PUBG was originally designed as a Personal Computer game. But as of today,
it developed to incorporate both console and mobile gaming. Its development was
everything but smooth. It was originally scheduled to launch by early 2017, but
only launched at the end of the year. The game was lacking testing, and was full
of bugs, which will come back and hurt the company later.
PUBG Downloads and playerbase
After its initial launch, PUBG went instantly viral in the gaming community. It
revolutionized the classic first-person shooting perspective that all shooting
games were adopting at the moment. Every named streamer at
twitch
would be playing PUBG, which fueled the spread of the game even further. After its initial launch,
it reached its astonishing peak of 3 million concurrent players online. However, the
constant presence of bugs, and lack of testing led to its eventual downfall. Later,
the company decided to switch strategy and invest their efforts in the mobile
gaming industry. surprinsingly, their efforts paid out, and they are now the
top-grossing battle royale shooting game in mobile gaming.
PUBG Development Timeline
The game went through a long testing phase in China, which eventually paid off. The game
had to change its name to 'Game for Peace' and many "violent" features had to be adapted. However,
these efforts were not wasted, as China represents PUBG's #1 playerbase.
PUBG also faced some relegations in India, where the game was banned for its violence.
PUBG is still working on adjusting game features to accomodate the Indian gaming community.
According to
wealthypersons.com
PUBG has reached a net worth of $5 billion in 2020. The mobile version alone
garnered over $1.5 Billion by 2019, and the game does not seem to decrease
in revenue by anytime soon. With this amount of money, it is hard to be put into
prospective. Hence, we chose to compare it with Michael Jordan's shoes company
(Air Jordan), which according to
sources
, has a net worth of $1.6 billion, which totally pales in comparison.
$5 Billion
PUBG Net Worth
$1.6 Billion
Air Jordan Net Worth
PUBG Mobile is universally played by both genders. The female to male gender ratio is about 4:6,
which suggests growth space for more active female audience. Already PUBG has tried to attract
female audience by offering a wide range of aestehtically pleasing clothing to purchase within the game
and had collaborated with popular idols to promote more advertising for PUBG.
To better explain what PUBG is, it is important to first explain what
Battle Royale games are in general.
This is the map of the island that each player is going to jump into.
Each player will have to loot for weapons and medicines, all before the playable
map starts to shorten, and players are forced to move to a more crowded area.
As a result, it is essential to understand which locations have more resources,
so you can use these resources to survive and kill the rest of the participants.
You also have to be careful avoiding places with too many resources, as they will
be filled with other people, which will kill you before you can even explore the
island.
PUBG has a great variety of guns for players to choose, from pistols and SMGs, to assault rifles and sniper rifles.
These weapons vary in their availability, shooting range, and damage per bullet.
It could be very confusing for beginners to think about which two guns they should equip.
To make it simpler for beginners, here are top ten guns players often used to kill
and the average shooting distance of these 10 guns according to data from an incredibly detailed gaming website Gosu.
Choosing where to parachute onto is also a very strategic move.
Resources such as vests, helmets, backpacks, throwables, and weapons
are by no means evenly distributed across the map. Some places have high resources,
where many players would choose, yet too many players means there bound to be savage battles on landing.
Places that have less resources could be safe at first, but the safe zone would gradually reduce to the central area,
without transportation vehicles, players might not have the time to flee the dead zone.
On the left is a vivid illustration of these difficult choices.
There are so many other aspects of the game that we could not
include in this brief introduction, so we provided some gameplay
to give you a hunch on how fun the game is!
