Chicken losing its lustre?
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds hit a whopping 30 million sales this week, but the game is seeing its daily active player base on PC decline.
Bloomberg tech reporter, Yuji Nakamura, shared the news on Twitter, suggesting that cheaters could be to blame for the drop. This is the most significant drop in players since the game’s launch, and has been dropping off since January.
PUBG has had an ongoing problem with cheaters, with one million banned in January alone, although the developers continue to work on anti-cheat measures.
It was only a couple of weeks ago that Fortnite beat PUBG’s concurrent PC player record by around 200,000 players.
Meanwhile, Tencent’s PUBG mobile games are now in early access in China and look to be pretty popular themselves, with over 75 million players pre-registered between them. The games topped the App charts in China as soon as they were available on February 9.
It’s possible to download them outside of your region, but as with any unfamiliar site, you do so at your own risk.
Shabana is a freelance writer who enjoys JRPGs, wine, and not finishing games. Follow her on Twitter.