Bluehole Studio has finally released PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds to the public. The game today left its Early Access phase and is fully available for purchase, featuring two big maps.
Moreover, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds CEO, CH Kim, revealed today that the game has already surpassed 30 million players on all platforms (Xbox One and PC).
“2017 has been a phenomenal year for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. With over 30 million players globally across PC platforms and the Xbox Game Preview program, we owe the success we’ve experienced this year to the community, whose passion has inspired all of us here at PUBG Corp. to make the very best game we can. We’ll continue to fine tune the Battle Royale experience and will introduce additional in-game content, including new crates, to become available in early 2018.”
In order to celebrate the release of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds on the PC, Bluehole is offering a new free in-game Winner Winner Chicken Dinner tshirt to everyone who boots up PUBG in the next few weeks.
Bluehole has implemented two waves of adjustments to deal with server stability issues since PC 1.0 test build #3 hit its test servers that reduced around 50% of the game’s stability issues. Furthermore, the team has implemented various performance and optimization tweaks.
Stay tuned for our PC Performance Analysis that will, hopefully, go live this weekend!
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Why is this sh*t so popular?
Because its new and lots of popular streamers play it.
oh trust me I know about the streamers, still unjustifiable imo :/
Its not new, its same content just remastered for the brainwashed players who play it lol
The game is still new. It was only in put on steam in August or September, I think.
Even then, it was unfinished. Now its officially released. From what I’m hearing its running better now than even a week or two ago on PC.
Right? It’s janky, ugly, unoptimized, and is basically the same thing over and over and over.
I don’t have a clue. A real life friend gifted it to me on Steam so it would have been rude to refuse it. So I installed it, played for 15 minutes and uninstalled it.
I don’t know? I don’t play it or own it or want to play it.
Maybe if you love SP games you just don’t care(like my self), what do the MP guys think of it?
LOL it sort of reminds me of the Pokémon GO craze, everyone had to play it…. well I didn’t but you know what I mean.
I think PUBG to some players is kind of like a hipster’s version of an old-fashioned night out. Just something fun to do with your buddies. I personally don’t own it but according to some streamers cheaters in it are a real pain-in-the-neck.
My take is, it’s what CS was 17 years ago for us. But back then it was pretty much the only thing you could play at an internet cafe’.
Ah nice I like this the best, probably the best response as to why people like it so much.
Makes sense.
You know guys, I refused to buy it until I finally was able to get it for around $20.
SO.
I didn’t believe the hype, I also thought people playing it were stupid and had no idea what a good game was, why the hell are so many people playing etc?
Hell, I couldn’t stand seeing DOTA2 and CSGO at the top of Steam charts because I tried both and thought they sucked. {just not my type of games}(CS isn’t bad, just the people)
AND THEN.
I played my first match.
I had no idea what I was doing.
I just saw 100 other people yelling at each other and we suddenly were all in a plane and then tons of them jumped out so I JUMPED!
ZOOMING through the sky to the ground while looking for a building.
I landed hard, ran butt naked into a warehouse, found a shotgun, loaded it.
Heard footsteps, hugged the wall, some guy ran into MY warehouse, and I Fing blew his head off!
And then the hunger set in!
I started hunting, listening for my prey, waiting, time slowing down, breathing in sync with my steps as I crept from building to building one by one searching for the pitter patter of bare feet on the ground, just to strike when they turn the corner or open a door not knowing the monster lurking within.
My hand twitches at the thought of having nothing and taking everything away from someone else in the first few minutes.
YEAH PUBG YOU GOT ME.
All I care about is snuffing someone’s life out in the first few minutes.
The smirk on my face knowing they have to exit and relaunch is all the satisfaction I crave. Getting to the end isn’t nearly as important as ending someone early on.
The rush is profound and repetitively addicting.
TLDR 40 hours in the first week. Adrenaline spikes randomly. Paranoia. Cold sweats at night from not playing. Yeah, this game is a drug and I’m hooked!
ads are getting smarter. *Kidding*
You should write a book, apparently you’ve got a nag for this sort of thing my man. Good Read!
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Thanks man.
I didn’t read the IGN thing. I’ll look when I get home. But I did describe the way it went down and how I felt. Intense to say the least. Much appreciated. Happy holidays.
Yeah man, you too, take it easy!
Played a match this morning. Works perfectly!
Can you confirm that they actually optimized it for 1.0? From what I’m hearing its running much better across the board on PC hardware.
I wouldn’t really be the best at reviewing that part of it as it’s always ran very well in the 20 hours of it I must have played. Like all games I’m sure I’ve ran across a weird thing or something, but mostly if anything negative did exist for me, it wasn’t noticeable to me. My computer is pretty high-end also, so there’s that.
I just had a few good games earlier. Just now I was playing for about an hour or so and I’m sure this is a REALLY heavy traffic time.. kids got outta school, people off work, new map and features. So the lag was pretty bad for the first couple of minutes on the map, every round. Got to be fine, but rubber-banding big time for a little bit after you land.
The new map looks gorgeous btw.
Meanwhile on the most powerful console in the world, it can run at 13fps or less. Star Citizen in alpha as an unfinished game runs better. Looks like Microsoft’s crack team of uber devs havn’t turned up yet.
That video from Digital Foundry was hilarious. They’ve recently done another video showing the update but it still runs as low as 7fps on Xbone X. Next-gen tho!
I will, thank you! Crappy hardware and “crappy developers”. Enjoy your new weak sauce console. Much Next-Gen!
yah but 60% of those are Chinese players.
I hope they optimized it, it runs like garbage on anything but the highest end PC’s right now. on Xbox, it’s literally a PowerPoint presentation.
Big optimizations with 1.0. Log in and try it out.
30mil people bought this for multiplayer, you’re minority, no one likes single player games.
“No one likes single player games” – random 14 years old.
lol
Played it for 30 minutes,bored me asked for refund and got refunded.
Cant understand the craze around this game.
I loved dayz more back when it was still just just a mod for arma 2.
This is what people are playing now…
Well, big ups to the developer for their massive success.