{"id":404769,"date":"2017-09-23T01:38:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/09\/22\/pubg-studio-isnt-happy-about-fornite-battle-royale\/21|23219580"},"modified":"2017-09-23T01:38:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T17:38:00","slug":"pubg-studio-isnt-happy-about-fornite-battle-royale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/pubg-studio-isnt-happy-about-fornite-battle-royale\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;PUBG\u2019 studio isn&#8217;t happy about \u2018Fornite: Battle Royale\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no ignoring the similarities between the titles: Like <em>PUBG<\/em>, which launched back in March, <em>Battle Royale<\/em> drops dozens of players into a huge map filled with randomly-dropped items where they kill-or-be-killed until someone wins. They&#8217;re not identical, as the core <em>Fortnite<\/em> gameplay of creating bases and traps makes the jump over to <em>Battle Royale<\/em>. Bluehole&#8217;s game is built on Unreal engine 4, which Epic created and is using to power <em>Fortnite<\/em> and its <em>Battle Royale<\/em> spinoff.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve had an ongoing relationship with Epic Games throughout <em>PUBG<\/em>&#8216;s development as they are the creators of UE4, the engine we licensed for the game,&#8221; Bluehole&#8217;s Chang Han Kim said in the press release. &#8220;After listening to the growing feedback from our community and reviewing the gameplay for ourselves, we are concerned that <em>Fortnite<\/em> may be replicating the experience for which <em>PUBG<\/em> is known.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re also upset that Epic is using <em>PUBG<\/em>&#8216;s name in its press materials, including the announcement trailer (below):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6K4T0nGU4pg\" width=\"640\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have also noticed that Epic Games references <em>PUBG<\/em> in the promotion of <em>Fortnite<\/em> to their community and in communications with the press,&#8221; Chang Han Kim said in the press release. &#8220;This was never discussed with us and we don&#8217;t feel that it&#8217;s right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not that the <em>PUBG<\/em> team thinks it won&#8217;t have competition in the space. In a Reddit AMA from a couple days ago, Bluehole creative director and the game&#8217;s conceptual originator, Brendan &#8220;PlayerUnknown&#8221; Greene, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/PUBATTLEGROUNDS\/comments\/719pbv\/iama_playerunknown_ama\/dn99o66\/\">mentioned<\/a> that &#8220;Other companies will of course enter the marketplace, but I would just hope they put their own spin on the game-mode and not just make a carbon copy!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What makes <em>Battle Royale<\/em> seem to ape <em>PUBG<\/em> is its deviation from the tower defense gameplay of its source title <em>Fortnite<\/em>. Waypoint&#8217;s Janine Hawkins, who has been playing Epic&#8217;s game since it launched in Early Access back in July, noted how its protective playstyle contrasts with that of its spinoff&#8217;s survival deathmatch, describing the difference as &#8216;tend-and-befriend vs. fight-or-flight.&#8217; It&#8217;s convenient that Epic repurposed its game to capitalize on the genre that has been around for years, yet which <em>PUBG<\/em> has singelhandedly made wildly popular as it rose to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/08\/27\/playerunknowns-battlegrounds-surpasses-dota-2-on-steam\/\">top<\/a> of Steam&#8217;s player charts.<\/p>\n<p>Chang Han Kim closed the press release with: &#8220;The <em>PUBG<\/em> community has and continues to provide evidence of the many similarities as we contemplate further action.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hours after the ominously-worded press release went out, other game developers cheekily responded as game developers do.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"4.1428571428571\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hotline Miami Battle Royale has been canceled.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Devolver Digital (@devolverdigital) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/devolverdigital\/status\/911267239483052034\">September 22, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no ignoring the similarities between the titles: Like PUBG, which launched back in March, Battle Royale drops dozens of players into a huge map filled with randomly-dropped items where they kill-or-be-killed until someone wins. They&#8217;re not identical, as the core Fortnite gameplay of creating bases and traps makes the jump over to Battle Royale. 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