[2020] Devs adding bots to the game under the guise of helping new players. When in reality the player base has gotten so emaciated that they need them to fill lobbies.......

The end is not near, getting flashbacks to Y2K and that calendar sh*t again guys, come on.

Bots will help with queues, they'll also allow us to ensure better queues for comp mode and potentially explore queue options with more choice, especially for smaller regions.

At the same time, it will greatly help new, more casual and less experienced players as well.

To be honest, new player retention for PUBG isn't great - there are many reasons for that, we need to polish the overall experience of course, no one likes bugs, but a huge part of that churn for new players is due to how difficult the game is.

Bringing in and keeping new players will actually greatly help the longevity of PUBG and at the same time, the hardcore players and ones who want to play more seriously will be able to play comp mode without bots. Bear in mind as well, there'll be less ratio of bots the more you play.

This really should be a win-win. Better experience for newer players, familiar experience for existing players, and players who want to grind and play more hardcore can do comp mode all day with no bots.

Hope that makes sense, we're not trying to hide under the guise of anything, but rather focusing our explanation on our main intentions, rather than a positive side affect.

Cheers guys

I definitely respect people being unhappy at this change, but I do want to try explain why we did it and what it means for players.