The game slowly goes into a status where I don't even need to play it to be entertained by it.
Seriously why are they trying so hard to fuck themselves?
The ads are for VPNs, apparently most Chinese players suffer more lag and so they connect to European and US servers in an effort to lower it but that causes issues on those servers instead? apparently getting a VPN would solve that, so Bluehole partnered with a specific company to do it. Seems far-fetched, but if so it makes sense.
So they are already earning fucktons of money and then decided to sprinkle some shit on top of it by adding ads to a game that is already 30$ with microtransactions.
lmao
Its Bluehole Studios.
They lived by making tons of cashshop costumes in Tera while mostly recycling mobs and fights, taking ages for content updates.
Besides that they have Devillian which basically is failed and a bunch of mobile games.
First time I heard BHS is behind PUBG I already saw it coming that they will mess it up.
The microtransaction thing was the first step, wouldn't have guess "in-game ads" to be another one but I'm not actually surprised.
If your going to put ads into the game, then maybe make it free?, or at least reduce the price, cause a game which is $30 and has microtransactions should not have any ads at all.
[QUOTE=LuaChobo;52738027]makes sense but it doesnt fix the issues with their servers
its a half assed solution that forces the players to spend more money to bypass (not even fix) the underlying issue[/QUOTE]
The "underlying issue" is Chinese international connectivity and laws. Without a VPN you get absolute cancer ping to servers outside of China (for example all of PUBG's servers). Obviously the solution is to have Chinese servers, but Bluehole cannot just start running servers in China because Chinese law prevents foreign companies from doing that.
What companies usually do to deal with this issue is to partner with a local Chinese company to do this stuff, but that takes a lot of time. See how long it took Valve to officially release CSGO in China.
[QUOTE=Chubbs;52738044]The "underlying issue" is Chinese international connectivity and laws. Without a VPN you get absolute cancer ping to servers outside of China (for example all of PUBG's servers). Obviously the solution is to have Chinese servers, but Bluehole cannot just start running servers in China because Chinese law prevents foreign companies from doing that.
What companies usually do to deal with this issue is to partner with a local Chinese company to do this stuff, but that takes a lot of time. See how long it took Valve to officially release CSGO in China.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, so in my opinion putting the blame solely on Bluehole is a bit of a stretch here. This sucks, yeah, but for now it seems to be the only solution to let Chinese players play the game without massive connectivity issues. On the other hand they should, like Valve, have waited for the proper workaround and not partnered with a costly VPN.
[QUOTE=Coyoteze;52738020]The ads are for VPNs, apparently most Chinese players suffer more lag and so they connect to European and US servers in an effort to lower it but that causes issues on those servers instead? apparently getting a VPN would solve that, so Bluehole partnered with a specific company to do it. Seems far-fetched, but if so it makes sense.[/QUOTE]
Bluehole elude me as to how they continue to exist. They have a history of garbage business decisions like this after all.
It's a shame as the game itself is still progressing fairly well. It's just every so often Bluehole meddle and things like this happen. Whilst not ruining the game or gameplay itself, it doesn't look very good at all.
You created the most played game on steam right now which probably means you earn a fuck ton... and then you want more?
[QUOTE=PortalModIV;52738039]If your going to put ads into the game, then maybe make it free?, or at least reduce the price, cause a game which is $30 and has microtransactions should not have any ads at all.[/QUOTE]
There are currently [I]no[/I] microtransactions. It was a temporary measure at the time to fund a e-sports prize pool. It may come back at a later date, it may not. But it's not there now.
Only China are seeing these ads, it's a localised thing that a lot of online games with Chinese releases see. It's not great, but it's also not unprecedented and doesn't actually affect players outside of China unless you bump into a Chinese VPN user in a match (but the hit detection is so wonky at times you'll likely never know :~) )
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[QUOTE=Mifil;52738359]You created the most played game on steam right now which probably means you earn a fuck ton... and then you want more?[/QUOTE]
...yes? This is how publishers work. They are businesses. They are meant to make money constantly.
[QUOTE=Mifil;52738359]You created the most played game on steam right now which probably means you earn a fuck ton... and then you want more?[/QUOTE]
They make a shit ton of money and the investors only see more potential in this. It has a massive playerbase and injecting ads into their game would reach millions and therefor earn god knows how much more money. This would be the death for any mediocre small game but this is the most played game on Steam so no matter what they pull off they will still see the money regardless of what they do.
Sure this pisses people off but i don't imagine this dropping anytime soon.
[IMG]https://i.imgur.com/Jqr0ARS.png[/IMG]
Just to put the spotlight on someone who has made a successful product and doesn't sell out to ads, the creator of VLC denied several tens of thousands of euros which he would have gotten if he added ads into his VLC player.
Bluehole? More like Butthole amirite???
That's pretty scummy imo. With the amount of money they have, i wouldn't think it would be hard to partner with an infrastructure provider in China like Perfect World instead of advertising a borderline grey area illegal (in China) VPN.
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