Jakarta: Krafton will take the latest step in the evolution of their famous battle royale game, PUBG: Battlegrounds or previously known as PUBG. First released in 2017 as a paid game on the PC platform, the game is now planned to be free to play.
Krafton at The Game Awards 2021 announced that starting on January 12, 2022 the game PUBG: Battlegrounds will be completely free-to-play. So gamers can start to feel the excitement of battle royale on PC without having to buy the game.
Quoted from WCCF Tech, when the game is available for free, there will be an option to upgrade to a premium account called Battlegrounds Plus which will provide access to exclusive in-game content.
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For gamers who have purchased the PUBG game, they will get a prize in the form of a Special Commemorative Pack, including automatically switching their account to Battlegrounds Plus. The official information received states that a free account for PUBG: Battlegrounds can upgrade to Battlegrounds Plus at a price of USD 13 or around Rp. 186 thousand.
Some of the content that will be received when upgrading to Battlegrounds Plus is a bonus of 1.3000 G-Coin, Survival Masters XP+100 percent, career medal, ranked mode and custom match features as well as in-game items such as camo for outfits.
Krafton emphasized that the free-to-play or free mode of the PUBG: Battlegrounds game does not only apply to PC platforms as well as consoles. This marks a change in the game’s business model, so many are looking forward to Krafton’s next move.
Krafton himself is now focusing on developing the mobile game PUBG: New State which is a direct competitor to PUBG Mobile. The game offers different content with a more futuristic theme, but so far there has been no visible form of the esports ecosystem that will be brought.
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