10 Video Games That Screwed Players AFTER Release
7. Adding Bots To The Game - PUBG: Battlegrounds
PUBG: Battlegrounds was an absolute phenomenon when it launched in early access in March 2017, and to date has sold more than 75 million copies, while generating an eye-watering $13 billion in revenue.
Yet the house of cards came crashing down when PUBG's 7.1 update released in spring 2020, which ill-advisedly added bots to the battle royale game.
Bots were introduced to PUBG's public matches in an attempt to boost player retention, due to the number of new players who quickly bounced off the game due to dying early in matches.
The sentiment was that with low-IQ bots, human players would have a better chance of surviving longer, get a few easy kills, and become more engaged with the game, no matter that it basically diluted PUBG's entire point - surviving against a fleet of flesh-and-blood opponents.
While it would be absolutely ridiculous to suggest that PUBG is a dead game - it still regularly has around half-a-million concurrent players - its popularity has certainly peaked, and the addition of bots did nothing to remedy its slow population decline.