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After all, The Callisto Protocol will depart from PUBG's context.
One cannot deny PUBG's contributions to the global online gaming industry. Considered a groundbreaking title, marking the advent of the Battle Royale trend, however, over time, the name PUBG gradually fades into obscurity, even labeled as a dead game numerous times. To the extent that now, PUBG is almost synonymous with negativity.
This will likely leave many fans lamenting, as Krafton - PUBG's parent company - even hoped to construct a universe revolving around this spiritual offspring. Evidence lies in the project named The Callisto Protocol coming into being. Initially, The Callisto Protocol was known as the starting point for the universe, set in the world 300 years after the events of PUBG. And naturally, at that time, without doing much, The Callisto Protocol garnered immense attention from gamers.
However, after a while, PUBG lost its popularity and brought forth numerous negative aspects regarding the issue of hacking and cheating. Even opening up for free couldn't salvage the dwindling reputation of this game. Despite a surge in player numbers initially after going free, most eventually abandoned PUBG due to its shortcomings in managing hacks, cheats, and overall game performance. And whether by chance or design, recently, The Callisto Protocol announced its complete departure from the PUBG universe, going against its previous claims.
The development team of the project has also provided an explanation. Specifically, the reason given is that everyone agrees the connection to PUBG is not very clear in The Callisto Protocol, and things would be more focused if not too much distracted by the PUBG factor. Afterwards, the whole team met with CEO Kim and proposed the idea that it would be better if The Callisto Protocol completely broke away from the concept of PUBG and received approval. However, everyone understands that if initially not labeled as part of the PUBG universe, The Callisto Protocol probably wouldn't have garnered much attention.
Faced with these explanations, most gamers showed little enthusiasm. Some even believe that The Callisto Protocol seems to only want to capitalize on PUBG's reputation in their PR campaign, and as soon as they see the game declining, they want to break free completely. The game is scheduled to be released on December 2, 2022.
Video summary of the article:
PUBG's creator unexpectedly changes course on new project, decides to break free from PUBG universe immediately ridiculed Likely afraid of negative publicity
