PUBG Mobile has now grossed more than War Robots

War Robots should have sold the best items in the game for about 20 dollars. No 200 or 300 dollar bots. No 1,5 month upgrade time for one bot or weapon. I'm quite sure, they would have sold a lot more virtual items, if the best items were 20 dollars max and good items about 5 to 10 dollars. Even better: By doing so, the player base might have grown greatly, like it did with PUBG Mobile.

I'm glad PUBG is grossing a lot, as I'm enjoying the game and hope for it to last a while. No MK2. No Boosters. No Modules.

Pure skill.

I don't understand why Pixonic didn't see this great opportunity. Before War Robots, mech games were rare in the mobile gaming segment. War Robots had, at some time, a pretty much unique selling point. Of course, there were tons of other shooters around in 2014 and 2015, but the setting of War Robots was a kind of its own. This could have become one of the grand e-sport games like Counterstrike, PUBG, Fortnite, DOTA, LOL and so on. But all our dearest Philsonic could think of, was selling power and thus making the game inbalanced. 

I wonder how Stan's doing. Haven't heared from him in a whale now. 

Oh man I would love to slap that in their 「slow」 faces!

Tencent.   Owns League of Legends and publishes PUBG Mobile.  Owns 40% of Epic Games too (and Fortnite and Unreal Engine).   Has a mobile game (Arena of Valor/Honor of Kings) with 200 million plus players.

They know what clicks and what not.  

Why are you comparing the two? PUBG isn't p2w because it's so easy to win. That's why it has become so popular so fast. I hear little kids on the mic having a good time playing PUBG like GTA.

I think it is too late. Going back to Smirnov’s article, I reckon Mail.ru bought the game with the intent to aggressively monetize it. The game is old now. Competition is getting really tough. PUBG surpassed Pix but that’s nothing in comparison to fortnite which was launched in 2017 (if I remember correctly) has a revenue of $2M/day (vs $35K for War Robots). During the dash release War Robots was #5 and now cant crack the 100 mark. The spenders in the game also want power and years of monetization attracted/retained those who will only buy if Power is sold. The risk associated with a strategy turn around would be too huge because they would have to attract a new bunch of core players and increase the user base significantly. But then the issue of the age of the game comes back into consideration again. The inbuilt monetization features would take ages to neutralise to the extent that a relaunch may be required. But in any case Phil still wonders at monetization elements in other games so nothing will change. They will milk the players in this game until the game is not meeting their revenue expectations and then provide a 6 month notice before server shut downs (just like with Robinsons).

I wonder what the policy is for spending money and a game going under. Say if you spent $20 on comps and the game shuts down unexpectedly two weeks later... is google going to give those players google credit back?

The game in general is focused on short term profits. Probably the castle map was the last decent long term effort I've seen. Everything else is wave after wave of OP bots and weapons that nearly unattainable unless you buy components or gamble with BM tokens.

I've been playing for hours every day for a week... Sure, I haven't won every solo/duo/squad match... But usually if I camp, I win. Campers rule PUBG (mobile). Whoever gets to the center of the safe zone first just has to wait like a predator and pounce on the enemies running from the deadly gas who usually have low hp and need to heal before they scout the safe zone.

It's more about peer pressure. If you're not in school, you're not playing these games. I've never heard of them, never played them. Saw a video on my utube feed once, clicked on it, and thought it was the stupidest game ever. Not even sure what game it was. 

High school is all about pecking order. If you want to be a lemming, then play that game. I like to play games that are fun like War Robots. 

Pix gave Robinsons users 6 months notice before shutting the servers down. Once notice is given and it is easily seen by users and you still spend I am not sure apple will refund your monies.

But then it won't be fun because of the pressure to keep winning and maybe even go live on YT and be watched and criticized. No thanks.

^^^ this exactly

But the main reason for PUBG's success is most likely not because it's f2p... Console and PC players have to buy the game, so they pay for mobile users to play for free. PUBG mobile is more successful than War Robots because PUBG is already a successful game on Xbox. There are similar games to PUBG such as H1Z1 (free) on PS4 and Garena Free Fire (much smaller installation) on mobile that are becoming as popular.