GameUnknown Developers' Game Battleground Completes Fight Against Fortnite

KONTAN.CO.ID – JAKARTA. PUBG Corp., game developer of GameUnknown's Battleground (PUBG) has revoked its lawsuit against Epic Games Inc., the developer of the game Fortnite.

Launched from Bloomberg, PUBG notified the withdrawal of the trial to Epic on Monday (25/6). And since then, the case registered in South Korean court is over.

"Based on the local site of the South Korean court, PUBG and its legal team have stated this without giving any reason why the lawsuit is revoked, or how the agreement of both parties is reached," wrote BloombergWednesday (27/8).

Previously, the PUBG complaint to Epic was filed in January on the copyright. PUBG rate, concept royal battle game owned by Fortnite imitated PUBG. The two games, ranging from 100 players who have gathered on an island to fight, rely on a variety of weapons that are on the island until they 're ready. a winner emerges at the end of the game.

In addition, at Epic, a similar complaint was also filed with the developers of China Netease Inc., with games Rules of Survival, and Knives Out.

Just so you know, PUBG and Epic are owned by the Chinese giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. Tencent is well known through the WeChat application, and has shares in some major applications like Spotify and Snapchat.

Released on September 26, 2017, the popularity of Fortnite as a game royal battle he continues to erode PUBG which was released on March 23, 2017. In February 2018, Epic released that Fortnite players reached 3.4 million people. This number broke the record of the highest 3.3 million PUBG players in January 2018. While since the SteamDB data, since then until May, PUBG players have dropped to only 1.5 million people.

Fortnite which is a free game (free to play) drag for the sale of goods in the game (in-game sale). Superdata In April, Fortnite reported $ 296 million. While since its release, according to the data SteamSpyPUBG, which can be played via the PC and XBOX platform, has been sold by 44 million people with a potential profit of $ 1.3 million.

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