PUBG and the Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs

January of this year saw PUBG Corp’s eponymous battle royale shooter achieve its highest player count ever, hitting over 3.2 million concurrent players — more players in a single game at the same time than any game ever on Steam. Six months later, PUBG has lost nearly 60% of its player base, now sitting at around 1.2 million concurrent players. So what happened? Sure, we can blame the unfathomable success of Fortnite for some of the diversion of players, but the mass exodus of established, financially invested players in such a short amount of time tells us less about how PUBG Corp failed to hold onto their players, and more about how they drove them away. This was the game that couldn’t stop, amassing over 50 million purchases on Steam alone, and continued to grow in popularity throughout 2017. This was the goose that laid the golden eggs — until they killed it.

[GUTZnPAPERCUTZ]

I think I'm safe to say that as an day one Xbox PUBG player, we have had the short end of the stick. It's the End of July 2018, almost 1-1/2 years since it's Xbox debut and we don't even have a final Code (V1.0)!

I play now on an X1X and while it is finally a stable 30fps vs the 12-18fps on OG X1 when it debuted, and it looks crisp @ native 2160p with HDR, it is still no flawless game. I have NEVER played a game so un-optimized for the longest time and riddled with bugs as this game is.

Having said that, I do finally feel like PUBG Corp is moving full steam ahead and finally familiarizing it'self with it's newly built team/studio. We have had a lot of recent updates and the window from PC added features are making it's way to Xbox faster than 6 months ago. We have V1.0 coming along with Sanhok and Analog Controls (not just PC ported game pad controls)

The game is a mess, but I have had the most intense and engaging moments I have ever had in an FPS with PUBG and it has a characteristic about itself that makes it like no other BR game. I paid $30 for this game on X1 and after 2,000 matches played I still look forward to dumping another 1,000 in Sanhok when it releases as the game for me just keeps getting better and better! :)

[OC_MurphysLaw]

I too have put in a lot of time in the Xbox version and do agree.... she aint the prettiest one at the dance but I do so enjoy dancing with her. One point of clarification though... you said its been almost 1-1/2 years since it hit Xbox. Technically the game launched on Xbox December 12th. So really its been in Game Preview on Xbox for just about 8 months come August 12th. It was in Steam early access for approximately 9 months before they did the V1.0 release Dec. 20th for Steam (launched March 2017 in Steam Early Access). So, I am going to guess it goes full version sometime between August & September with the Sanhok map release for Xbox as they seem to be on a similar timeline path to that of PC in many ways. And....I will be there to play more for better or worse. ;)