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PUBG: Battlegrounds<\/em>, the PC and console version of the battle royale shooter series, is making a lot of money following its switch to free-to-play in January, as revealed by developer Krafton\u2019s latest earnings report published Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to the report, on PC, sales were up 61 percent year over year to $82.3 million. On console, the sales jump was even bigger, increasing 124 percent from the previous quarter and 274 percent year over year, though Krafton didn\u2019t put a dollar figure behind those increases. The game also saw a \u201cnearly tripled\u201d increase in average monthly active users from Q4 2021. <\/p>\n

PUBG: Battlegrounds<\/em> was originally a paid title when it launched on Steam in early access in 2017, but the outsized financial success of free-to-play battle royale shooters like Fortnite<\/em>, Call of Duty: Warzone<\/em>, and Apex Legends <\/em>proved that the free model can be quite lucrative. To give you an idea of just how lucrative, EA said this week that Apex Legends<\/em>, a game that has been out for a little over three years, has surpassed $2 billion in lifetime net bookings. And Epic raised $144 million for Ukraine relief<\/a> from just two weeks of Fortnite<\/em> proceeds.<\/p>\n

So for Krafton, switching PUBG: Battlegrounds<\/em> to free-to-play<\/a> was likely a pretty easy decision. And the popularity of PUBG: Mobile<\/em> (which is also free-to-play) probably helped; Krafton says that game, which has been downloaded more than 1 billion times as of March 2021<\/a>, earned $307.1 million in revenue in the first quarter of 2022, a figure that was up 5 percent year over year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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