PlayerUnknown: «Community is saying we're esports ready. We're not yet»

PUBG creator Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene is confident that his game will someday become a full-fledged and popular esports discipline. Greene told The Radio 1 Gaming Show that it is too early to talk about it right now, but one day PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds will be ready to conquer esports.

We see the hype around the game's potential as an esport all the time. But we have to build an amazing foundation for it to happen and that takes time. Many other games have rushed into being an esport and they aren't around any more, so we want to take this slowly. The whole community is saying we're esports ready. We're not yet but we will be one day.

 

Gamescom in Germany, Intel Extreme Masters event in the USA and at the G-Star convention in South Korea – these are not esports events. What we're doing with these is just testing formats. We're still figuring out the right format, how to do it, how to run the events to give organisers enough air time and make sure the players feel it's fair. These things are going to take time but we're in no rush. We believe Battle Royale could be an amazing eSport, but we have to get it right.

Recently ESL has announced a new PUBG tournament which will take place at Intel® Extreme Masters World Championship Katowice. It will be the PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' first LAN event of 2018! You can read all the available details here.

Origin: www.bbc.co.uk