Alas, poor PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, we’ve entered the second phase of your musician biopic when the fans start leaving. Sure, the game was riding high in January with 3.2 million concurrent players on Steam. But we’re six months away from that now and the game is now down to 1.7 million concurrent players. These are clearly not numbers to scoff at, but they’re also easy to see as a sign that the game hits its peak and then has started turning downward.
What’s caused the drop? Lots of factors are obvious culprits, including the success (and free-to-play nature) of Fortnite and the simple decay of interest over time, but there’s no obvious magic bullet. Feel free to speculate about it whether you play or not. The game clearly isn’t about to die, but if you thought there was no upper limit on its playerbase, it looks like that’s been proven false.
Meanwhile, for the folks still going strong, the Sanhok map has dropped.
#Sanhok is now live! Drop into our new 4x4km map for faster, more intense action. See you at Bootcamp? 🌴https://t.co/leMaGo4U6j pic.twitter.com/YspxBE7EMh
— PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS (@PUBG) June 22, 2018
