PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is so damn fun.
I even built up my hype by waiting until I was done with my exams and stuff and wasn't disappointed at all


Since I'm studying CS and kinda wanna get into game development, I've made my thoughts on the whole monetization process that's been negatively received around here.

Even though they've made a lot of money through the purchases, they are still just a one-time purchase, even though the servers are expected to run 24/7 so everybody can have a lag-free experience. In reality, this doesn't work together without sustaining the servers which you need money for, so I guess that's why they put in monetization of - skins -

I really don't get why people are so mad about this since you all want to play this game and I haven't read much negative about the gameplay which is how it should be done.
Sure, they said "no monetization until we're out of Early Access" - but nobody can really estimate how much money it'd cost to sustain servers and pay workers and so on when they wrote that text.
It's only cosmetics. CSGO does it, Dota 2 does it, League of Legends does it... It's an old thing that kept games you love up and running.

PUBG is a great game, it does many design aspects right.
The sound design is phenomenal and, even though I'm running a fairly old system (see below), I'm getting a steady ~60 FPS once everything loaded. Sure, there can be dips into the 40's, but nothing unplayable. Before you bash me on that - I don't classify anything that doesn't run on at least 120fps playable - usually. But since this is a slow game, 40 fps are enough for running and spotting. Sure, when shooting, I'd love to have 60fps.. But that's nothing I can nitpick. The game is in early access, not very old, and very unoptimized, still. But I'm almost sure that it'll still change for the better.

The Devs of this game are very dedicated. The day after I started playing, they rolled out the first person servers which introduced a lot of lag. They worked day and night to figure out the problem and eventually fixed it in a reasonable time.
Same with Squad First Person - the drop-bug was bugging (heh) me and my friends, but it got fixed very very quickly.

• Guns are good, can't wait for more to be added, obviously
  
• Modes are good, even though I dont play third person anymore for obvious reasons
  
• Performance.. it works, but hey, it's early access!
  
• Skin-monetization is alright, I don't hate it - I won't buy anything, but I can live with it
  
• I personally have encountered 1 possible cheater. While I think that that can happen, it definitely hasn't been more than 1
  
• The game is incredibly fun to play with friends, I absolutely don't regret buying it

Really the only thing I can nag about is performance and crashes.. But again, it's early access!

Specs:
CPU: Intel core i5 2500k @ 4.2GHz
GPU: AMD R9 280X 3GB
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR3 1333MHz
I guess I could mention that it's installed on my HDD, which makes loading in the houses at the airplane drop sometimes problematic, but yeah, that's okay with me

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is so damn fun. I even built up my hype by waiting until I was done with my exams and stuff and wasn't disappointed at all [h1]If you just want the review, scroll down into the review part[/h1] Since I'm studying CS and kinda wanna get into game development, I've made my thoughts on the whole monetization process that's been negatively received around here. Even though they've made a lot of money through the purchases, they are still just a one-time purchase, even though the servers are expected to run 24/7 so everybody can have a lag-free experience. In reality, this doesn't work together without sustaining the servers which you need money for, so I guess that's why they put in monetization of - skins - I really don't get why people are so mad about this since you all want to play this game and I haven't read much negative about the gameplay which is how it should be done. Sure, they said "no monetization until we're out of Early Access" - but nobody can really estimate how much money it'd cost to sustain servers and pay workers and so on when they wrote that text. It's only cosmetics. CSGO does it, Dota 2 does it, League of Legends does it... It's an old thing that kept games you love up and running. [h1]Review part![/h1] PUBG is a great game, it does many design aspects right. [b]The sound design is phenomenal[/b] and, even though I'm running a fairly old system (see below), I'm getting a steady ~60 FPS once everything loaded. Sure, there can be dips into the 40's, but nothing unplayable. Before you bash me on that - I don't classify anything that doesn't run on at least 120fps playable - usually. But since this is a slow game, 40 fps are enough for running and spotting. Sure, when shooting, I'd love to have 60fps.. But that's nothing I can nitpick. The game is in early access, not very old, and very unoptimized, still. But I'm almost sure that it'll still change for the better. [b]The Devs of this game are very dedicated.[/b] The day after I started playing, they rolled out the first person servers which introduced a lot of lag. They worked day and night to figure out the problem and eventually fixed it in a reasonable time. Same with Squad First Person - the drop-bug was bugging (heh) me and my friends, but it got fixed very very quickly. [list] [*]Guns are good, can't wait for more to be added, obviously [*]Modes are good, even though I dont play third person anymore for obvious reasons [*]Performance.. it works, but hey, it's early access! [*]Skin-monetization is alright, I don't hate it - I won't buy anything, but I can live with it [*]I personally have encountered 1 possible cheater. While I think that that can happen, it definitely hasn't been more than 1 [*]The game is incredibly fun to play with friends, I absolutely don't regret buying it [/list] Really the only thing I can nag about is performance and crashes.. But again, it's early access! Specs: CPU: Intel core i5 2500k @ 4.2GHz GPU: AMD R9 280X 3GB RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR3 1333MHz I guess I could mention that it's installed on my HDD, which makes loading in the houses at the airplane drop sometimes problematic, but yeah, that's okay with me