Krafton’s free-to-play PUBG spin-off, PUBG: Blindspot, is closing down after just two months.
Although it only launched on 5th February as an early-access title, Arc Team’s Sequoia Yang said the studio was “no longer able to sustainably provide the level of experience we set out to deliver Early Access”, and will shutdown servers at 10am UK time on Monday, 30th March (11am CET, 3am PDT).
“Since our last update, the team has been exploring multiple ways to improve the experience and move the game forward,” Yang said. “However, after careful consideration, we have come to the conclusion that we are no longer able to sustainably provide the level of experience we set out to deliver through Early Access.
“We place player experience at the centre of every decision we make, and it is based on that principle that we have made this decision. As a result, PUBG: Blindspot’s Early Access service will come to an end on Monday, March 30.”
Yang added that the team understood that this “may not be the outcome many of you were hoping for” but the game was “a bold attempt to explore new possibilities within the top-down tactical shooter space”.
“Throughout this journey, the feedback and support from our players have meant a great deal to the team, and will continue to inform our future development efforts,” Yang concluded. “To everyone who believed in the game and supported its direction, we are truly grateful.
The Arc Team will take some time to regroup, and we hope to return with new experiences in the future. It has been a privilege to build this game alongside our community.”
Our lovely Ian took a look at PUBG: Blindspot last year, calling it the first proper PUBG spin-off “a bit of an oddity”.
“Despite the Steam page for its Next Fest demo saying the game was “inspired by PUBG: Battlegrounds”, and has a dinky little PUBG sticker above its logo to prove it’s part of the wider PUBG universe, it’s pretty clear from the second you choose a character and jump into a 5v5 Demolition match that another game has been a much bigger inspiration here: namely, Ubisoft’s Rainbow Six Siege,” he wrote at the time.
Eurogamer recently caught up with project lead and veteran Far Cry series director Patrik Méthé to find out more about Krafton’s Project Windless, the game based on author Lee Youngdo’s wildly popular high fantasy series, The Bird That Drinks Tears, which we learned more about earlier this year.
