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PUBG: Battlegrounds has been making some gains since the game went free-to-play. The battle royale has been seeing an addition of 80,000 players each day.
Confirmed in the latest financial report by developer/publisher, Krafton, the company saw an increased net profit by 37% when compared with the same quarter last year.
94% of the revenue has been made outside of South Korea, which is where the game is made.
“PUBG: Battleground, which is available on PC and consoles, recently celebrated its fifth anniversary,” the company said. “The game, which transitioned to a free-to-play business model in January 2022, has seen a steady inflow of more than 80,00 new users per day. Accordingly, average revenue per user (APRU) across all platforms increased more than 20 per cent. International markets (outside of South Korea) drove 94 per cent of the game’s revenue during Q2 2022.”
Krafton also announced that it is going to be working on a new game based on the Korean fantasy book, The Bird That Drinks Tears.
Krafton stated that it would be an “ambitious project” that “aims to bring the original fantasy universe of The Bird That Drinks Tears to life through its unique and refreshing fantasy races, beautiful, haunting landscapes, and gripping, immersive, and poignant stories.”
Krafton explained that The Bird That Drinks Tears “is a novel series that was created and written by Yeong-do Lee, who is widely acknowledged as the pioneer of the Korean fantasy genre. As one of the best-selling fantasy authors in Korea with millions of copies sold, Mr. Lee is an exceptionally imaginative writer who builds elaborate worlds and fills them with complex characters.”
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Zainah Yousef is the author of The Fallen Age Saga and specializes in gaming, social media advice, and reviews. She's been writing all her life and she probably won't stop anytime soon.
