• PUBG creator under fire for charging players a fee to play on custom servers.
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https://www.pcgamesn.com/playerunknowns-battlegrounds/pubg-custom-servers-paywall
it's understandable, but don't they already make enough money from loot boxes to pay for servers?
is there a reason they can't release server files?
I think it's obvious at this point that PlayerUnknown is a money hungry bastard and is more than happy to make/save money at the expense of his playerbase/repuatation
I don't even feel like the game's in their hands at this point. Ever since it got super popular, it feels like some suits have taken over (Tencent) and are just trying to maximize profits at the expense of the game.
"Why would Epic do this to us?????"
PUBG needs to die now. It's overstayed it's welcome and is now painfully obvious in its plan to milk it's playerbase for every penny they have rather than, y'know, making the game any better.
Fortnite is better anyways
I mean the money clearly doesn’t go into the development of the game, so fuck them anyways
There's plenty of us who have zero interest in a third-person shooter.
Fortnite and PUBG are very different games, aside from the basic premise. This is just the modern version of the stupid COD vs Battlefield
They can't provide server files because then they expect cheaters to use said files to develop better cheats, since you've opened your server core up into the public eye. they can't even make a proper anti-cheat system lmao https://clips.twitch.tv/ImpartialBreakableHamburgerKappaPride joke of a development team
Reminds me of WarZ Developer Sergey Titov.
tbh I have been avoiding this game in favour of other games, Arma 3 for example. Battle Royale was fun but it's not my kinda gameplay. With that said fuck PUBG, uninstalled from my library, not even a good game anyway
His comparison to ARMA is absurd. The ARMA series isn't a multiplayer only game that already has the infrastructure set up for this sort of thing, didn't suddenly decide "We're taking this feature away from you, gotta pay now, too bad!" and from what i've seen there are plenty of options for hosting servers from third-party providers.
CoD and BF are at least fully working games. PUBG is just a clusterfuck of development that besides massive amounts of income continues to fail. Disregarding your personal preference, Fortnite is a better game and they actually develop the game.
I disagree. Maybe it's gotten worse than it used to be but Greene has done this kind of shit before. Remember when they added paid crates in early access, and he said that there probably wouldn't be free crates at all in the full version? Oh and speaking of that, I'm pretty sure he originally said that they wouldn't put microtransactions in until full release.
Fortnite is free. Nuff said.
Yeah but that's what makes me thing the higher ups are strong arming him to include them anyway. Though I have no illusions that the guy isn't a prick and probably didn't care about his promises.
Can't spend what you don't have
The building spam ruins it for me honestly. I like the moments in PUBG when you suddenly hear bullets fly by and you have to figure out where to take cover.
i like how they have to call him "pubg creator" because even tho he invented shooting games none of the lil kids who play his game would know who he is lol
I see your point, but even if that's the case he's still complicit. He's made so much money at this point that he could have left if the publisher was really forcing him into it. Hell, if he did that and started a new studio with a new game I bet his name alone could sell it. Maybe he's just apathetic, idk. Whatever the case it doesn't make him look good.
Building spam is why I could never get into forknife. Realm Royale might be what you're looking for.
I only played PUBG for 40 hours before getting bored of it, but here is why I never even considered installing Fortnite (This was before it became popular, mind you) - I loved PUBG for it's "back to the roots" simplicity. You had your character and you had random loot on the map. You collect guns and items, you shoot other guys. In Fortnite you collect loot, XP, materials, build stuff with said materials, etc. I don't like that type of game. If you do, that's great, but Fortnite is not better than PUBG. It's a very different game for very different tastes.
It is objectively better from a technical standpoint, if nothing else. (Not saying one game is better overall, just want to point out that from at least one angle, Fortnite is objectively a better game)
The real shame about this is how most people use it as an excuse to hate PUBG even more. We get it. Nobody is forcing you to like it. Barging into every PUBG related thread to say "PUBG sucks" is like barging into any thread about the US just to say "Trump is shit". Yeah, we get it and most people agree, but how is that related? Bluehole's reaction to the question of custom modding is fair. It an exclusively multiplayer game, hosted on dedicated servers. Allowing people to host their own servers could introduce a lot of security risks and bugs. Yeah, a lot of other games handle it just fine. But they were made with that purpose in mind. For example, a few years back I used to play a lot of Space Station 13. One of the coders for the Facepunch server slipped in some sort of code that could read the user's browser's stored passwords. I was lucky enough to catch it before any harm was done, but it shows the risk of custom servers without proper security.
Between forcing your players to pay if they want custom servers and people ragging on PUBG, not only did you think the latter was the bigger concern but the former was also worth defending? I can't even pretend to be surprised.
Hosting servers on your own PC is out of the question. If we were to compare this to any other game, it wouldn't be weird. If you want to set up a dedicated server for any source game, and it can't be hosted by yourself, then you pay for it. Yet it is absurd for PUBG?
It's different in the sense that those who paid for servers where those who were actually willing to set up servers, not everyone who simply wants to play on custom servers. I get that servers cost money, but the costs of running a server are always handled by either publishers or those willing to set up servers, not players. PUBG isn't an MMO with a subscription fee either, before anyone tries to make that argument as well. An argument that has been rendered moot by now because of the many MMOs that have ditched the subscription model. You'd think with maybe the MILLIONS of dollars the game gets through cosmetics and battle passes alone they'd be able to cover the costs of running servers?
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