PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has been free-to-play for nearly two weeks now and the swap seems to have paid off in a giant approach.According to PUBG's mother or father firm Krafton (through GameSpot), the sport has loved a 486% enhance in new gamers this week. The firm provides that the participant depend on Steam peaked at 690,000 complete energetic gamers.The tutorials have been probably the most performed content material in the entire sport (clearly because of the large surge in new gamers), with the Taego and Erangel maps being the preferred ones.Krafton is celebrating the achievement by rewarding gamers with particular content material, so long as they play for a minimum of one hour between January 27 and January 30. Anyone who logs in earlier than February 17 can even obtain the brand new Orbital Vanguard skins.
Why not play? It's free
(Image credit score: PUBG Battlegrounds)There have been already indicators that adopting a free-to-play mannequin was useful to PUBG from the beginning. The variety of concurrent gamers doubled following the change and whereas some gamers who paid full value for the sport initially took situation, those self same gamers have been supplied computerized entry to Battlegrounds Plus.As for why it has been so profitable, properly, the plain reply is that it's now free. Players are much more prepared to present the sport a attempt to see in the event that they prefer it without having to drop $30.It additionally is smart since rival battle royale video games like Fortnite, Call of Duty: Warzone, and Apex Legends are all free-to-play as properly. Those video games have been merely made more attractive as a result of gamers by no means needed to spend cash simply to play them.PUBG is in no way the primary premium sport to modify to a free-to-play mannequin submit-launch and reap the advantages. Fortnite did the very same factor, adopting the mannequin as soon as the battle royale facet of the sport proved to be the preferred factor about it.While PUBG and Krafton are having fun with this newfound reputation, being free cannot be its solely benefit. They will nonetheless want to supply significant content material and a stable gameplay expertise to be able to preserve gamers, in any other case they may abandon it in favor of different free-to-play video games.
