The game that popularized the battle royale genre and inspired a legion of competitors, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, shortened PUBG, will be shutting down its free-to-play version of the ultimate life and death fight specced for lower-end machines.
The game, which has a few different versions that allow you to play on everything from an underpowered phone to a high-end gaming rig, will have one less version starting April 29th.
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In its note to fans, Krafton, the game’s publisher, didn’t give a reason for the impending closure. In a notice on its site it said that it was grateful for the passion and support of the fans and “during the strenuous times of the COVID-19 pandemic, we hope that PUBG LITE was able to provide our fans a fun way to stay safe”.
Despite this, they would be closing service after much deliberation.
News of the shutdown came after the publisher’s announcement last November that PUBG Lite was going fully free-to-play, after ditching its in-game currency system.
The game was launched in beta in January 2019 in Thailand, and it moved to Europe in October of that same year.