For the first time, PUBG is on sale on Steam

PC Gamer
Jun 19, 2018

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has been $30 on Steam since its Early Access release in March of 2017. It didn't participate in any seasonal Steam sales, or run special promotions of its own. It never needed to, having sold millions of copies in just over a year, but now for the first time ever, PUBG is 33 percent off on Steam, bringing it to $20 (or £18.08).

In the sale announcement post, PUBG Corp says that the game's combined Xbox and PC sales now total "over 50 million units worldwide." Include mobile players, and "over 87 million people play PUBG every day," it added. 

The promotion lasts until July 5, and coincides with Friday's big patch, which will add the new 4 km x 4 km Sanhok map and a Sanhok-exclusive gun, the QBZ95 assault rifle, which replaces the SCAR-L on that map. The update is currently live on the test server, where Sanhok is accessible through the Mini Royale playlist. The other two maps, Erangel and Miramar, are grouped into the standard Battle Royale playlist.

The update also includes bug fixes, UI changes, performance adjustments, and a couple gameplay updates. Accuracy modifiers will no longer be instantaneous, meaning that you must complete an action like aiming down sights before you get the full accuracy benefit. Additionally, winners will now get several seconds to celebrate their chicken dinners before the game ends.

The Sanhok update will graduate from the test server this week, on June 22. You can read the full patch notes here.

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Amogus Jun 21, 2018 @ 8:19am 
Sad that they can lie now and get away with it with the addition of being able to hide steam games on your profile. Now websites that track steam game information can no longer accurately track the amount of people who own the game and how many people open the game every 2 weeks because all it can track is player count based on the community page.
Amogus Jun 21, 2018 @ 8:17am 
So only 50 million copies have been sold, yet 87 million players play daily? What a load of crap.
The Sleight Jun 20, 2018 @ 3:21am 
cheat ruining this game hard and its rating is dropping so sale is here but nothing help until they fix their anti-cheat
starlord56218 Jun 19, 2018 @ 11:52pm 
if it would be for free, it would still be too expensive.....
cheats, bugs n lag cost you a hell of a lot of patience playing this hyped trash game
Deadly Chicken XoP' Jun 19, 2018 @ 8:08pm 
why did you whinge about splitting the community with map selection and then made MINI ROYALE ffs.

Just get rid of map selection completely and have the new map have a higher drop rate like you did when mirimar came out.

You literally started bleeding players when you gave them map selection because it killed a lot of the queues.
Sanyavok Jun 19, 2018 @ 6:42pm 
they are wasting so much money on literally everything except improving the game... I guess the code is so shit and deep they cant even change a single thing in this mess because they might fuck up something like they do with every update... even with events lol
Recker Jun 19, 2018 @ 5:56pm 
what you need money so bad for your lawsuit against fortnight cause your jelly that their kickin your ass's?
GameMaster777 Jun 19, 2018 @ 4:03pm 
luckily, i'm not falling into this money trap...
†Major_Pain™ Jun 19, 2018 @ 2:11pm 
87 million players with 80 million cheaters and poor game optimization performance. still no Game Optimization Performance update with no changes.
󠀡󠀡᠌Hollow2k ⁧⁧⁧222 Jun 19, 2018 @ 1:14pm 
@♥Shiraume♥ Developers will always know that, it's their game you know...