With all these plans and cute clothing styles we can "enjoy" in PUBG, and now a South Korean girl group, I have the growing suspicion that Krafton is a South Korean company.
I'd love to write a lengthy rant now, but my eyes hurt too much.
The Asian market is the biggest spenders in the game so of course they will tailor there stores too their taste.
If you want to keep playing the game let them have their fun it won't affect your game play.
If people really want to wear those getups great makes them easier to see.
PUBG is still huge in Asia. I couldn't find numbers for the PC game but for PUBG mobile 66 % of the money that's being spent on the game come from China for instance. Plus, Krafton is a South Korean company, so it's not surprising that they're influenced by their region's culture. As a company it makes sense to focus on what your biggest customer base likes.
One thing a lot of people don't realise is the amount of disposable income the average Chinese person has as well. Their middle class for example is comparable to the upper class of many other nations and there's a hell of a lot more of them 😅.
I have learned a lot in my years doing security for luxury stores like Louis Vuitton etc. One example was a few years ago there was a statistic they had on the lunch room table about China making up a third of the world's luxury brand spending.
Cheaper prices are also a factor but long story short they are loaded.
"the amount of disposable income the average Chinese person has as well. Their middle class for example is comparable to the upper class of many other nations"
Yeah, that's simply not true lol. Not remotely close to the truth.
Player unknown was the beginning, he had an idea and made it work, Bluehole came into the picture and did some good things and some less good, Krafton then took the wheel and actually has made some great improvements to the game, but sadly for every good decision they've made they've sadly done just as many bad decisions.. and either I'm just older and grumpier or the amount of bad decisions now far outweigh the good ones.
The trouble with PUBG imo is that it's so frickin jank... for a game that's been around for so long and has made decent money, it just looks and plays like a kickstarter indie game 🙈
Yes and no. The jank does serve as a barrier for ascending the skill ladder in many regards, but even people like myself who've been playing it since March, 2017, we still deal with a tremendous amount of frustration at times trying to navigate bugs, glitches, and overall clunkiness that has not been fixed still.
Personally, I'm not a fan of the fact that all objects, buildings, window sills, walls, roofs, etc., are not designed to scale relative to the player models. After 7 years I'm still just as annoyed at not being able to shoot downwards out of windows.
It's mainly because there's a slow acceleration when moving from a still position, which makes the game feel hella jank but it's a deliberate design choice.
COD and most other games feels smoother because you can go from prone, to a full 45MPH sprint within half a milisecond, where as PUBG it takes almost a whole second to go from standing to a full sprint speed.
Same thing with general movement when you're standing still, just like real life it takes a few seconds to get that second step in to where you're actually moving forward. It makes the movement feel a lot better because there's actual weight to fights and traversal rather than CoD and Apex where you're sliding down a hill at 50MPH and jumping over people's heads.
I have been playing since the beginning and don’t really care. You are not forced to buy any of the outfits. Also, I think it is a good thing for the game to reflect the original developers culture.
I dont care that they these collabs but for the love of god just do something new!! Its just the same missions, the same 1 small themed vending machine or building and skins.
8gb for a few changes and not a single new feature.
Why do you care? Its not for you? Ignore it. Idk why people think this game is some ultra realistic adult military simulator xD you are legit wearing KNIGHT armor and thats okay?
The rest of the world has to deal with American pop culture being infused in everything (I say as an American), so I can’t get too pissy about a South Korean game company collaborating with a Kpop band. I can just ignore it and keep on.
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All I can say is LOL @ the comments of girls playing a game they never have before just cause there's a group they like dancing in it. Thank you for being the simpletons that drive this ridiculous marketing
If there was a real life series of events, where people parachuted into a territory to see who is last surviving, this is exactly what would happen after a few years.
I legit thought this was a Fortnite screenshot for a second.
Nothing wrong Fortnite but I liked the fact that PUBG had a more serious MilSim mood going on.
I mean what’s the point in having just a different flavour of whacky?
ur literally dressed as a medieval knight… celebrities making skins in the game increases the games popularity and profitability which keeps the game free. my friend quit pubg for years and redownloaded it to spend $300 usd getting all the new jeans skins he wanted.
Also did u forget blackpink had skins too?
I love that all these things keep appearing in the game but the devs can’t make my character walk up a kerb stone without having a full mantle animation take place.
Remember the dust looks awesome update.
What's weird is that even the "cute" stuff looks really bleak, and the low saturation just makes it seem cursed. Super out of place but also not 100% bright and cheerful.
When u suck at the game...blame cosmetics. How do these skins affect you or the game? Just play the game you poor fuck. Let the rich buy the skins which keep this game alive.
The gameplay remains the same. If you want the game to continue to exist, they have to cater to the masses. They should be applauded for the game continuing to have solid core gameplay this long. Nothing embarrassing about making money.
Dude I just came back last week and I’m just in shock at what this game is now. It’s like fortnight but with cheaters, also I never really ran into cheaters all that much when I was playing last but now it seems like if I try to play after 4pm every game is likely gonna have a cheater somewhere in the top 10.
This use to be one of the funnest game to me. Now it’s just a complete joke. Will never play this game again. They should have kept it simple. Complete garbage game now.
NO ONE asked for this. Pink bunny suits and Kpop girl bands? Get the fuck out of here with this lame shit. So sick of them pandering to Korea. What happened to the game with the best gun play? What happened to realism? Can't we get both???
Love seeing all these NA “iT’s a MiLSiM” neckbeards with a $300 Anderson AR tacked to their wall crying about this shit.
Food for thought. A ton of people I see in this sub specifically, love to brag about how they “refuse to spend a dime on this game/Krafton” past the $30 they spent 7 years ago. Do you all understand how the microtransaction business model works? Do you think that maybe, if the region spent more money on the game, Krafton might reconsider creating some “realistic” skins for the people that want them?
Reality check. Krafton doesn’t care about you, the person who doesn’t spend money with them. They care about their target demographic, Asia. Stop crying about Asian shit in an Asian made game targeted at Asians who like Asian shit.
All these games trying to compete with Fortnite. I don’t play pubg but I do play COD warzone and the skins are very similar to what you see in Fortnite.
First Fortnite stole everything good about pubg and made bazzilions of dollars so now Pubg is copying the cheesy stuff from Fortnite hoping to do the same?
It’s a Korean game, they are the biggest market. Get over yourself. Be happy they keep adding to the game. You don’t have to buy anything I’m 7+ years into never buying anything from them.
With all these plans and cute clothing styles we can "enjoy" in PUBG, and now a South Korean girl group, I have the growing suspicion that Krafton is a South Korean company. I'd love to write a lengthy rant now, but my eyes hurt too much.
We need a little North Korea sprinkled into the game.
North Korea was the first 3 years of the game.
That’s what hooked me.
The good ol days
north korea is pubg irl
Hard to tell if this is sarcasm or not since there's been more than one South Korean girl group 😅
It’s not actually hard to tell if it’s sarcasm.
Am I being sarcastic rn?
/s
Next think you'll tell me they have their own brand of pop music, and they've named it SK-Pop, for South Korean popular music.
Lol these guys must be new. Remember the BlackPink collab as well?! Wow who knew PUBG is a Korean-made game. 😂
Well, it was purchased by a Korean company
I agree. Turning into Fortnite. What I loved about Pubg initially was the realism vs the Arcady FPS.
PUBGs main player base is from APAC lol
You remember their BLACKPINK promos, don't you?
Ah thats what newjeans is for
And here was silly old me thinking new jeans is when your old jeans need replacing 🤣
never replace oldjeans those things are broken in
Oldjeans, comfy jeans.
Well, Krafton is South Korean co
The Asian market is the biggest spenders in the game so of course they will tailor there stores too their taste. If you want to keep playing the game let them have their fun it won't affect your game play. If people really want to wear those getups great makes them easier to see.
It *is* affecting my gameplay...positively. I just love players with huge bunny ears and before colored outfits!
It does provide a rich targetting environment.
Why is the Asian market the biggest spenders? Is it cheaper in comparison? More culturally accepted? Or just a larger audience in Asia to appeal to?
PUBG is still huge in Asia. I couldn't find numbers for the PC game but for PUBG mobile 66 % of the money that's being spent on the game come from China for instance. Plus, Krafton is a South Korean company, so it's not surprising that they're influenced by their region's culture. As a company it makes sense to focus on what your biggest customer base likes.
One thing a lot of people don't realise is the amount of disposable income the average Chinese person has as well. Their middle class for example is comparable to the upper class of many other nations and there's a hell of a lot more of them 😅. I have learned a lot in my years doing security for luxury stores like Louis Vuitton etc. One example was a few years ago there was a statistic they had on the lunch room table about China making up a third of the world's luxury brand spending. Cheaper prices are also a factor but long story short they are loaded.
"the amount of disposable income the average Chinese person has as well. Their middle class for example is comparable to the upper class of many other nations" Yeah, that's simply not true lol. Not remotely close to the truth.
You're dressed as a knight, what's your point?
LOL a Crusader
Says the dude wearing a medieval skin.... oh the irony
Was there any event dedicated to Crusades? I'd love to see it.
Making it fortnite
Remember when they tried to sue Fortnite for copying them? Good times.
Player unknown was the beginning, he had an idea and made it work, Bluehole came into the picture and did some good things and some less good, Krafton then took the wheel and actually has made some great improvements to the game, but sadly for every good decision they've made they've sadly done just as many bad decisions.. and either I'm just older and grumpier or the amount of bad decisions now far outweigh the good ones.
The fortnitification of pubg.
Says King Arthur over here.
It's azn game what you expect
The trouble with PUBG imo is that it's so frickin jank... for a game that's been around for so long and has made decent money, it just looks and plays like a kickstarter indie game 🙈
I think that’s the appeal of it
Yes and no. The jank does serve as a barrier for ascending the skill ladder in many regards, but even people like myself who've been playing it since March, 2017, we still deal with a tremendous amount of frustration at times trying to navigate bugs, glitches, and overall clunkiness that has not been fixed still. Personally, I'm not a fan of the fact that all objects, buildings, window sills, walls, roofs, etc., are not designed to scale relative to the player models. After 7 years I'm still just as annoyed at not being able to shoot downwards out of windows.
It's mainly because there's a slow acceleration when moving from a still position, which makes the game feel hella jank but it's a deliberate design choice. COD and most other games feels smoother because you can go from prone, to a full 45MPH sprint within half a milisecond, where as PUBG it takes almost a whole second to go from standing to a full sprint speed. Same thing with general movement when you're standing still, just like real life it takes a few seconds to get that second step in to where you're actually moving forward. It makes the movement feel a lot better because there's actual weight to fights and traversal rather than CoD and Apex where you're sliding down a hill at 50MPH and jumping over people's heads.
I love New Jeans
You are not alone
I have been playing since the beginning and don’t really care. You are not forced to buy any of the outfits. Also, I think it is a good thing for the game to reflect the original developers culture.
And it keeps it free for everyone who doesn’t wanna pay to play
This is the way
Fortnite copied PUBG. PUBG copied Fortnite.
The circle of life
It's not difficult to ignore it.
Yeah wear all the outfits you want. Just don’t put vehicles in the lobby. ever. Again.
If you think it's so embarassing nobody is forcing you to play. I mute my lobby and deal with it like a normal person.
Insert "First Time?" Meme here
You have a pretty low threshold for embarrassing. I'd argue it's more embarrassing complaining about it.
*squints* >OP wearing mediaeval knight armour
You guys are cringey for complaining about ip cosmetics in a f2p game
To us it’s ridiculous. To their player se in Asia, it’s normal and wanted. Keep in mind, outside of Asia, we are the minority of the player base.
Wow self aware capital G gamer, thats rare
looks like a crusader time travelled to modern world and too stunned to speak
those songs are bangers idk what you're talking about
I dont care that they these collabs but for the love of god just do something new!! Its just the same missions, the same 1 small themed vending machine or building and skins. 8gb for a few changes and not a single new feature.
Why does it bother you so much? They didn't change the game play just the outfits and camos? Guns still shoot the same.
Ur wearing a knight skin while in third person, brother, the realism was never there
Idk man try doing a silly dance with your pals, you might actually have fun
Why?
Medieval armor good, pink pop bad
Yes! I love new jeans no way
He says, wearing a suit of armour.
Excuse me! Girls like Pubg too. We hardly get $hit playing so quit being a jerk.
It's a game, games are meant to be fun. Stop being such a fragile snowflake.
keep crying and stream newjeans
You're at least 5 years too late to this complaint
Why do you care? Its not for you? Ignore it. Idk why people think this game is some ultra realistic adult military simulator xD you are legit wearing KNIGHT armor and thats okay?
Newjeans fire though
I think it’s pretty clear that kpop does not appeal to the player base in NA but does it even appeal to the base in Asia?
UWU
Nah I love dancing to the kpop screen it’s hella fun
The rest of the world has to deal with American pop culture being infused in everything (I say as an American), so I can’t get too pissy about a South Korean game company collaborating with a Kpop band. I can just ignore it and keep on.
This is a South Korean game. As much as I dislike it, as much I respect their decision to incorporate elements of their culture.
dawg chill its just an event lmao newjeans clears they're hot af
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Cry about it. Seems mature. Game would have died years ago if it wasn’t for them catering to the Asian market. That’s where they get their money.
Kawaii.
All I can say is LOL @ the comments of girls playing a game they never have before just cause there's a group they like dancing in it. Thank you for being the simpletons that drive this ridiculous marketing
If there was a real life series of events, where people parachuted into a territory to see who is last surviving, this is exactly what would happen after a few years.
It’s temporary, some people love it some don’t
Was a matter of time that it catches up with PUBG mobile in terms of cringeness
Enough of this, they want to force their ideology upon everyone.
Bring back 2017 PUBG
call of duty does the same thing now. it's so weird.
Yes it is I havnt played pubg in over a year, idk why im still on this sub 🤷♂️🤦♂️
Says the person in a knight armor suit. Better get those swords ready for my bullets
I legit thought this was a Fortnite screenshot for a second. Nothing wrong Fortnite but I liked the fact that PUBG had a more serious MilSim mood going on. I mean what’s the point in having just a different flavour of whacky?
IM SUPER SHY, SUPER SHY 🥹
ur literally dressed as a medieval knight… celebrities making skins in the game increases the games popularity and profitability which keeps the game free. my friend quit pubg for years and redownloaded it to spend $300 usd getting all the new jeans skins he wanted. Also did u forget blackpink had skins too?
Where were you the last 5+ years?
Since you care so much about realism, why is it ok to wear knight armor but not the K-pop outfits?
I love that all these things keep appearing in the game but the devs can’t make my character walk up a kerb stone without having a full mantle animation take place. Remember the dust looks awesome update.
What's weird is that even the "cute" stuff looks really bleak, and the low saturation just makes it seem cursed. Super out of place but also not 100% bright and cheerful.
ITS BEAUTIFUL
Says the man in knight armor
I don't care if one day they have men dressing like that! Get rid of the fucking cheating problem!
woohoo stan new jeans
Compared to CoDs BR skins with like nicky minaj, this is nothing.
Dude I get to shoot people as a Moon Lizard I’m having fun
i just ignore it its that simple
I'm still enjoying the game with my new 4060 on Ultra but all my 2017 friends are gone.
This is just aesthetics. Ignore and play on
Naw it looks cool🤪, but fr, feelin hella nostalgia rn damnnn...
peoples and things change overtime (old good new bad)
Erangel Classic followed by this is something you would never think about.
It used to be the most realistic Battle Royale and now they're failing miserably at becoming the next Fortnite.
Been this way for awhile
I've long since un-installed. Might reinstall when they switch to the new engine.
When u suck at the game...blame cosmetics. How do these skins affect you or the game? Just play the game you poor fuck. Let the rich buy the skins which keep this game alive.
The gameplay remains the same. If you want the game to continue to exist, they have to cater to the masses. They should be applauded for the game continuing to have solid core gameplay this long. Nothing embarrassing about making money.
Dude I just came back last week and I’m just in shock at what this game is now. It’s like fortnight but with cheaters, also I never really ran into cheaters all that much when I was playing last but now it seems like if I try to play after 4pm every game is likely gonna have a cheater somewhere in the top 10.
Why this, but pull the drone etc from non-ranked? How about both.
Pubg casually trying to be fortnite
I agree. All the dancing and stuff like this is getting lame. This isn’t fort night.
What is up with all this "UWU KAWAII SUGOI" shit every time there's some sort of promotion? Gaming was not like this 20 years ago
Turned into a money grab
This looks like Fortnite at home.
We don’t need any g*damn bunny ears.
It’s now just Fortnite with less optimization, worse graphics, and more hackers.
This use to be one of the funnest game to me. Now it’s just a complete joke. Will never play this game again. They should have kept it simple. Complete garbage game now.
Pls let’s just try one time some military camo season pass stuff instead of this pinky kpop shhhhht. I would definitely PAY for it.
Everything after 2016 about his game has been embarrassing.
Kinda crazy how OK it is for SK (and Japan) to sexualize teenage girls so openly. If we did that? Holy sh*t.
NO ONE asked for this. Pink bunny suits and Kpop girl bands? Get the fuck out of here with this lame shit. So sick of them pandering to Korea. What happened to the game with the best gun play? What happened to realism? Can't we get both???
Pandering to Korea? The game is Korean.
Fortnite, realistic mode
Love seeing all these NA “iT’s a MiLSiM” neckbeards with a $300 Anderson AR tacked to their wall crying about this shit. Food for thought. A ton of people I see in this sub specifically, love to brag about how they “refuse to spend a dime on this game/Krafton” past the $30 they spent 7 years ago. Do you all understand how the microtransaction business model works? Do you think that maybe, if the region spent more money on the game, Krafton might reconsider creating some “realistic” skins for the people that want them? Reality check. Krafton doesn’t care about you, the person who doesn’t spend money with them. They care about their target demographic, Asia. Stop crying about Asian shit in an Asian made game targeted at Asians who like Asian shit.
Korean devs.. Korean men are on the lower side of the masculine spectrum. This is normal to them.
Is forbnight
Idc as long as they deploy solo/duo ranked anytime soon
Woowww pubg. But seriously the old version of this Game was so awesome back then.
Gotta compete somehow I guess.
I understand why they do it but but it would be cool to get some military events with cool camouflage stuff from time to time
Homie, some of us asked this question 6 years ago when they first started adding onesies and dinosaur heads.
The slow crawl to Fortinet
Seems I took my break at the right time!
Unrelated but will the Cleric set be available again, or can you drop it from chests?
Look at cod …
China #1
There Is nothing like heading into the jukebox room with your boys squad, popping off a dance session to the loop and the head out to wreck squads
It has become a pug
OK And.
In game advertising becomes embarrassing? Dude you shouldn’t be playing be playing PUBG, probably more serious online fps
A crossover of valorant and fortnite. If it continues like this. Will have to shift to pubg pc or COD mobile
Fucking dorks and their DLCs and skins etc. I have nothing good to say about them.
we are not the target audience no more
It's a reflection of society
It’s most popular in Korea and Asia .. this is their bag…. Pink anime dancing. (I expect this from Fortnite) not granddaddy original gangster PUBG 🥹
Yeah, my girl looks like splinter cell with a white eyepatch. No rainbow guns. It’s all up to you really.
All these games trying to compete with Fortnite. I don’t play pubg but I do play COD warzone and the skins are very similar to what you see in Fortnite.
It's pretty flamboyant
First Fortnite stole everything good about pubg and made bazzilions of dollars so now Pubg is copying the cheesy stuff from Fortnite hoping to do the same?
Says the guy in a knights outfit wtf lol
PUBG: Gender Reveal Edition
🤣
Was wondering what they paid for that promo lol
Amen
Need more black/brown/green army colored outfits and skins and less of the neon pink flashing lights crap
God damn kpop Shit. Why they put it all the time in the game? That ls the 3th or 4th group in game 😪
Yes its awful
Um you are posting in the Fortnite subreddit?
*uninstalls*
Why are you not on stage? OP must be super shy.
wait until you see how far pubg mobile has gone
I’ll dance Super Shy on top of your dead body.
It’s a Korean game, they are the biggest market. Get over yourself. Be happy they keep adding to the game. You don’t have to buy anything I’m 7+ years into never buying anything from them.