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I don't like the crate system, but PUBG is expensive, and they need recurring income to keep it operating over several years. Here's a breakdown of their minimum server cost ($1.68m/month):

• 95% of the time, more than 127000 players are ingame.
  
• Assuming 90% of players are in game, and 95 players per server, means 1200 instances are online at all times.
  
• The machines are running "on the highest possible spec machines that AWS offer". (Therefore we can also assume one machine runs one instance only.)
  
• A c4.8xlarge.gamelift server ("Use cases: MMO gaming") is $1399 a month in North America, and more expensive in other PUBG regions.
  
  1200 NA instances always online at $1399 a month equals $1.68m per month. More than 127k players in game? Price goes up. Players elsewhere in the world? Price goes up. Sell more copies? Price goes up.
  
  Rough estimate, PUBG costs $4m in server costs monthly, before the cost of employees. They currently have ~3 years of runway. Selling more copies doesn't necessarily increase this runway, because server costs go up the more people play.

Obviously not as I don't know what their full tech stack is. As a network engineer however, I know that operating costs for infrastructure are quite expensive.

I also know that they are running on Amazon AWS servers. From a patch note in May, they mention they are running on the "highest possible spec machines that AWS offers". Feel free to look up for yourself what some of those costs can be.