PUBG Mobile is a Battle Royale Game that is currently popular all over the world. This game is an adaptation of a paid PC game, namely Player Unknown Battle Ground or PUBG for short. PUBG Mobile was developed directly by a well-known company, Tencent.
Unlike the PC game, LUBG Mobile can be downloaded for free on the Playstore. Behind its success, it turns out that PUBG Mobile has quite a surprising fact. Here are 5 surprising facts about PUBG Mobile that you didn’t know.
1. The Battle Royale Themed Mobile Game first time adapted from PC
The success of PUBG (PC) made the developers want to adapt it into a Mobile Game. And finally PUBG Mobile became the first Battle Royale game adapted from a PC game. The Tencent company managed to make this game into a smartphone and can be downloaded for free on the Playstore. Many players are really looking forward to the release of this game because the original game, namely PUBG (pc) is a paid game and to play requires PC/laptop specs that allow it.
2. Have Downloaded as much 100 million time
PUBG Mobile has been downloaded 100 million times and has 14 million active players every day. This fact is the proudest thing for this game, because PUBG Mobile only took 6 months after its release on the Playstore. This factor seems to be influenced by the original game, namely PUBG PC which already has 400 million players worldwide from various types of platforms. So don’t be surprised if this Mobile Game can reach 100 million downloads in just a few months, and will continue to grow.
3. behind sentence Winner Winner Chicken Dinner
Every time you manage to be the last one to survive there must be a sentence Winner Winner Chicken Dinner. For those of us who don’t know it, it must be quite strange to hear this sentence in the game, but it turns out that this sentence has quite a meaning related to the history of gambling. That is the story of the Casino in Las Vegas in the 1970’s. A casino is a place where gambling is run by a company legally. That year in Las Vegas the lowest bet for a Poker, Blackjack or Slot Machine game was $2. Incidentally the price of chicken for dinner in Las Vegas at that time was only about $ 1.79 which means if someone can win the smallest bet can buy chicken for dinner. If in English that means Chicken Dinner.
4. PUBG inspired from a Film
PUBG is a Battle Royale genre game, the game was inspired by a film. The origin of the Battle Royale game is inspired by the Japanese novel Battle Royale which was written in 1996 and released in 1999. It tells the story of 40 students who are sent to an island for three days to kill each other in order to survive. Only one person can survive. Each student is provided with water, medicine, maps, compasses and random weapons. In addition to the novel, the 2008 novel The Hunger Games also uses the same concept. The Hunger Games is also a famous Hollywood film starring Jennifer Lawrence.
5. Tencent is company developer PUBG Mobile
The success of the PUBG Mobile Game is inseparable from its development company, Tencent Games. Tencent is the largest technology company in China that has succeeded in mastering social media in China thanks to the WeChat, Moment, Mobile QQ and QQ applications. Uniquely here, Tencent was not originally a games company but a technology company. Not only PUBG Mobile, Tencent also develops games such as LoL, AoV, Cross Fire, CoD Online and many more.
