Zloth
I smell a... wumpus!?
So it seams Chinese folks like Playerunknown's Battlegrounds… rather a lot. A few MILLION players have shown up over the month of October to play it! In August, English was at 40.53%, Chinese at 16.64%, and Russian at 12.76%. Now Chinese is 56.37%, English is 21.24%, and Russian is 6.2%! It seems to have bumped the average PC up a bit, too (PUBG has higher requirements than Dota 2).
Right now, 2.5 million people are playing PUBG. The next three games combined (Dota 2, Counter-Strike, and Warframe) don't even make it to 1.5 million.
In short, this is a MASSIVE invasion! I don't think I've seen the like since World of Warcraft took off in Asia. So, what will it mean? Chinese players are waving a ton of money around - publishers are bound to notice.
P.S. Wayback has the old surveys at: https://web.archive.org/web/20170415000000*/http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/
Right now, 2.5 million people are playing PUBG. The next three games combined (Dota 2, Counter-Strike, and Warframe) don't even make it to 1.5 million.
In short, this is a MASSIVE invasion! I don't think I've seen the like since World of Warcraft took off in Asia. So, what will it mean? Chinese players are waving a ton of money around - publishers are bound to notice.
P.S. Wayback has the old surveys at: https://web.archive.org/web/20170415000000*/http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/