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gamescom 2017: Bluehole, Inc and Microsoft Announce Expanded Partnership for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
By Chang Han Kim, VP of Bluehole, Inc. and Executive Producer for PUBG posted on August 20, 2017 at 12:15 pm
Hello Xbox fans!
I'm CH Kim, Executive Producer of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) and VP at Bluehole. It is my pleasure to announce some exciting news for the Xbox player community around the world.
I have been working in the games industry developing online titles for 17 years now and have always wanted to develop a Battle Royale game. In 2016, after I was finishing up an MMORPG, I was given a chance to start a new project, so I decided to try something different and create the Battle Royale game that I always wanted to make.
While I was preparing for the project, I stumbled upon a guy calling himself PlayerUnknown – who we all know now as Brendan Greene – whom at that time was running Battle Royale mods on top of other games. I contacted Brendan right away and was glad to bring him into our project.
I have always thought that Battle Royale had an enormous potential in gaming, so I moved quickly to bring the standalone game that solely focuses on Battle Royale gameplay – an experience that I believed gamers wanted. The project started humbly with only 40 people on the team. We started from scratch and communicated closely with our community from a very early stage, receiving lots of user feedback during a pre-alpha, and two alpha tests in 2016. In March this year, we launched PUBG into Steam's Early Access and have continued to evolve our game ever since.
We pride ourselves on creating the first truly standalone Battle Royale game. The game's premise is simple, you are put into an island with 99 other strangers who compete with each other to scavenge for weapons and items in order to become the last man standing. The game mechanics are simple and intuitive, which made our game easy to dive into and fun to watch. We will continue evolving PUBG with our community so that it lives up to the attention it is getting, and we hope you will join us
Back in June at E3, we announced that PUBG will be launching exclusively on Xbox One in the Xbox Game Preview program in late 2017. Ever since then we have come to realize that we have a shared vision for the direction of the game with the Xbox team. This led to our decision on extending our partnership with Microsoft and I'm happy to announce it now includes Microsoft as the publisher for our PUBG on Xbox One.
By partnering with Microsoft, our team believes that we will be able to accelerate console development, while maintaining quality across all platforms, as well as giving us access to vast sales, marketing and publishing resources that will help us reach new fans to welcome to the PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds universe.
We are excited to continue and further strengthen our partnership with Microsoft and are super excited to meet the Xbox community. We will be launching exclusively on Xbox One in the Xbox Game Preview program later this year and we can't wait to see all the Xbox fans on the battlefield.
If not, then at this point you should at the very least be familiar with search engine technology. You just need to enter 4 letters.Am I supposed to know what PUBG stands for?
Am I supposed to know what PUBG stands for?
Fortnite is early access on PS4.
"all platforms"By partnering with Microsoft, our team believes that we will be able to accelerate console development, while maintaining quality across all platforms, as well as giving us access to vast sales, marketing and publishing resources that will help us reach new fans to welcome to the PlayerUnknowns Battlegrounds universe.
"all platforms"
Seems pretty clear to me.
The defense has arrived. But yea I thought the savior Phil hated those types of deals 😂😂
Am I supposed to know what PUBG stands for?
MTEI don't even know what this thread is supposed to mean.
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Its a multi studio project that has sold 7 million copies to date.
That excuse doesnt work here.
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They're wording is intentionally confusing = it's not a real exclusive.
PUBG is big, the developer studio isn't. The PC version is far from being done and what they showed from the Xbox versions looks really bad.
I bet MS approached them with a deal to help them release the game faster. Since they don't have the resources to develop the game for three platforms at once anyway, Bluehole said yes. Which was smart, I believe.
Microsoft can have one big game at least, while Bluehole gets the resources it needs.
Sony doesn't really care for now.
Its a multi studio project that has sold 7 million copies to date.
That excuse doesnt work here.
People need to stop expecting PlayStation announcements during Xbox conferences, that isn't what they are for. If a game isn't clearly announced as exclusive then it won't be.
Their wording is intentionally confusing = it's not a real exclusive.
PUBG is big, the developer studio isn't. The PC version is far from being done and what they showed from the Xbox version looked really bad.
I bet MS approached them with a deal to help them release the game faster. Since they don't have the resources to develop the game for three platforms at once anyway, Bluehole said yes. Which was smart, I believe.
Microsoft can have one big game at least, while Bluehole gets the resources it needs.
Sony doesn't really care for now.
I don't understand, does that mean they aren't making any money on sales?7 million copies of a game that isnt finished yet.
I really can't fathom having a job that allows you to use 'PoopieQueen' as a Twitter handle for PR work
Am I supposed to know what PUBG stands for?
When did they show the Xbox One version?
Console launch exclusive.
It isn't really that far from 1.0 release and what they showed was PC version. There is no XBO footage out there.
Really? I thought they showed it. So what version are they showing at gamescom? Will there be any footage of the Xbox version or what?
I don't understand, does that mean they aren't making any money on sales?
Switch release confirmed?"all platforms"
Seems pretty clear to me.
It's a Xbox One exclusive.
PC version will get canceled soon
It's not confusing. It will be on the other platforms at a later date.
Was Ark? Elite? Long Dark? Slime Rancher? Conan?
I mean, yeah Fortnite, No Man's Sky and SFVwere, but those were the exceptions as they also got retail releases at the same time./s i bought both day 1
OT: This is obviously just going to be exclusive during the Early Access phase.
Really? I thought they showed it. So what version are they showing at gamescom? Will there be any footage of the Xbox version or what?
It came after much after most of the early access updatesThe 1st one yeah. ARK is available on PS4 since last year, even though its official release date is August 29, 2017.
It came after much after most of the early access updates
It means their small team is still working on actually finishing the game. The sales are great, but they are already hard at work making the game their customers have already purchased. They dont need the added demands of trying to release on 3 platforms simultaneously. Microsoft is offering their own resources to help make an x1 version happen. Obviously once those two are done they will work on the ps4 version.
I agree. People make such a big deal out of this and I think it fools absolutely no one in the community.
If you want to play the game on console in 2017, you buy an Xbox. If you don't care or want to wait, just wait.
We get it, Microsoft and Sony suck when they do this. Repeat thread x 699.
Instead of Microsoft? Sure. But we'd be in the exact same boat, just different consoles. Though of course, way more Gaffers would be happy.So theoretically, if there wasn't an exclusive marketing deal in place, couldn't they have also gotten help from Sony to help with the added resources of releasing a PS4 version?
It amazes me that the console version of PUBG is getting as much attention from you guys as it is because I see another Team Fortress 2 scenario.
I don't think Console only gamers know what to expect with this game. They will buy it and the flip out that it wasn't at all what they expected.