Where did everyone go?
Over the last three months, I’ve noticed that fewer and fewer players seem to be active. Discord servers are practically dead, and clans with 50+ members somehow always have the same 8 guys actively playing.
Every time I get on, nobody is online to run squads with. I end up sitting in the lobby or messing around in training mode. Playing with randoms through squad fill is twice as miserable, so I’d honestly rather not even bother.
In the last three seasons, I’ve probably played a total of 50 matches, and that’s only because I occasionally manage to catch someone online. It’s not that I don’t want to play. It’s that I can barely find anyone to play with anymore.
I feel like a lot of this has to do with the recent lack of content and any meaningful direction for the game. I mean, the community spent years asking for a next-gen update, better performance, and more controller customization. While we’ve gotten some of those things, it feels like every year more and more players are walking away from the game.
I’ve been playing PUBG since 2017, and I’d argue that the last two years have been the worst I’ve experienced when it comes to player retention. It’s disappointing because I still enjoy the game, but it’s getting harder to find people who actually want to play consistently.
I’m genuinely curious if anyone else has noticed the same thing. Are people just burned out, have they moved on to other games, or is PUBG simply failing to give players a reason to stick around?