Monday, October 30th 2017
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Ditches Amazon Web Services for Microsoft Azure
Earlier this year, Bluehole confirmed their partnership with Microsoft to bring the popular PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) title to the Xbox One console. However, their relationship didn't end there. During a recent Microsoft quarterly earnings conference call, the company's CEO Satya Nadella stated the following:
"Gaming pushes the boundaries of hardware and software innovation, with some of the most CPU and GPU-intensive applications and content, giving us a huge opportunity in the cloud. As one example, PUBG Corp., with the hit game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, is not only partnering to make Xbox the exclusive console at launch, but is also running on Azure."This move is most likely part of the deal with Microsoft to make PUBG an "exclusive" title on the Xbox One. By keeping the game on the console, Microsoft could facilitate Bluehole with the necessary server infrastructure at a discounted price. Microsoft Azure is starting to become popular as it's also home to other major titles like Titanfall, Hitman, Halo 5: Guardians, and Forza Motorsport 7.
Source:
Windows Central
"Gaming pushes the boundaries of hardware and software innovation, with some of the most CPU and GPU-intensive applications and content, giving us a huge opportunity in the cloud. As one example, PUBG Corp., with the hit game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, is not only partnering to make Xbox the exclusive console at launch, but is also running on Azure."This move is most likely part of the deal with Microsoft to make PUBG an "exclusive" title on the Xbox One. By keeping the game on the console, Microsoft could facilitate Bluehole with the necessary server infrastructure at a discounted price. Microsoft Azure is starting to become popular as it's also home to other major titles like Titanfall, Hitman, Halo 5: Guardians, and Forza Motorsport 7.
24 Comments on PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Ditches Amazon Web Services for Microsoft Azure
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Is there somewhere which detailed the issues?
I ask as i (used to) work at AWS. ;)
I am kinda thinking of getting this game when it goes into beta.
CHINA NUMBER 1!!!!!!! CHINA NUMBER 1!!!!!!!!
And some people occasionally blurt out racist shyte. But, that is easily muted.
All I know is that their Asian servers, quote from this article, had an issue where the "cloud service ran out of capacity". That and their constant issues but the majority of issues could be moreso related to their own development.
Its also EARLY FUCKING ACCESS. People who buy games in early access should know what comes with that. Its not a finished product, but clearly its good enough to reign in 2 million concurrent users consistently.
Pubg is just an unoptimized crap that will die as soon as the big sharks enter the battle royale scene. Fortnite already stole a lot of players and it isnt even a good game. We talk in 1 year (battlefield BR, cod br, blizzard br etc etc)
Of course if a AAA studio dives into battle royal genre they will likely beat out pubg, but those AAA studios also have far more talent, and resources at their disposal. PUBG started from a studio with less than 40 developers. It expanded to over 100 within 6 months of it being in early access and has made leaps and bounds in client performance.
Pubg isnt that unoptimized, the only people i see even mentioning those words these days also have computers from what is considered now as the stone age, an expect devs to bend over backwards for them and their dual core rigs with GPUs from 5 years ago.
Again this game is early access. Only has about a year and a half of development time under its belt. It has improved far more in such short amount of time in comparison to H1Z1 that has been in early access for 4 years and they have made damn near zero progress on that particular title.
Simply put, your expectations for an unfinished product is stupidly high.
I have to say that some of the Taiwan players and Koreans do this thing...
I'm from China, and I do hate this shit.