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Player Unknown's Battlegrounds
Player Unknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) is a Big Multiplayer Online FPS or TPS game, which is developed and published by PUBG cooperation, a subsidiary of South Korean video game Bluehole. It was released at December 20, 2017. The basic idea of this game derives from a Japanese film called Battle Royale which is directed by Kinji Fukasaku. After PUBG is released, it creates a passionate wave to play the Battle Royale style game, and PUBG becomes one of the most popular and successful game but also holds with a lot of critics.

Basic idea
In 1999, novelist Koushun Takami writes the story <>. In 2000, the director Kenta Fukassaku based on the novel created the dystopian thriller film, descripting a desperate world. The students who are chosen as the players are required to kill each other in a shrinking survive cycle in an isolated island. And only one person would survive. The moive is talking about the humanity and what choice people would make when they are facing the great threat to people such as killing people to survive, and what kind of choice we may make when decide to let your lover to live or yourself. This game is developed based on the setting about isolated island, shrinking life cycle, and the one winner elements.

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After the release of this game, the specific game ways: Collecting guns, fight against people for resource and for winning attract a lot of people in the world. PUBG makes US$11 million in the early 3 days after he release the game. “By February 2018, the game had sold over thirty million on Steam according to SteamSpy. The following month, Gabe Newell stated that the game was the third highest-grossing game of all time on the platform” From the Wikipedia. Meanwhile it takes the top sale in steam for several months. Because of the popularity of this game, the live streaming industry become prosperous. A lot of people not only play the game also see people plays in the live show. Later, PUBG also have their mobile version, it creates another crazy wave in 2018, since the game is free, and the hardware requirement of this game is very low, you only need a smart phone and you can play this game. “The mobile version in particular had over 100 million downloads by August 2018 and exceeded 225 million by October 2018” (From Wikipedia)

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Even though, it is the most popular game in 2018 and 2017. However it can not stop people getting used to this game and tried with the game mode. Meanwhile, there are more and more interesting games share the same Battle Royal idea such as Call Of Duty: Black ops 4 or Fortnite. For the first one, the high quality of the game with high technology and different skills attract a lot of people to play COD instead of PUBG. Meanwhile Fortnite combines the architecture building and FPS attracting a lot of people and the creative combo increase a lot of interest to play and innovate in the game.

Compare to the latter opponent, the PUBG shows lot of disadvantages. The limited maps really decrease the interest of people to play this game. After the crazy wave, PUBG can not add more new maps (in short time) and without the innovation and new elements PUBG quickly lose its players.

Meanwhile there are one more fatal disadvantage kills the kings of game – Bugs. Actually when people are crazy about the game, even the bugs are very interesting and make people have fun about the game. But when people start to calm down, the favorite bugs become the most annoying elements. However, Bluehole cannot fix them!

Cheater and Plug-in may become the most fatal drawbacks for people playing this game. Why people like to play these FPS or multiplayer games? Because it provides you a fair world to show your skills and fight against people. However the cheaters really ruin the game. 98% of cheaters come from China, and the plug-in spread all over the world. However a lot of Chinese people like to play this game. The inability to control cheater and block them makes people feel angry and desperate. Meanwhile, I have to say I don’t want to blame Bluehole too much, they have tried their best to prevent this happened. If you want to blame, you need to blame bad game players.