Forcing the SA players to play on the NA servers via region merge is a real bummer. I’ve been talking about it for a while and openly disagree with the decision. If PUBG is losing players in certain regions, the solution to fill servers is not to merge them but to find a way to bring back the old players. A fundamental change to the game itself (what made these people quit to begin with, or what would make them decide to play again). Basically listening to the player base.
The way I see it, these server merges will have the same result as when the game went F2P. Large influx of players for the NA players to farm as fodder who will all quit the game very soon. When the game went F2P, the fodder was all the new and returning players who were basically there to fill lobbies for all the experienced players to annihilate. They had no way of finding competition amongst other similar skilled players, and were told to “git gud” by the players who stuck around for 6 years. Now that the servers are merged, the fodder will be the SA players who are handicapped with a permanent 150+ ping. Experienced or not, the large ping differences to the server will be a major disadvantage.
The even larger issue with this is that when the SA players stop playing, NA will be back to where it was before the merge. NA players will be happy temporarily because their servers are full at the expense of others. Not me.
What a sad day for PUBG. Sorry to everyone in SA. Here’s to hoping PUBG reverts this change. Sorry for the novel, I’m glad I’m on vacation. ✌️
So the NA + SA server merge ended up just being SA players on NA servers, rather than combining the queues w/ server located spots between the two regions in order to make a fair, balanced experience for both regions.
That’s… a very odd choice, and, quite frankly, not fair on South American players.
Why would you not meet halfway so that it evens out for both regions?