PUBG: Battlegrounds – is going free-to-play on PC and consoles starting Jan 12th, 5 years after the game originally launched and popularized the Battle Royale genre.
What’s the catch? Well, new players will still have to pay up $13 if they want to play ranked. A one-off payment of $13 gets you “Battlegrounds plus”, which means you get access to ranked and custom matches, extra perks, items, XP boost, etc.
Note: you can download the game now but to play it you’ll have to wait until the servers are back online at 11pm PST on Jan 11, or 3am EST / 8am GMT on Jan 12.
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Can’t believe it’s been 5 years already. Feels like it was only yesterday when everyone and their mother were playing PUBG.
And Stadia?
Free to play on Stadia, no Pro required.
Took long enough
Too bad Stadia sucks balls. Plus, you kinda need Stadia Pro to even access Stadia.
You still have to pay $13 to make the game to play ranked, which is the real game. So this is more or less an indefinite demo. Also what are the people who payed for this getting? Because I already know they’re going to be steamed.
They get the “premium version”. Just like when CSGO went F2P.
Not everyone wants to play ranked btw.
No and No.
God, I think you’d have to pay me to play online games with microtransactions lol
Neverwinter: Calamity of Undeath Epic Pack is FREE at Epic Games Store
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/neverwinter–calamity-of-undeath-epic-pack
Six Sides of the World is currently FREE at IndieGala
https://freebies.indiegala.com/six-sides-of-the-world
BTW it’s not just ranked matches that are in the as you called it ” premium “. It’s also custom matches.
And while CSGO can get away with charging for locked content. They have a very large dedicated community. CSGO didn’t populate the ranked matches with bots.
And every time someone replies with an opinion, without fail, someone like you replies and adds nothing to the on going conversation. And while a small percentage of people don’t want to play ranked , that’s fine. But bad news, the rest of us do want to play ranked.
Correct, because even with Pro and depending on where you live in relation to a server, it still doesn’t work properly.
How the mighty have fallen.
Shoulda been free when fortnite did there modded battle royale. fortnight wasnt a battleroyale when it came out.