Welcome to Thunderdome

Posted: **Fri Jul 07, 2017 8:33 pm**

Apparently crazy popular - 4 million sales @ $30/each

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, or PUBG for short, is a unicorn. It's an unfinished mess of a shooter with no tutorials and a bunch of game-breaking bugs. And yet, it's so nail-bitingly immersive that 4 million people have shelled out $30 a pop in just three months.

Basically, you and 99 other players parachute onto an island filled with deadly weaponry, and fight to the death. If you're the last person standing, you win
....

Like the crazy traps in "The Hunger Games" and the explosive collars in Battle Royale, the ever-shrinking zapfield is what keeps the action moving -- so players don't all just set up camp and wait for foes to stumble into their crosshairs.

It's like a fast version of Rust.

I'm guessing Stranger plays it already.

Posted: **Tue Aug 29, 2017 2:10 pm**

It has surpassed DOTA 2 for most players on Steam.

Posted: **Fri Sep 08, 2017 10:52 am**

Surpassed 1 million concurrent players.

Posted: **Mon Sep 18, 2017 1:25 pm**

Cake said, "Ask Troy if it's any good because there's probably only a 2% chance he hasn't played it."

Posted: **Mon Sep 18, 2017 2:40 pm**

I've been doing other distractions or traveling a lot lately. Been reading or playing live poker more than PC games. That 2% chance is right on in this case. I've watched a bunch of cool videos on Youtube of this game though. And a few have popped up on my reddit feeds as well. It reminds me of that Rust mode that had similar rules.

I'm in western NC with the wife's family this week dealing with some health issues. Back in SF next week. If ya'll are multi-ing a game like this, I'm down.

Posted: **Mon Sep 18, 2017 2:57 pm**

I'll post here if we do.

Good luck with those health issues.

Posted: **Mon Oct 16, 2017 1:09 pm**

LOTS of people getting banned for cheating.

Posted: **Mon Oct 30, 2017 10:39 am**

Faces a ban in China for going against "core Socialist values".

Share this story with all your friends that think Socialism is a great idea.

Posted: **Wed Nov 08, 2017 5:59 pm**

For some reason I've really been getting more and more curious about this game. If it goes on sale during the holiday Steam sale, it's getting bought.

Posted: **Tue Dec 12, 2017 8:57 am**

Camel Toes (slghtly NSFW)

Posted: **Fri Jan 19, 2018 11:49 am**

About to ban 100K cheaters.

They've already banned more than 300K since launching.

This is the biggest reason I won't buy this game. The cheating is way out of control.

Ditto for Stream Sniping Reports. Not so much that people are doing it, but if a streamers reports anyone, they get banned. Proof be damned. That's fucked up.

Posted: **Mon Feb 05, 2018 6:48 pm**

1 million players banned in January.

Why do people play this game?

Posted: **Thu Mar 08, 2018 9:23 am**

Latest attempt to stop cheating resulted in random players being banned. A fix is on the way.

PUBG is going to be a "don't" example in game development classes in the future.

Posted: **Thu Mar 08, 2018 11:28 am**

Leisher wrote:
PUBG is going to be a "don't" example in game development classes in the future.

I don’t see anyone that streams it ever doing well. It’s like a long plane scene involving everyone parachuting out, followed by the entire squad getting shot 15 seconds after getting on to the map.

Posted: **Fri Mar 09, 2018 2:25 pm**

Pro team forfeits $12,000 prize for cheating.

The "cheat" was one of them using a bug to see through a wall, and although it led to no tactical info, it's still a cheat.

Get that? A game known for cheaters had to punish a team in its official tournament due to cheating, which was really them simply using an existing bug/glitch.

Fuck this game.