PUBG developer launches new website called 'Fix PUBG' as it admits that game is broken

Fortnite: Battle Royale has largely eclipsed its competitor because of a whole host of bugs

Andrew Griffin
Wednesday 08 August 2018 15:00 BST
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The developers of Playerunknown's Battlegrounds have promised to fix the game and launched a special website to force them to do so.

The page – called "Fix PUBG" – takes its name from a popular rallying cry of fans who are tired of the games various bugs, issues and problems.

The website lists 100 major bugs and crosses them off as developers fix them. Many of them have been removed by the latest update for Xbox and PC, though many more are still remaining.

PUBG was the first of the mainstream battle royale games to become famous, spawning a genre that is now an industry all by itself.

But its popularity has been blighted by the wide variety of issues that the game has had since release. Many of them are strange and include bugs that make people's heads disappear in mid-game – though the game also runs slowly generally.

It is those issues that have allowed Fortnite: Battle Royale to overtake it in terms of popularity, making it the most popular game in the world.

But PUBG continues to be played by millions of people around the world, and developers hope that the new site will stop the game being so frustrating for those that do.

"'Fix the Game,'" developers wrote on the official PUBG Twitter page. "This is a phrase we’ve been hearing a lot lately. So today, we’re announcing a new campaign entirely focused on addressing bugs, quality-of-life improvements, and fundamental performance improvements."

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