Thousands of negative reviews hit PUGB following the in-game ads

Some Chinese PUGB players are facing the lag issues due to the in-game third party advertisement. Resulting in thousands of negative reviews on the game's steam page.

[NicSage]

Kung Pow is what I call these reviews. I have to say the best platform for making your voice heard is the PC. I love my PS4 and xbone but PC reviews on steam get things done is like 15 minute. No joke. See how fast the response is.

[Cmv38]

Which is a gift and a curse. But the good out weighs the bad.

[Eonjay]

Agreed. Got some console guys threatening to kill themselves if we complain to their Gods. PC gamers understand that they are the ones with the power.

[MrFisher21]

You are the joke to my laughter. I appluad you. Peasant.

[NohansenBoy]

Indeed. Anyone who has ever tried controlling the PC market has failed every time. Not even MS can get a small grasp on controlling the PC gaming market despite their OS being used and it would be a disaster if they tried going closed source with Windows.

[FullmetalRoyale]

Yeah I play on console, but you aren’t kidding with these reviews working on PC. You guys just demand respect, and I respect that.

[NohansenBoy]

This is why I love PC gaming so much. I can control my own experience and no one can tell me what to do and publishers/devs know that we pay their bills so trying to screw us over in any way is a huge risk not worth taking.

[RommyReigns]

From Stream Sniping to breaking the 'no microtransaction' promise, to the lag and lack of optimisation, and now this, which in itself is barebones with a sheer lack of content even for 'early access' (well it was a barebones and at the time lack of content game which won the GOTY at the TGAs last year so no surprise others think they can get away with it as well). With such debacles I'm surprised people are still putting up with playing this fad.

[BlindGuyMcSqueazy]

Stream sniping: not their fault. Can be done in every game. Plus Streamers can opt to put a delay in their streams.

Microtransaction promise: they never said they wouldn't do it. They just said it wouldn't be part of early access. Either way it's all just cosmetic shit. It doesn't change the game whatsoever.

Lag: could be on your end. Thousands are playing every day with no issue.

Optimisation: I've played on a low end GPU and a 1080ti. Game has always run well for me. And many others arent having problems.

Sure it's barebones. Its early access. There's a whole new map on its way. I've got 150 hrs logged and still have been everywhere on the current map.

[Liqu1d]

People will drop it quick when something better releases.

[Godmars290]

What are talking about: nothing has come of this yet.

More than likely the company doing this will either try to fix the lag issue, or the ads will be removed temporarily then tried again. The only thing that's happening now is that people are complaining and you're acting like that's never happened before.

[Relientk77]

Yeah, can't argue with that. When games on steam get bombarded with negative reviews, we all hear about it on game sites lol

[nawaz10]

Exactly!!

[zaanan]

Hey, just a thought: who is PUBG's biggest competitor right now? Fortnite BR. Which is a f2p, something ads are normally associated with. Could this be a dry-run on Bluehole's part to test the viability of f2p, to more directly compete with Fortnite?

[WePlayDirty]

GG PUBG.

[bluefox755]

Play Fortnite. Fewer issues, more fun. Oh, and it's free.

[tee_bag242]

What's that?! I can't hear you over all the fun we're having in PUBG!

[Leeroyw]

It's pronounced PUGB!!!!!!

[psyxon]

Too bad it's garbage.

[NordicRainy]

lol at the PUBG fanboys who got triggered by this comment.

[ALMGNOON]

well said.

[Frodosmugins]

It's not free.

[ShadowWolf712]

The Battle Royale mode is, and the full game will be next year.

[greywolf39]

This game is getting worse and worse, week after week. Seems like devs wanna shut down the game. That is what you get for paying and praising a game in early access. Gameing in 2017

[BlindGuyMcSqueazy]

How is it getting worse? There are near weekly updates that continuously improve and add to the game. If you're going to shit on something don't be vague, provide examples.

[nowitzki2004]

$30 and already played 100's of hours. I think it was worth it lol.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

Personally, I think the worst thing about PUBG is that it's heavily optimized, so it runs like crap on everyone's system. I think they're getting a bit full of themselves thinking they've made the genre and kicking up a stink with Fortnight.

[Jaypi03]

Really? This just strikes me as greed on Pubg's part, the game already has millions of users, so 30 x million is at LEAST 30 mil minimum, yet somehow it's STILL not enough to the point where they need in game ads? I see small indie games with lesser player bases managing to make multiplayer games and have them last without ads but you're telling me they can't?

This is why people will just play Fortnite battle royale, not only is it FREE, there's no ads. At this point Fortnite should just put "Not only free to play, also 100% ad free!" as a tag. They let the money go to their head, this is why we can't have nice things, because there's always someone trying to take an mile when given an inch.

I don't even own Pubg, I was thinking about buying it, but at this point, i'll be more likely to play Fortnite only cause it's free.

[Frodosmugins]

Battle Royale is free but the coop game is not and coop is much more fun than Battle Royale.

[notachance]

the coop will be free too next year

[zerocarnage]

Yeah the main game to fortnite is the real cream and to be honest it's where I stick at, the battleground is a nice add on but I love all the development of my characters, storm bases, resourcing, doing all the different types of modes and so on.

To me fortnite doesn't need to depend on one game mode as it has tons of different modes and challenges, that is what sets it apart from pubg.

[Frodosmugins]

Yes but if you want to play now you must pay.

And yes coop is very good. Made by GOW team with great coop game experience.

[demonicale]

It's called "Business".

[kevnb]

theyve sold 13 million copies at 29.99, valve takes 30% ... So 272 909 000 in their pockets.

[shepherdzeMan]

thausands..... LOL

[subtenko]

Fortnite FTW! (Battle Royal) still waiting on the other free half

[Dragonscale]

Pubg? More like posg lol

[OffRoadKing]

This is what happens when you over-hype a game too early.

[knickstr]

Where do I go to put in bad reviews for n4g for their ads now?

[Liqu1d]

Contact [email protected]

They'll probably ignore your complaints though.

[2600Thunder]

The PUBG people are not developers and they simply designed a level using purchased assets, which doesnt make their game any less of a game, but the problem came because they have been unable to evolve their game (the common complaint from the big audience streamers).

They did do work were they could, making it a cash machine. Now evolving your game in the gaming industry means publishers applying a mobile model and cashing out with ads and microtransactions, especially now that bigger devs are bringing real competition. PUBG is just yet another game becoming AAA mafia targeted victim of the mobile infection.

[Jon_Targaryen]

I die too quickly to see these ads lol

[Apocalypze]

Fornite FTW!!!!

[yomfweeee]

This is the 2nd mistake these guys have made in recent weeks. I hope the pressure isn't getting to them. Ads in a paid game.... have some common sense.

[ThinkThink]

Is this only in China?

[badz149]

" I hope the pressure isn't getting to them"

doesn't look like it but GREED sure has gotten to their head!

[The_Kills]

Ad's? ... Remember the "the success has gotten to our heads" ?

Bro this is the stuff you seen in disgusting mobile games.

[Sgt_Slaughter]

The snowball started rolling down the hill slowly when they got involved in the Fortnite scuffle, and now it's steadily rolling.

[Rachel_Alucard]

I can't believe they made a company based around a game that hasn't even left EA and all they've done is add Microtransactions, ads, and ports. Trying to play this game with anything less then 10 gbs of RAM is a death sentence and they've done nothing to fix any of these optimization problems.

[quent]

Its Crazy how quickly greed overcomes people and that there's no limit to it, the IP is already worth over 6 bil, but now we also need ads in there, chop chop

[Elda]

LOL!

[zerocarnage]

Fortnite is the way to go I've played it for ages and it's a very good fun game. Ever since pubg devs greatly went on the whinge and bitch attitude and there players tried to do the same about fortnite, pubg has been on a rapid slope of death it seems.

Although it has created definitely attention for the two games, fortnite seems to be gaining the extra success and pubg seems to be getting a lot of negative hate from all the attention.

[Firehazard5]

I see no problem with in game ads if they are creative (placed on billboards, in game objects). The way I see it, game companies are struggling to make money. More money for devs = a healthier working environment and in the end better games for the consumer. More money in the pot inspires teams with great ideas to work hard to share them with us, the gamers. It's a win win for everyone.