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‘PUBG’ sets New Record with 3 Million Concurrent Players

Name: ‘PUBG’ sets New Record with 3 Million Concurrent Players
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Heland Ortega December 30, 2017 · 1 min read

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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds or PUBG, the survival shooter multiplayer online battle royale game that has emerged as the most popular PC game of the year, has just beaten its own record for most concurrent players. According to Valve’s game-selling platform, the game shattered its previous concurrent players record by twice its number, peaking at 3,106,358 on December 29, 2017.

OVER 3 MILLION!! Thank you all for helping us reach this amazing milestone! GG WP everybody <3 pic.twitter.com/twUQkSkP5U

— PLAYERUNKNOWN (@PLAYERUNKNOWN) December 29, 2017

According to developer PUBG Corp., the game has 30 million players across both PC and the newly released Xbox One version. By comparison, second place DotA 2 only had 700,000 concurrent users and had a maximum of 1.29 million players at one time.

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Heland Ortega

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This article was written by Heland Ortega, Junior Contributor of YugaTech. He is a graduate of Information Technology and Multimedia Arts at FEU Institute of Technology in where he is also now working as a full-time faculty. You can follow him at @helandortega.

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