įor most of PUBG ’s life, players across the world have been able to play on one of six regional servers.
It now shares that label with hits like Ring of Elysium, Call of Duty Blackout and its perennial lunch-eater, Fortnite Battle Royale. Made by Korean team PUBG Corporation, PUBG is responsible for popularising the ‘battle royale’ subgenre of shooter, in which up to ninety-nine people drop into a location and kill each other until everyone is dead except for one person and that person wins the game. Since its early access release in March last year, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has been a global phenomenon. They’ve been waiting 49 minutes and six seconds for a game. They’re trying to play on the game’s dedicated Oceania server. Two players are trying to play together on Sanhok, the game’s tiny new map.
“Can’t find a game (Oceania).” “Are the oceania servers cooked?” “Why are the search queues so long and what has happened to this game?” One post, in early July, is just an image with the title, “PUBG in Oceania is really something special.” The image depicts the lobby screen in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. The first complaint is posted to r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS in January – “FPP Squad Oceania Not Working” – but they start to pick up speed around April. Adam Goodall investigates why, and whether it can be saved. Since its early access release in March last year, PlayersUnknown’s Battlegrounds has been a global phenomenon – but events in recent months have nearly killed its Oceania playerbase.
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