average players are still an impressive number. It is still the second most played game on Steam, just after DOTA 2. And if you consider PUBG to be a dead game, you should try it again, when GTA 5 is extremely popular right now, there are only middle players. average at 50,000.
PUBG's indicators are gloomy but still the dream of many other games
Many people believe that other rival games will make PUBG fade, but this has not come true. Fortnite is the most dangerous competitor, and it certainly has no less market share of Bluehole but clearly, the target that Fortnite is targeting is somewhat different from PUBG's style. Apex Legends is also considered a dangerous enemy, but Battlefield Firestorm was released in 3/2019 to be the most similar game to PUBG. And although it is better in graphics and image performance, it does not achieve the desired success. And this proves that PUBG still has a long time to die.
Fortnite is said to be PUBG's most dangerous enemy
The release of this game on PS5 in November 2020 may be a condition for PUBG to grow even more, as according to some leaked sources, Bluehoel has begun to research this plan.
Besides, in terms of eSports, PUBG is still doing very well on its part, which was proved when the National PUBG League (NPL) attracted tens of thousands of followers.
In summing up the above, PUBG can be seen far from being dead in the current situation.
