Nearly 2 Million Concurrent Players Wipe Out the Also-Rans

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds saw another amazing number of people playing on Steam over the weekend. According to the latest Steam Charts, nearly 2 million concurrent players were on hand at one point (to be precise, 1,963,080) easily wiping out DOTA 2 in second place with about 700,000. In addition, over 16M users played on Sunday which accounts for about 12% of the total concurrent Steam users.

Why do you believe that PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has scored so big with players? Do you play?