No, games aren't "dead" just because their concurrent user number has dropped over time – at least, that's what Palworld global community manager and Pocketpair Publishing boss John "Bucky" Buckley says.
Speaking in response to an online user who jokes that, and I quote, "Marathon is dead, Arc Raiders is dead," and, of course, "extraction games are dead" as a whole, Bucky states as much. "Just a thought but," he writes. "Do many fundamentally misunderstand what CCU [concurrent users] means?"
He continues, explaining that seeing 5,000 users at a certain time and then later on does "not necessarily mean the same 5,000 people are playing."
