PUBG: Blindspot is closing after less than 2 months of early access

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Subscribe to our newsletter PUBG: Blindspot showed real promise when we took it for a spin in 2024: PC Gamer’s Jake Tucker said that “with some polish to the controls and a proper onboarding experience, this could be a genuinely fun, highly accessible tac shooter.” But it failed to make much of a splash when it launched into early access in February, and less than two months later Krafton has seen enough.”Since our last update, the team has been exploring multiple ways to improve the experience and move the game forward,” Sequoia Yang of developer Arc Team wrote in a Steam update. “However, after careful consideration, we have come to the conclusion that we are no longer able to sustainably provide the level of experience we set out to deliver through early access.”As a result, PUBG: BLINDSPOT’s Early Access service will come to an end on Monday, March 30.”Article continues below You may like PUBG: Blindspot launch times and release date Highguard developers were surprised by layoff notices, new report says: They thought they’d have at least a few months to work on it but when Tencent ended funding, there was nothing left Highguard director shares stats and thoughts on the game’s failure, denies conspiracy theories about where it all went wrong: ‘Nobody will know the true story of the studio or game’ Unlike its namesake, PUBG: Blindspot was a top-down shooter—a bit like Rainbow Six Siege run through Diablo. Yang said it was “a bold attempt to explore new possibilities within the top-down tactical shooter space,” and it was reasonably wel