PUBG_Hawkinz

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.

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 ...

it shouldn't be so loud that players want to do that, yeah :)

Hey all, I just spoke to the creative team (who actually had already seen this post and were discussing it) and the videos should be ingame with a reduction in volume compared to the original.

This is either not working as intended, or may need to have the volume reduced further. The team is following up on this as we speak.

I know this has been an issue in past videos as well (last season we reduced the volume on live ASAP a week after release). Sorry!

It shouldn't come to players wanting to do that, but if they do, no you of course won't be banned for it

Not sure if that's possible technically with the way Steam API works, but it's something we can look into. I like the idea!

I spoke to the team about this and there are no plans to bring back trading. The temporary removal should now be seen as permanent, as we were unable to find a solution to the issues mentioned in the original announcement.

The main issues mentioned in the original post mostly hold strong still to this day, with additional issues of the impact to players who have their account compromised and items stolen. While the account is often recovered, it's less common to get items recovered.

This is something I'm going to discuss with the team further, especially as we look to enable 2 factor auth with SMS in the near future, but the expectation should be that it will not return.

Some went live April 9 and we plan to keep introducing more incremental improvements, although can't speak of an ETA right now!

I'm sure you've all got many more questions on some of the details we touched upon in the letter, so please drop them here and I'll do my best to answer!