“If you asked anyone a year ago about PUBG succeeding as an esports, most would say it’s an improbable or impossible venture.”
About two years ago PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds brought the Battle Royal genre to the forefront of gaming and streaming media with a game everyone seemed to want to play and stream. The genre then spawned countless games on various platforms like Fortnite, Apex Legends, CS:GO Danger Zone among many others. As the player base of PUBG seems to dwindle as the genre popularized, the team at PUBG Corp. decided to double down and turn it into a full-fledged esport title.