{"id":4445,"date":"2018-01-02T08:19:28","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T16:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/?p=4445"},"modified":"2018-01-02T08:19:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T16:19:28","slug":"playerunknowns-battlegrounds-hits-new-concurrent-player-record-doesnt-even-know-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/?p=4445","title":{"rendered":"PlayerUnknown\u2019s Battlegrounds hits new concurrent-player record, doesn\u2019t even know how to quit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like just a few months ago we were talking about\u00a0<em>PlayerUnknown\u2019s Battlegrounds<\/em>\u00a0struggling to surpass the seeming unstoppable, untoppable\u00a0<em>Dota 2<\/em>\u00a0on Steam for concurrent player count. Even though we knew it was huge, it\u2019s still a bit wild to look at the numbers now.\u00a0<em>PUBG<\/em>\u00a0isn\u2019t just passing\u00a0<em>Dota 2<\/em>, it\u2019s destroying it \u2013 the game surpassed 3 million current players on Steam just in time for 2018.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/PLAYERUNKNOWN\/status\/946790596936581120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/p>\n<p><em>PUBG<\/em>\u00a0hit 1 million concurrent users back in September, and 2 million in October. The game is growing quickly and shows no signs of slowing down. Creator Brendan Greene thinks the game could hit 100 million players\u00a0 before its done growing, which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/pubg-passes-3-million-concurrent-users-on-pc\/1100-6455835\/\"><em>GameSpot\u00a0<\/em>notes<\/a>\u00a0would put it at\u00a0<em>League of Legends<\/em>\u00a0levels of success.<\/p>\n<p>Over on the Xbox side, the game is still troubled by framerate issues, but it\u2019s also in Microsoft\u2019s Xbox Game Preview program. On the PC side, the game recently jumped from Early Access into full release as it hit its 1.0 release last month. The console version saw 1 million copies sold in just 2 days.<\/p>\n<p>Wherever you end up playing\u00a0<em>PUBG<\/em>, you\u2019re not going to have any trouble finding\u00a0 a game to hop into.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like just a few months ago we were talking about\u00a0PlayerUnknown\u2019s Battlegrounds\u00a0struggling to surpass the seeming unstoppable, untoppable\u00a0Dota 2\u00a0on Steam for concurrent player count. Even though we knew it was huge, it\u2019s still a bit wild to look at the numbers now.\u00a0PUBG\u00a0isn\u2019t just passing\u00a0Dota 2, it\u2019s destroying it \u2013 the game surpassed 3 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}