The PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Development and Community Team, sometimes called BlueHole, have announced that PUBG will no longer receive regular weekly or monthly updates. This will come as a bit of a shock to the community, who have by now grown used to regular patches and patch notes appearing like clockwork every week or month for the game. The team however are assuring fans that Battlegrounds will still be receiving updates, just not on as regular a schedule as before.
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It's easy to forget, with it currently being the most popular multiplayer game on Steam, that PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is still only in Early Access and is in constant development. That's why it is so good to see constant updates being applied to the game, and why the decision to cut them out is so worrying.
The team explain why they made this move:
"We’ve found internally that being rushed to finish certain features, and having shorter QA test time between pushing updates caused more issues than it solved in regards to maintaining a high standard of quality. We want to put our best content out, and ensure that everything we do is making the game more enjoyable with every update."
Which all sounds very reasonable. Deadlines can be useful, but more QA time for updates will certainly make those updates a better quality. But how often will those 'better quality' updates drop?
The team then explain what we should expect for the future of patches and patch notes within PUBG:
"We want to thoroughly and truthfully emphasize that this will have absolutely no bearing on how much content we deliver, or how much we work on the development of the game. We will still inform our community with public patch notes outlining changes we’ve made with each update... we are still on-track to release our game as per our updated timeline, and we want to emphasize to you that we are not winding down the development, or complacent. We have a lot of work to do, and we want this game to be released with as many fun, rich, enjoyable features and mechanics as possible."
We'll certainly still continue our PUBG Patch Notes updates whenever they become available, but it seems now they won't be as regular. There's something slightly sad about that.
But what do you think guys? Are you sad of the end of regular patches for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds or are you happy with them taking longer to make them more substantial or of a better quality? Let us know in the comments below.
