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PUBG won’t region lock China, but new ping limits might prevent cross-region
matchmaking
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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is still the most popular game on Steam, by an
inescapable margin, and much of that success comes from the game’s immense
popularity in China. PUBG offers servers across several regions, but there’s
no lock preventing players in one region from swapping to another at any
time. That’s served as a significant point of contention among players for
some time now.

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Today, PUBG creator Brendan Greene reminded the world that they’re working
on a system to separate users based on large ping differences. That’s a
small announcement on its own, but in a roundabout way it addresses one of
the loudest complaints coming from the community.

According to PUBG’s anti-cheat service of choice, BattleEye, the “vast
majority” of the game’s cheaters are coming from China, and anecdotes from
the game’s millions-strong playerbase see plenty of examples of the same.
Official communication from PUBG Corp - including a recent apology over a BP
currency error - are often followed by thousands of comments saying some
variation of “region lock China.” Disappointingly but not unexpectedly,
there’s a fair share of racism and xenophobia among those calls.

But Greene doesn’t see a region lock as a valid solution. “I don’t think
that’s a good idea at all,” Greene told Kotaku in December. “Yes, the
majority of cheats come out of China, but that doesn’t mean all Chinese
players are cheaters. This idea that just because you’ve got a few bad eggs,
you’ve gotta ban a whole country is a bit reactive.”

It’s not just the cheating that has players antsy, though. The proliferation
of Chinese players across other regional servers has meant non-Chinese
speaking players in random duos and squad games never know if they’ll be
able to communicate with their teammates. Geographic distances also mean ping
times often aren’t as consistent as they should be.

The system Greene mentioned development of today would essentially serve as a
soft region lock. The wording of the original message even says “players
with a high ping difference from average ping range for the region or players
connecting over long distance will not be able to connect to a match.” It’s
not quite the #RegionLockChina that’s been tossed around, but it could serve
to make the issues behind that rallying cry far less significant.

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簡單來說，不會特地封鎖中國區。

但會有新系統，計算該區域玩家的平均ping為基準，ping太高的玩家不能連，以提升玩家
體驗。

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