PUBG Creator s Concerns About Fortnite s Battle Royale Mode

A record many thought unbreakable: has been broken. That's right Dota 2's record for the most concurrent players on Steam has been broken by PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. A non-Valve game. A game not even out of Early Acc


Let me say that again: Bluehole expected within its first year on the market, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds would ship at best 300,000 units. It has already sold 10 million in less than six months. Again, cr

Since its announcement, many have raised concerns regarding the similarities between the mode and PUGB, with some even suggesting that the mode is not so much just inspired by Bluehole's shooter, but is more of a copy and paste eff


"We have also noticed that Epic Games references PUBG in the promotion of Fortnite to their community and in communications with the press. This was never discussed with us and we don’t feel that it’s rig


The news comes via PLAYERUNKNOWN's (aka Brendan Green, the game's creative director) Twitter account, where it was revealed that today the battle-royale shooter hit 1,342,857 players, healthily beating out Dota 2's previous record-holding figure of 1,295,


Discovered by Reddit user DevinWatson , these details items, which range from cosmetics to possible new gameplay mechanics, may find their way into the upcoming PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds update which new modes and maps, and of course, zombies. Some of these items already exist within PUBG , which speaks to the validity of the files and their possible introduction into the playable game. DevinWatson explained as much alongside his posting of the files saying that the items may just be artifacts that were never introduced into the g


For the time being, though, there seems to be other priorities. Greene mentioned a few specifics, like a nighttime setting, something which fans have been requesting for quite a while. He teased that this is already being prototyped, and apparently players will be "surprised at how good it loo


In a few days, Epic Game's co-op sandbox survival Early Access game, Fornite, will receive a new PvP Battle Royale mode that draws inspiration from Bluehole's __ standalone Battle Royale survival shooter, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, which is the first of its k


PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is currently available on PC via Steam Early Access for $29.99 USD. A full release is expected to come sometime in 2018. Further, an Xbox One version (via Xbox Game Preview) is expected to arrive later this y


However, that doesn't mean such a mode is going to be added in the near future, or indeed ever. Greene noted that the team at Bluehole Studio simply don't have the time and resources required to do a campaign justice — although that's not to say that this will always be the c

This information was first spotted by reddit user Defying , when the question was asked whether it was considered acceptable to edit configuration files. In response to the question, Bluehole responded by stating the following:


"We’ve had an ongoing relationship with Epic Games throughout PUBG’s development as they are the creators of UE4, the engine we licensed for the game," said Chang Han Kim, Vice President and Executive Producer for Bluehole, Inc. "After listening to the growing feedback from our community and reviewing the gameplay for ourselves, we are concerned that Fortnite may be replicating the experience for which PUBG is kno


Battlegrounds looks set to go from strength to strength, not least when Xbox One players have a timed-exclusive opportunity to try it out for themselves. With a nighttime setting potentially coming soon, and the prospect of destructible environments and story content in the far-flung future, it's clear that Greene and his team hope to keep up the game's momentum going by making sure that it continues to grow and evo


When Greene pitched the game to Bluehole, he predicted it would see 1 million units in its first month ( in reality it sold 2 million ). However, while Greene was quite bullish in his predictions -- after all 1 million in one month would have been a great figure -- Bluehole only expected the title to ship 200,000 to 300,000 units in the entirety of its first y

Recently, we learned that PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds ' publisher Bluehole only expected the game to sell a mere 200,000 or 300,000 copies in its first year. The game had been released for only five months when it was announced to have sold more than 10 million copies through Steam Early Access.

In case you were wondering, editing a configuration file in your copy of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds could result in getting banned from the game, according to a change that was made on the PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds FAQ page.


PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is currently available in Early Access form on PC -- via Steam -- for $29.99 USD. A full release is expected in 2018. Further, an Xbox One version (via Xbox Game Preview) is expected to hit sometime later this y