PUBG Banning 6,000 Players A Day, Most Of Which Are Chinese Players

PUBG Banning 6,000 Players A Day, Most Of Which Are Chinese Players

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is breaking records every single day and now has a record number of concurrent players on Steam at 2.1 million. Perhaps this is why the developers are comfortable with massive numbers of cheaters getting banned on a daily basis at 6,000 players a day and 322,000 players getting banned, so far.

According to the Tweets of the anti-cheating firm BattleEye, the rate of cheaters being banned from PUBG actually goes as far as 13,000 a day. What’s more, it seems that most of these cheaters are originating from China. In fact, just last Saturday, over 20,000 cheaters got flattened with the ban hammer.

“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,” the Tweet reads.

This rate of cheaters getting banned from the game has grown at a staggering pace compared to a month ago. It’s actually double what PUBG creator Brian Greene had said, PC Gamer reports.

Of course, these kinds of trends are only to be expected from a title that is rising in popularity as rapidly as the Battle Royale game. If a video game rises as fast as PUBG does, it’s safe to say that many malicious individuals are going to pass through the cracks.

According to Steamspy’s estimates, the game has sold over 16,000 million copies. That is a whole lot of players facing the pressure to be the greatest in any given match, where only one survives out of 100.

The cheat banning statistics have brought about the controversy of painting Chinese players as overly reliant on cheating, as well. Many are saying that the numbers may paint a discriminatory picture of a player demographic that make up as much as 40 percent or more of PUBG’s player base. As BattleEye said, however, no discrimination is intended.