PUBG: Battlegrounds Has Grown By 80,000 Players Each Day Since Going Free-to-Play
Numerous meals of chicken have been awarded in the month of January.
In the wake of the announcement that PUBG: Battlegrounds officially going free-to-play on January 12, 2022. the parent firm Krafton has stated that it has seen a “steady inflow of more than 80,000 new users per day.”
The figures were revealed in Krafton’s earnings announcement for the first quarter of 2022 where it stated the fact that “average revenue per user (ARPU) across all platforms increased more than 20% QoQ.” It also revealed that markets outside of South Korea accounted for 94 percent of the revenue generated by PUBG in Q2 2022.
PUBG Mobile is also doing well for Krafton since it is currently “second in sales among global mobile games” and has helped increase the company’s mobile revenues up to $550.7 million.
This earnings release also addressed the upcoming games from Krafton such as Unknown World’s upcoming IP, which is set in a “sci-fi world that features imaginative turn-based gameplay,” Striking Distance Studios’ The Callisto Protocol, and an untitled game idea that is based on The Bird That Drinks Tears, a Korean fantasy novel The Bird That Drinks Tears.
We wrote about it in our analysis of the free-to-play edition of PUBG: Battlegrounds, we wrote that the game’s “unique emphasis on huge zones and realistic simulation is entertaining, even though its novelty was worn off a few years ago.
PUBG Mobile is also doing well for Krafton and is currently “second in sales among global mobile games” and has helped boost the company’s mobile revenues by $550.7 million.
In addition, the earnings report covered some of the games Krafton is planning to release including Unknown World’s brand new IP, which is set in a “sci-fi world that features imaginative turn-based gameplay,” Striking Distance Studios’ The Callisto Protocol, and an untitled game idea that is based on The Bird That Drinks Tears, a Korean fantasy novel The Bird That Drinks Tears.
In our analysis of the free-to-play edition of PUBG: Battlegrounds, we wrote that its “unique focus on massive zones and realistic simulation remains a lot of fun, even if its novelty wore off years ago.”
