10 Interesting PUBG Facts That Will Surprise You

Battle royale games are currently in vogue. A number of developer and game manufacturers are vying to produce battle royale games and their versions. One game that is currently popular is Player Unknown’s Battleground (PUBG).

This game made by PUBG Corporation and Bluehole is entering a period of Steam Early Access in March 2021 and then officially released on December 20, 2021. It didn’t take long until January 2021, showing that PUBG has been played by more than 3 million players simultaneously from all over the world including Indonesia. Because of its popularity, major fps game franchises such as Battlefield and Call of Duty also follow the battle royale mode in their latest game series.

At the end of this year PUBG is finally available on various platforms such as Windows PC, Android, iOS, Xbox One, and the awaited PS4 is available. It was also reported that this game made it into the biggest selling game of all time, selling 50 million copies on all platforms worldwide.

Behind the success that no longer needs to be asked, PUBG turns out to store various very interesting facts for you to know. The following are facts that may not be known.

1. The Origin of “Winner Winner Chicken Dinner”

If you are a PUBG player or have certainly heard of the word Chicken Dinner, you may be curious what it means. After completing the game in PUBG, a statistics screen will appear showing the performance in the first game. If you manage to survive until the last match, the sentence “Winner Winner Chicken Dinner” will appear.

Quoted from Deadspin, this sentence was inspired by the Great Depression in the 1920s and 1930s, which was a time when there was a lot of gambling. If someone wins consecutive bets and can buy chicken for dinner, that person will be cheered “Winner Winner Chicken Dinner”. So that’s where the word Greene took to be used as a sentence in mod hers.

2. Not a pioneer of the Battle Royale genre

Mod in game Arma and DayZ designed by Greene is called Battle Royale which is inspired by the 2000 Japanese film, entitled Battle Royale. The film is actually also adapted from a novel written by Koushun Takami.

In the film and book, titled Battle Royale, it tells the story of a group of teenagers in a village handed down by the Japanese Government, the teenagers are forced to fight to the death to control the country’s population.

Even though it was PUBG that caused the battle royale genre to be more well known to everyone, but actually mod in Arma and DayZ are the pioneers of the genre Battle Royale.

3. PUBG is made by photographer

The creator of PUBG, namely Brendan Greene, originally before entering the world of game development was a photographer and graphic designer. With his design skills he began to enter the world of games.

Initially he co-developed popular games such as mod DayZ and Arma then Greene received an offer from Sony Online Entertainment for consultation on development H1Z1: King of the Kill. Starting from there, Greene gained knowledge and started trying to develop games battle royale her name is PUBG.

4. Number of Players Affected by Ban

In a video game of any genre and no matter how strong the defense is, there must be loopholes that cheaters can use to cheat, especially as a game as popular as PUBG definitely attracts a lot of cheaters to make cheats for their enjoyment.

Player bans are usually done by game makers. This can be caused by players cheating while playing. Finally, PUBG kept its promise to eradicate cheaters by creating an anti-cheat software from BattlEye that allows players to report other players if they are proven to have cheated.

BattlEye says that over 1.5 million accounts were banned in 2021. In January 2021 alone, more than 1 million accounts were banned. Not only that, PUBG also tracked people who developed cheat software for PUBG and succeeded on April 30, 2021 yesterday 15 Chinese Cheaters were Successfully Arrested.

5. It was crowded because of the loot box

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The name is a popular game, there must be controversy that occurs and grabs the attention of loyal players. Like the following controversy that the author managed to quote from Polygon, Initially Greene repeatedly said that PUBG would not include microtransactions until it left Early Access in July 2021.

In fact, PUBG Corporation added a loot box in July 2021 that can only be unlocked with a key. Loot boxes can be found easily in the middle of the game, but the key must be obtained by purchasing using the players’ real money.

This decision made PUBG players angry and furious. Even though Greene apologized as she had written on the page Steam and was about to report this to PUBG Corporation, but it turns out that PUBG Corporation has maintained their original decision without eliminating in-game microtransactions.

6. Breaking New Records in Steam history

Previously, for years the game with an unbeaten record was held by Dota 2 with concurrent players which was always stable at 864,939 concurrent players every day. But the arrival of PUBG immediately shifted Dota 2 with a very impressive number of concurrent players many times over from Dota 2, namely with 3 Million Simultaneous Players every day when it was January 2021.

7. PlayerUnknown’s real name is Brendan Greene

So if you think the name of the game PUBG Initially, PlayerUnknown didn’t mean that it was wrong, PlayerUnknown was Brendan Greene’s nickname which he used when making various game mods. DayZ and ARMA 2. Then when DayZ started to stand on its own, Greene decided to take the exact same concept and create it mod for ARMA 3 games.

Brendan Greene admitted that in making the mod he did not take any profit, precisely because the concept of the mod he made became famous. In this case, we can look at the H1Z1 game which uses Greene’s idea by creating a battle royale genre game called H1Z1 King of The Kill, which is currently changing and making it simpler with the name H1Z1 only.

8. The Designer Wasn’t A Gamer

It turns out that another interesting fact is that the designer, Greene, was not a gamer until one day he discovered the game DayZ. According to Greene, he only plays the game occasionally, not often. He will also still like a variety of fun games even though the game does not have a storyline. Or in other words, he got a good game that can do anything in the game regardless of the storyline.

9. 14 Million More Players Fight Every Day for Chicken Dinner

PUBG Mobile was released on March 19, 2021 and 4 months after that, on August 17, 2021, the developers of PUBG Corp and also Tencent announced that PUBG Mobile has broken a new record because it has been downloaded more than 100 million times and is played by 14 million players every day from all over the world.

But that’s a count of Mobile, yes Android and iOS, when combined with other platforms, of course the numbers are very large, but there is no official news other than the above.

10. The Country with the Most Players, Indonesia, you know

Currently, various players from 200 countries play the PUBG Mobile game, and it turns out that the number of PUBG Mobile players from Indonesia is included in the top three positions, beating various countries. And Indonesia accompanies countries such as the United States and India. Should you be proud or what do you think?

Those are ten interesting facts about PUBG. What do you think? Interesting isn’t it, and surely you will know a lot after reading the facts above. For PUBG players, play without cheating. In addition, do not forget to rest between playing so as not to interfere with health.