PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (or PUBG for those who don’t like a mouthful) is officially out of Steam Early Access today! In honor of the big day, PUBG Corp. sent out a press release announcing their latest record: 30 million players across Steam and Xbox One’s Game Preview Program.
CH Kim, CEO of PUBG Corp. and Executive Producer announces this.
“The day has arrived. Nine months ago, we celebrated PUBG’s release into Early Access and began collaborating with our players to bring PUBG Corp.’s Battle Royale vision to life. Now we have a new milestone to celebrate: after a tremendously successful and instructive Early Access phase, we’re launching PUBG’s version 1.0 on PC, which will include our new desert map Miramar, vaulting and climbing, and all of the other features the community has been helping us refine. We’re excited to begin the second part of PUBG’s journey, and this is just the start of our commitment to the development of this game.
2017 has been a phenomenal year for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. With over 30 million players globally across PC platforms and the Xbox Game Preview program, we owe the success we’ve experienced this year to the community, whose passion has inspired all of us here at PUBG Corp. to make the very best game we can. We’ll continue to fine tune the Battle Royale experience and will introduce additional in-game content, including new crates, to become available in early 2018.”
Along with this, the developer also outlined the upcoming roadmap with a post on Steam. The post promises polished gunplay, sound, animations, increased network stability and anti-cheating measures. They’re also sharing in the celebration by giving anyone who loads the game in the next few weeks a free in-game shirt as seen below:
“After 1.0 is out, we will continue to uphold our open development principles and keep listening to your feedback, as we have done through Alpha, Beta and Early Access stages of the process. Reaching version 1.0 for us means establishing the basic structure for the smooth Battle Royale gameplay of our game. Balancing and polishing in terms of gunplay, sound, animations and other features and systems will continue after launch.
We’ve been working hard to address some of the most important issues for our community members and have seen some improvements recently that we wanted to share with you.
We’ve implemented two waves of adjustments to deal with server stability issues since PC 1.0 test build #3 hit our test servers. We estimate that there was around 50% decrease in stability issues experiences by players. However, we understand that this is not enough. We have identified various causes for the stability issues and are expecting progressive improvements going forward.”
To see the full post, check out their Steam forum here. Those who want to take the plunge into PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds for Xbox One and those looking to upgrade to the One X are in luck! New Xbox One Xs will be bundled with PUBG for a limited time.
