PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Creator Says Game Could Hit 100 Million Players - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 07 September 2017 / 2,508 Views
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has been a huge success selling more than 10 million units since it released on March 23.
The creator of the game, Brendan Greene, has stated that the game could possibly reach the success of free-to-play MOBA game, League of Legends.
"Our sales curves are just going up," Greene told GameSpot. "They're not slowing down. I'm still waiting for that plateau, and it's just not happening yet. When you ask about growth on PC, I just look at League of Legends. 100 million active users a month, I think, something stupid like that? If we play our cards right, maybe we can get to that level of users."
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is currently available on Steam Early Access and will launch for the Xbox One as part of Xbox Game Preview in late 2017.
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League of legends is free to play d: so no. Not unless they switch to that. MineCraft is video game Legos that is very kid friendly, so that's also not comparable.
To reach that number, to reach those dizzy heights, it needs the console release. LoL helps that it's free and runs on pretty crap PCs so it's a game open to a lot of people. You need a decent graphics card to play this in minimum. Also means they would have sold 100million, which would make it the most successful game ever right?
Considering that 100m coies sold has only been achieved by the likes of Tetris and Minecraft, this is highly unlikely. Even sales monsters like GTA V and Wii Sports are around 80-90m sold.
