Brendan Greene: Region locking Chinese PUBG gamers “simply would not work”

Greene mentioned that “everyone that [suggests] region locking [is forgetting about] VPN,” and that because of this, the follow “just doesn’t work.” He additionally mentioned that the ping-based matchmaking not too long ago carried out by the event group “really has improved the gameplay experience for a lot of players.”

Pretty a lot any announcement made by Bluehole or PUBG Corp on Steam is responded to with the time period “Region Lock China,” after gamers demanded options to the prevalence of cheaters within the recreation. Anti-cheat service BattlEye declare that the “vast majority” of the accounts they ban come from the country.

Both Greene and PUBG Corp’s CEO Chang Han Kim deny rumours that the corporate is contemplating region-locking China. Greene says that enhancements are nonetheless within the works, and that the objective is to maintain enhancing the sport “over this year and the next year and the next ten years.”