Created by Krafton, PUBG: Battlegrounds continues to stay at the top of the mobile games list.
PUBG Mobile, which has become an icon in the mobile gaming world, does not compromise its popularity even though it experiences periodic declines. Especially during the pandemic period, Krafton, the creator of the game, announced the earnings balance sheet for the first half of 2022.
Krafton: “PUBG gets more than 80 thousand new users a day”
Krafton officially made PUBG, one of the world’s most popular games: Battlegrounds officially became free on January 12, 2022. The company stated that this decision had a positive result. The company announced that the game has gained over 20 percent on all platforms.
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Krafton states that the game has reached more people since the day it became free. So much so that the company stated that it gained more than 80 thousand new users a day during the free period. In the report where the earnings table was announced, the following statements were made on the subject.
PUBG: Battlegrounds recently celebrated its fifth anniversary. The game, which switched to a free-to-play business model in January 2022, saw a stable entry with more than 80 thousand new users per day. Accordingly, average revenue per user increased by more than 20 percent across all platforms. International markets (outside South Korea) accounted for 94 percent of game revenue in the second quarter of 2022.
According to the company, PUBG: Battlegrounds currently ranks second in global mobile game sales. Following this situation, Krafton increased its mobile business revenue to $550.7 million. In November of last year, the company launched a new version of the game, PUBG: New State in November last year.
