PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

Fun fact:

I played H1Z1 for, like, 2000 hours. During that time I spent 20 dollars on the game when it launched (as a survival game) and all throughout I spent a total of MAYBE 25 or 35 more dollars. Why? I figure if a game has enough hours in it I will always be willing to invest up to 60 dollars in it. I was never much for skins so I just bought a few boxes to try and get some of the lower tier things I wanted. At the end when I was done with H1Z1 because PUBG was out, I sold some of my stuff. My free boxes, my skins I had earned over time and from boxes and grinding, etc. I sold all that shit for like $130. So I MADE money playing the game. And 90% of that money I got was from stuff I earned for free from within the game.

I'm totally fine with skins being sold in boxes. You don't need them. No one needs them. Fuck anyone who claims anything otherwise. It's extra bright colored pixels. If the rich and/or dumb want to spend hundreds trying to get some tracksuit or googly eye goggles, let them. Those of us who aren't skin sluts will end up profiting in the end.

Gravel said:

It seems like maybe they don't realize how quickly a fad game like this can end when people move on. I don't think it's going to take much for a mass exodus. Like has been said, the game was almost entirely built on word of mouth and streamers. That's a fickle group.

The other possibility is that they do realize it and are trying to milk it for what they can while they still have a playerbase.

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Ding ding, especially when you have Destiny 2 right around the corner in September/October and the new Call of Duty and Battlefront in November. This is the first game I've seen grow like a fuckin' wildfire purely because of Twitch and the big name streamers. Once they move on to something else I see the popularity dropping like a rock unless the devs have a hardcore content release schedule or other incentives to keep playing up their sleeves. #1 thing the game needs is more maps. Even if it does die I don't care, got 160+ hours (as of right now) out of it which is fantastic for a $30 game.

Cybsled said:

Although apparently the items are unisex, so expect to see skirts sell well and people putting them on their guy characters lol

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fuck yeah i was gonna have to save up 3k points to change sex but now my pre-op transgendered xer can wear a fucking skirt? I WILL BE FABULOUS and die to one punch man at the start as usual

Again I don't have a problem with microtransactions for cosmetics using real money. I've bought crates in OW and skins on League and a few other things like that. THAT isn't the problem here. The problem is the disregard for communicating with the playerbase and walking back what they've said previously AND the actual implementation of it being worst-case instead of middle-of-the-road or best-case, using experience from other games on the market. It's a terrible business decision and only hurts the game in the long run. And when your game is a 100 person multiplayer only free-for-all you NEED a healthy population. The worse the population gets the less fun it is and the population spirals in on itself like that.

Yes, there's tons of players right now. It's still growing and it seems unlikely the idiocy of business statements made on Discord will slow it down much for now. I'd just like to see the game reach its potential instead of flounder and die mediocre like so many others before it. That's what's annoying, made especially so by the fact that again, it's a sudden switch from previous behavior of the PUBG devs.

D2 on PC is going to crush this game for at least a month or two. Who knows about the longevity of that game. However, this IS a game you can just come back to and play a couple games here and there.

Gorehack said:

D2 on PC is going to crush this game for at least a month or two. Who knows about the longevity of that game. However, this IS a game you can just come back to and play a couple games here and there.

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It took me a minute to figure out which D2 you were talking about The beta seems to have been lukewarm but the fact that Destiny 1 wasn't on PC probably make it a bigger thing on PC yea.

I mean, the big thing with PUBG is it has shown how much desire there is for a competent game of the genre. All it will take is one big studio dropping a more polished version and PUBG is dead if they don't keep the community happy.

Look at Titanfall 2. They did essentially everything right and the multiplayer is still dead because it went up against another big name at the same time. PUBG is doing so well because of how absolute shit previous BR entries have been up until now and let's be fair, PUBG is still pretty fucking janky and has a lot of polish and growth required. Even Electronic Arts has been hurt financially by treating their player base like garbage and EA seemed to be immune to bad publicity for like a decade.

Titanfall 2 would have a lot more players if EA was on steam. Quake Champions (a game I want to succeed at the highest level) has to end up on steam or its fucking dead if bethesda keeps it on their shit launcher.

Oh that didn't even occur to me, but you're right - the home of the game matters a lot. Blizzard and Steam have the biggest inherent player base by a huge factor. EA/Origin isn't small but it tends to be people that buy their one specific game - CoD or Sportsball or BF. TF2 was a complete side thing and without Steam's massive population and going up against what, BF1 or something? On their own launcher? That hurt it as much as anything. The point about player population stands I suppose. I recently tried to get into the MP and it just wasn't fun because the other like 2300 people playing had been playing for months and there's no way to balance that matchmaking for a newbtard like me.

Amzin said:

It took me a minute to figure out which D2 you were talking about The beta seems to have been lukewarm but the fact that Destiny 1 wasn't on PC probably make it a bigger thing on PC yea.

I mean, the big thing with PUBG is it has shown how much desire there is for a competent game of the genre. All it will take is one big studio dropping a more polished version and PUBG is dead if they don't keep the community happy.

Look at Titanfall 2. They did essentially everything right and the multiplayer is still dead because it went up against another big name at the same time. PUBG is doing so well because of how absolute shit previous BR entries have been up until now and let's be fair, PUBG is still pretty fucking janky and has a lot of polish and growth required. Even Electronic Arts has been hurt financially by treating their player base like garbage and EA seemed to be immune to bad publicity for like a decade.

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I think the issue with the beta is that it was more of a trial and less of a beta. It has like 1% of the game in it so it feels like nothing.

Araxen said:

I don't mind them adding crates to the game, but they should be added after the games comes out of early access. This is just as bad as Ark releasing paid DLC on a title that was still in early access. It's not like Bluehole is hurting for money either as the game has sat atop the top sellers list on Steam since the game launched. They could have avoided all this lootbox drama and did it when the game was finished like they originally said they were going to do.

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I mean, it's only adding this paid crate currently as a said -test- and for proceeds to the invitational.. whatever they pocket, I have no damn idea. The rest of the paid crate shouldn't be coming until actual release, so said. As someone said, they made enough money, but I would never expect a company to just put its money up to a tournament that they don't even know if it will be worth. Last thing they want is dash con, and it's possible to be a Shinmue style funding.

I just don't see a survival game knocking PUBG off its high horse. There are so many survival games that came before it, tried to hype, and just fell so short. Pubg will either ride out its own success and do well, or rub people salty to never play the survival/br genre again to atleast achieve the some odd million sales. It won't matter if EA, Blizzard, ect jump on ship.. you'll just be looking at a hots to dota2/league.

Dandain said:

Titanfall 2 would have a lot more players if EA was on steam. Quake Champions (a game I want to succeed at the highest level) has to end up on steam or its fucking dead if bethesda keeps it on their shit launcher.

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EA are fucking morons for not being on Steam. No Steam for me = no sale.

The last thing the world needs is another goddamn installer....

OK so this is exactly what I was fucking worried about with my questioning the PUBG devs mentality. Someone just got banned for 7 days for killing a streamer because the streamer complained about stream sniping and his chat spam reported the guy. So far there's been 0 evidence that there was sniping and the streamer is apparently known to complain about stream sniping an unreasonable amount.

The dude is appealing the ban but the fact that people from a streamer's chat got some random guy banned for 7 days by just COMPLAINING about something with no evidence is exactly why people can't let devs' get away with dumb shit even if they don't personally get affected by it.

Duo Partner banned for 7 days for "stream sniping" • r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS

So far, unlike the previous recent rage, there's no one defending this ban.

I killed summit like 2 days ago kind of sad I didn't get reported so I can be the cause of the drama.

That's actually insane, how can you possibly ban someone for stream sniping? I mean unless they are literally on stream saying "I'm stream sniping this guy" and then kill the guy there is NO way to prove it happened.

Let alone the fact that they're having a fire fight while nades are going off, alerting half the fuckin server where they are with all the noise, no shit somebody is going to hit shroud who is STANDING STILL out in the open.

The biggest take away: After you kill someone famous, don't shit talk them on open mic in game telling them you think their streams are awesome.

This TK banning shit is getting out of control, they are going to fuck themselves.

With that being said, this excites me.

Just realized it's a crate weapon. SOOO FUCKING TIRED OF CRATE WEAPONS! PUT MORE SHIT IN THE WORLD.

sometimes my player will keep moving to the left, even if I'm trying to move in the opposite direction - is this common because of lag or just my shitty wireless keyboard?

Probably your keyboard, I had a razer keyboard that would do shit like that occasionally.

Stream sniping shouldn't even be a bannable offense unless you're TRYING to get banned by running around in a video saying "hey I'm stream sniping you haha sucker".

It's sort of a weird limbo of victim blaming to say Streamers have to accept that risk and can take measures against it etc. but at some point they really DO have to accept that. It's a vastly overblown problem anyway (much like the masses complaining about cheaters constantly) and as mentioned it's super impossible to prove it without a confession. Saying "I like your stream" isn't a confession