PUBG is now Free-2-Play

[RooksBailey]

I think of all the games from last year that connected with me in a way I didn't expect, PUBG was at the top of the list. I've tried a bunch of other Battle Royales, but none of them stuck with me - Fortnite was too "after-school;" "Apex Legends" was too squad-dependent, and "Warzone" was too...well, Call of Duty-ish. Only PUBG connected with me because of its more serious nature where smart tactics and marksmanship beat "spray and prays." This gives old fingers like mine a chance at competing, albeit I am still looking for that chicken dinner (I have made it to be one of the last 10 survivors a few times - last three in one agonizingly close battle!).

Anywho, Krafton has finally taken the game F2P so it can compete with all the other F2P BRs out there. This is long overdue! And boy did the gamers flock in yesterday - around 650K concurrent players!

Trailer:

And there was much newbie carnage. (Seriously, I got four kills in ten minutes without even trying!) This is a great time to give it a try because the hardcore base has now been diluted with fresh blood giving filthy casuals like me a shot at surviving until the end.

Why do I suspect the many Fortnite players who no doubt flocked into PUBG yesterday came away with this reaction:

 

[Manticore]

I uninstalled PUBG on the PS4 recently because I was running out of HDD space.

When I upgrade the HDD I must reinstall..... thanks for the heads up.

o7!

[Edit]i mght even install a version on the PC and start up an alt account....those videos are hilarious, particularly the second one. Have those guys got Australian accents?!?!?! Sounds like it to me.[/Edit]

 

[alexzk]

Better play this time rewinding game from frontiers if you need pvp.
At least it has some planning instead pew-pew.

 

[Morbad]

Does PUBG on PC require Steam?

 

[RooksBailey]

I uninstalled PUBG on the PS4 recently because I was running out of HDD space.

When I upgrade the HDD I must reinstall..... thanks for the heads up.

o7!

[Edit]i mght even install a version on the PC and start up an alt account....those videos are hilarious, particularly the second one. Have those guys got Australian accents?!?!?! Sounds like it to me.[/Edit]

Viva La Dirt League is from New Zealand IIRC. They actually started making videos back in the heydey of the Starcraft competitive scene. When that fizzled out they moved on to PUBG and that is when their channel started making bank. They were recently offered their own show by Netflix but they turned it down because they wanted to keep creative control. I think a bunch of the team actually work in the NZ movie industry, which explains their better than average production values and acting.

This is another of my favorites: it pokes fun at players being unable to just hand each other an item without putting it on the ground first:

Besides their hilarious PUBG vids, they also do "Epic NPC Man" which pokes fun at RPG conventions:

Glad I could help!

Does PUBG on PC require Steam?

Either Steam or Stadia.

 

[Morbad]

Either Steam or Stadia.

Oh well. Price is still too high for me then.

 

[RooksBailey]

This article was written before yesterday's player count of 697,000+!

If PUBG is the biggest Steam game of all time, free-to-play PUBG is the sixth-biggest

PUBG's reaching its biggest player counts in years after going free-to-play, but not matching its early heights

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After its free-to-play launch today, PUBG reached a peak concurrent player count of 668,706, as SteamDB shows. That makes it the second-biggest game on Steam today (just behind Counter-Strike: Global Offensive), and would make it the sixth-biggest Steam game of all time, behind New World, Cyberpunk 2077, Dota 2, CS:GO, and, er, itself.

One thing I really like about the game is the lore. Too many games today are military-themed, such as Warzone. I like the idea of a lunatic billionaire inviting oddballs to kill each other for a chicken dinner. It also smoothes over the crazy costumes you come across in the game. Stuff like that doesn't make sense in Warzone but it does here.Let Jonathan Frakes explain it:

Krafton has announced big plans for expanding on the lore in new games, graphic novels, and perhaps more. I love tie-in stuff like that. But I suppose when you get right down to it, PUBG and all the BRs owe a big debt of gratitude to Richard Connell.