The community of PUBG reaches the next milestone. At the same time, many cheaters are being banned from the battle royale fun.
Considering the milestones that the battle royale shooter PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has achieved in recent months, one can only take their hat off. PUBG has pushed aside all games in the “concurrent players” category on Steam, including such giants as CS: GO and DOTA 2.
PUBG was already at the top during early access and is the game with the most concurrent users of all time on Steam.
Now the successes continue. Even more players and, what is particularly important, even more banned cheaters.
3 million concurrent users in PUBG
In March 2017, PUBG was released in early access. In September, it reached the first major goal: Over one million players are playing the battle royale shooter simultaneously.
A month later, PUBG was able to double these numbers and increased to over two million concurrent players. Now the game was released in version 1.0, thus leaving early access and immediately set a new high score:
Over three million concurrent players in December.
It is clear that the player numbers are now growing more slowly. But where is the end? Can PUBG reach four million?
The peak of three million may be due to many players being on vacation. Then there is more time for gaming. Furthermore, PUBG seems to be extremely popular in China. How high the numbers will go, we will see in the future.
In the following overview, you can see how this number compares to other popular games such as Dota 2, CS: GO, or GTA 5 Online.
Players in, cheaters out
Cheating has been a major problem in PUBG for a long time. The developers are working hard on solutions to kick cheaters out of the game even faster and are developing mechanisms to detect cheater behavior early. This aims to nip potential damage in the bud.
The service that kicks cheaters out of PUBG is called BattlEye. They recently announced: 1.5 million cheaters have already been banned from PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds.
120 suspects arrested in China
Another impressive number from China. There, the Chinese giant Tencent acquired the rights to PUBG. Back then, they promised to take radical action against cheaters. Apparently, they take this seriously. Tencent is said to have excellent connections to the Chinese authorities.
Shortly after Tencent was awarded PUBG, a task force was established at the police in China. With the help of Tencent, the task force is said to have arrested 120 suspects in a short time. Among them are also developers of well-known PUBG cheat tools.
The majority of PUBG cheats come from China. Therefore, players wish for radical punishments, which the developers, however, do not want to implement “that way”. PlayerUnknown says you should report cheaters.
