Skins boxes have become a matter of controversy among the PUBG community

Many players believe that the publisher has broken its promise when it comes to small purchases in the Early Access stage.

Although still in Early Access, the survival fighting game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is still quickly climbing to the high positions in the rankings in terms of revenue and player count. However, parallel with the success that PUBG has achieved are mixed opinions, complaints and bad reviews on Steam. Along with the policy of locking the player’s account if it is detected to “kick” the map, kill teammates (shoot to get acquainted), recently, with the launch of a money-losing costume box, the PUBG community has more controversial issues.

It’s also not surprising that the PUBG community reacted strongly to the idea of ​​selling items for real money in a game that hasn’t yet made it out of Early Access. This idea led to a wave of gamers, the gaming community felt uncomfortable (similar to the paid expansion version of Ark). There is also the fact that PUBG creator Brendan Greene stated a few months ago that there will be no real money purchases happening during PUBG’s Early Access. Whenever a game system switches from free to paid (after launch, Greene said “probably” there will be no more free skin boxes) it is bound to cause a lot of dissatisfaction.

Greene explains PUBG’s change to a paid skin box release on the Early Access system, citing an analysis of the August update: “Although our intention will still be to add full features into the game as we move into the actual release phase, we still need some testing to make sure it won’t crash and can be stable before we officially introduce the game to the community.”

For the most part, the community didn’t seem to pay much attention to Greene’s explanation. Although there have not been as many negative reviews for PUBG as some other games, PUBG has recently suffered from a number of comments from “almost positive” to “both positive and negative”. within the past 30 days. This number has also caused PUBG’s rating to drop from 75% to 65%. While there are still positive reviews for the game, recent reviews have mostly been criticisms of the paid skin box system.

“Even though I love the game, I can’t recommend it to anyone anymore because the publisher has broken their biggest promise in Early Access.” Quote from one of the comments about PUBG on Steam from a player who has played PUBG for 135 hours. “They said there will be no paid features until the game is officially released, but now they introduce keys, chests that need to be unlocked, things that have to be purchased with real money like CS: GO.”

“Don’t let Bluehole follow in the footsteps of other game publishers.” added another comment, “While this game is great and has the potential to be a staple in PC gaming, we have to let them know we won’t accept these.”

“The game is good and addictive but I don’t agree with the way they add a paid skin chest to the game.” A comment from someone who has been playing PUBG for 90 hours. “If they add a feature that also opens the chest like that but by plowing, I will recommend everyone to buy it.”

On the PUBG reddit forum, one of the most voted posts in the last 2 weeks was titled: “Say NO to REAL MONEY BUYING KEYs.”

“I don’t think the people with the skins are getting an advantage. I don’t think my playstyle is affected by other people having them, or that I don’t have them,” the post said. The poster complained that unlocking the schoolgirl outfit they wanted would require a huge cash investment since the chests only contain part of the outfit, not the whole set, and the randomness of the chests makes We open the replica instead of the outfit you may be looking for.

“I know some of you play games like CS:GO or anything like that and think a system like this makes sense because you get used to it, but it’s not,” the post continued. “In those games, you can also get free items. But in this game, it is impossible to get anything for free.”

There are currently about 2,500 comments on the post, including more than 14,000 votes. Not everyone agrees, remember: some point out that buying crates and keys is voluntary, and no one needs to actually buy keys for the crates. Others fear the bin system will lead, as it did for CS:GO, to a series of gambling sites, bot accounts, and scammers hoping to cash in on valuable items. .

One redditor fully agrees with trading in the game, even in Early Access, and is completely willing to spend money. “I completely agree with the sale of costumes” commented comment. “But I am totally against selling skins using RNG methods like crates and keys. Simply sell me the full outfit for $15.”

And, for some people who haven’t bought PUBG yet, this controversy may lead to some hesitation about buying it. “I have been following this game and was planning to buy it after its release,” commented one comment, “but here I see the birth of the regular EA model.

“Everybody welcomed this as ‘EA did the right thing’,” continued the comment, “but I’m still skeptical, because that’s what they always say.”

Source: PCgamer