If the rate at which BattleEye is banning people continues to increase through February, you can expect close to four million players to have been banned by the end of this month. JanuaryвЂ™s figure put the total banned, according to BattleEyeвЂ™s own self-reported figures, at over 2.5 million. In January alone, anti-cheat provider BattleEye banned more than a million players, or roughly one player ever 2.56 seconds. The amount of cheating in Battlegrounds is nearly as remarkable as its skyrocketing sales figures. could be driving a certain portion of their playerbase away on purpose. That game isnвЂ™t on Steam, so thereвЂ™s no apples-to-apples way to make a comparison. Maybe competing products, like the free-to-play battle royale-style mode in Epic GamesвЂ™ Fortnite is luring people away. Maybe the influx of newer users, excited by the 1.0 version and the attention itвЂ™s been receiving in the press and on social media, have drifted away. Well, itвЂ™s possible people are growing tired of the game. SteamCharts puts the peak at 3,140,580 and yesterdayвЂ™s numbers closer to 2.15 million, but theyвЂ™re going in the same direction. Figures differ between platforms, of course. As of yesterday the peak was only 2,177,418. SteamDBД«attlegrounds reached its peak for concurrent players in mid-January when, according to SteamDB, 3,257,248 players showed up to chase each other around. You can see it illustrated best at SteamDB which, again, draws from SteamвЂ™s own data set. SteamChartsД«ut thereвЂ™s one chart in particular that is giving analysts pause, and thatвЂ™s the peak concurrent number of players that log in to play the game every day.

The game is a global success, with more than 1.1 billion hours played.

Many people are either at work or at school, and there are still more than 1.6 million people playing Battlegrounds.

ItвЂ™s mid-morning here on a Thursday in the United States. According to SteamCharts, which is also fed by SteamвЂ™s own data, it blew past Dota 2 in August and never looked back. SteamSpyДЇurthermore, the game continues to occupy the top slot as the most-played game on Steam. The number of accounts which own PlayerUnknownвЂ™s Battlegrounds as collated by SteamSpy from SteamвЂ™s own raw data set. So, all things considered, Battlegrounds isnвЂ™t doing too shabby, considering that its sales have yet to show signs of a plateau. PUBG isnвЂ™t even a year old yet, and the game only launched its 1.0 version on Dec. The 30 million copies sold number - which doesnвЂ™t include sales on Xbox One - is remarkable considering that the game was launched into Steam Early Access on March 23, 2017. So where are the players going? And what does this mean for the gameвЂ™s future?ДЇirst, letвЂ™s step back and get some perspective. PlayerUnknownвЂ™s Battlegrounds, the smash hit multiplayer survival game, has sold more than 30 million copies on PC, according to SteamSpy, which tracks public data to extrapolate sales and ownership information for Steam games.Д«ut data provided by SteamвЂ™s own API seems to indicate that the number of active players has sharply decreased.

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