Only way to buy it is from steam because that's where the multiplayer servers are. 

I'm pretty sure in Asia it's possible to but if from somewhere else. Only 420k players have played solo on the Europe servers(on Xbox), and only 100k in Asia . That's 520k between the 2. I can't get a number for North America because that's where I regularly play, but it's probably 1-1.5 million.

I'm pretty sure in Asia it's possible to but if from somewhere else. Only 420k players have played solo on the Europe servers(on Xbox), and only 100k in Asia . That's 520k between the 2. I can't get a number for North America because that's where I regularly play, but it's probably 1-1.5 million.

I mean unless you don't know what the game's about at all you're not going  to learn the fun of it till you play it.

It's a battle royale game with 100 players on a big map. You can get weapons by foraging around. You can get cars to use to get to the waypoint. If you don't make it to the waypoint a blue border kills you. The fun in it is the tension, but you're going to have to decide for yourself if that's fun, because a lot of people think it's a boring game. 

It's hard to estimate players through the leaderboards and there is probably quite a lot who have only played with friends in duo or squads and haven't touched the solo queue but on my NA I have 1 game with 1000 rating and It's 901k ( was 702k on Sunday when I first had a game on NA) Also your rating does go below 1000 if your first few games are real bad there could be another few 100k players below my ranking for all I know.

In Asia you buy it from steam.  Even if you bought it fr another store you will play using the steam servers so they will count in that 26.65m players. I doubt the game sold over 4m because of game sharing. I think it sold around 3m.

On the Europe and Asia servers I only played 1 match and I died as fast as possible to get to the bottom of the leaderboards. Ur telling me it's possible to get lower than being the first person to die and only playing one match? Also I assume around 80% or so of players have played at least 1 solo match. I also assume 20% of players either gameshare, have multiple accounts, received free copies,played matches in multiple regions or returned their copy. All these combined probably come close to counteracting the users that never played solo. It's for all these reasons that I believe the number I see on the leaderboards is a decent representation of pubg owners.

  Don't get me wrong I very much want this game to be a 4 million units but that just isn't the case.

In Asia you buy it from steam.  Even if you bought it fr another store you will play using the steam servers so they will count in that 26.65m players. I doubt the game sold over 4m because of game sharing. I think it sold around 3m.

Not that many people do game sharing. And on resetera they say it's possible to but it not on steam. For example when the devs announced 20!million sells steamspy only had it at 16 million.

Alright so steamspy might not be 100% reliable. But I think at least 2m is a given.