PUBG locked the item exchange system for fear of being taken advantage of

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is suspending the exchange system because it believes players are selling items to a third website, PUBG Corp released a statement today explaining the decision. In general, players will still be able to sell items on the Steam Market during this period.

Steam’s Community Marketplace allows players to sell their valuables to others for real money. However, the number of items sold and the total value of the items are limited by the Steam Market. As a result, PUBG players took advantage of a loophole in the personal exchange system to allow them to bypass this limitation. According to PUBG Corp, this behavior abused the system.

Today’s release document doesn’t go into much detail, but PUBG Corp. has made it clear that this is only a temporary solution, and the personal exchange system will be reopened when they find a solution.

“The purpose of exchanging personal items is for friends to exchange items with each other at no extra cost. However, we have recently seen several players using this functionality to sell items to third parties,” the text reads. “Once we figure out how to prevent this abuse, the restriction will be lifted.”

Without a doubt, this limitation will definitely seriously affect the skin economy of the game, as well as the investors in it. However, this is a positive signal that PUBG Corp is very worried about its pet before bad influences from the outside. Recently, PUBG Corp made every effort to catch 15 hackers suspected of eating data feeds and selling hacking software for PUBG.

Efforts to prevent abuse of the exchange system and fraud in order to regain player confidence in the face of Fortnite’s success. According to the latest report, Fortnite Mobile, in its first week had 5 times the revenue of PUBG Mobile.

In general, PUBG is still very popular and certainly the hotness of the game will not be lost. In the latest update, PUBG has updated patch 12 with many changes related to maps, weapons, and new vehicles and weapons for the game.

Source: gamerant