PUBG Reaches 3 Million Simultaneous Players and Has Banned 1.5 Million Users

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds this phenomenal multiplayer game of 2021 broke its record for concurrent players, this morning Battlegrounds penetrated 3 million players. Exactly 3,106,358 according to Steam.

To compare with the current second place game, Dota 2, it only has a record high of 1.29 million concurrent players. It was down around 700,000 at the time this post was shared.

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Battlegrounds’ has skyrocketed, to say the least. Games launched last March and has quickly become the most-watched game on Twitch. But it didn’t hit 1 million concurrent players until September. The move to China, as well as the release of version 1.0, has been a record high. Just take a look at the data below, shared by SteamSpy.

This is also a good time to take a look at the top 10 games on Steam, as a kind of snapshot of the PC gaming industry. Other titles alongside Battlegrounds include perennial favorites like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2, but also Warframe, which started to rise from obscurity and is now free-to-play on PC. Also up there is Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege ranking, which has overcame an underwhelming launch and is under review.

After setting a record with concurrent players, on the other hand pubg also made another record that is more worrying: by having banned more than 1.5 million users. Cheaters have been a problem for a long time in PUBG and don’t seem to be getting any better. I admit, I didn’t see a lot of hackers in the game, but I did see a lot of other players share cheat videos that run faster than you normally can run.

Update on the number of PUBG bans: 1,500,000.
— BattlEye (@TheBattlEye) December 28, 2021

The development team promised to do more to combat hacking back in November, saying it was rolling out a new method to catch cheaters. We hope that the process will be accelerated so that players can play comfortably.