PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is a massive hit, accumulating more than 15.5 million sales. The immense popularity of the video game has also attracted a ton of cheaters and hackers. New reports estimate that as many as 20,000 cheaters are being banned from PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds on a daily basis.
BattlEye, who oversees the proactive protection system that attempts to keep PUBG’s community clean, revealed the staggering number of cheaters that have been banned. The anti-cheat company said that over 322,000 players have been banned since PUBG’s release back in March, with the majority of the banning happening in the last month. BattlEye said they are currently banning at a rate of 6K-13K per day, and in the last 24 hours they banned 20,000 players. They noted that a vast majority of those who were banned were from China, which has seen a significant surge in player numbers.
Over 322,000 cheaters have been banned from PUBG so far, more than twice as many as posted by @PLAYERUNKNOWN just a month ago.
— BattlEye (@TheBattlEye) October 13, 2017
We are currently banning at a rate of 6K-13K per day, nearly 20K within the last 24 hours alone. The vast majority is from China.
— BattlEye (@TheBattlEye) October 13, 2017
For example, yes, PUBG did decline a bit in the US lately but it was offset by skyrocketing player base in China and Korea pic.twitter.com/7iIUk5WxBs
— Steam Spy (@Steam_Spy) October 11, 2017
Despite the cheating problem, PUBG broke Steam’s record for highest number of concurrent players and regularly hits over 2 million concurrent players.