Crafton announced PUBG: Black Budget canceledLook A spin-off of the salsa extraction shooting game PUBG was released in November last year and was in closed alpha for about nine months. The decision came after an internal review of the project, which, according to the publisher, would not result in “an experience that players will appreciate in the long term.”
In a brief update posted on Steam, the company explained: “After reviewing the development status and future direction of the project, we have concluded that the current path It doesn’t allow us to deliver a lasting experience. Therefore, we have made the difficult decision to cease development of PUBG: Black Budget. “Crafton thanked the participants of the closed beta and emphasized that the lessons learned will be used in future PUBG Studios projects.
It was an ambitious project, but it didn’t go in the direction Crafton had hoped.
Black Budget launched last November as a Tactical Evacuation Shooterthus competing with representatives of the genre, such as Escape from Tarkov. game will be Set on an island trapped in a time loopThere, a team of mercenaries are supposed to recover secret technology while escaping a supernatural threat known as the Anomaly. Despite multiple tests with the community, the game never received an official release window…and now we know why.
Beyond that, the cancellation comes at a delicate time for spinoffs based on the PUBG battle royale game: In March, Krafton also shut down PUBG: Blindspot, a free-to-play top-down shooter that was withdrawn after just two months in Early Access. Even in this case, the developers said it was impossible to guarantee a “sustainable level of experience.”
In recent years, Crafton has outlined Strategies for transforming PUBG into a larger platformfeaturing sandbox content, UGC (user-generated content), and new types that leverage the gunplay and physics of the main game.
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In this sense, Black Budget and Blindspot should have been at the forefront of IP expansion, but both were shut down before entering the market. Despite these setbacks, the company is still developing PUBG: Ded.Net, a multiplayer spin-off with roguelike progression announced during Gamescom 2024. Hopefully this project will have better luck than the other two canceled spin-offs.
