I used to love this game but I went off it.

No private team voice chat, which I don't like. I can't always play with friends and I play games to socialise. They talk some guff about "there were no walkie-talkies in the 1890s" and it being a design decision not to include it (with only public voice chat - which is needed but they should also offer private voice chat). So, in a game with zombies, water devils, giant spiders, phantoms made of flying beetles, giant pig butchers, hell hounds, in which players have second sight, can glimpse the spirit world, telepathy is beyond belief? Seriously!?!?!? IN A GAME WITH AR-STYLE POINT AND PLACE WAYPOINT MARKERS!?!?!!? At least just admit "we can't do it". I am not asking you to get rid of public / 3d positional audio chat (it is needed) but if PubG has both, you can too. It's not just that, when I've played with friends, with voice chat over discord, it feels like cheating, like we might be winning because the others can't chat like we can.

People don't want a single player experience, or one where they're penalised for chatting informally. Want to increase your player base? This one is more or less free.

"Oh but who wants a 12 yo yelling at you" etc. arguments just don't make sense. Well, a) that doesn't happen, or so rarely it's not worth talking about. Besides, someone could still do that but they'd also be giving away your position in the world with public/positional chat, the way it is.

There's other stuff too. You lose the charming low-tech gunplay of lower levels as you get more powerful. Back to Crysis's run and gun roots, auto pistolas / fast load traits etc. Something made more viable by them changing the default stance to "run and gun" mode, rather than the original "gun lowered" view.

They also started introducing bot matches and useless deathmatch/blood royal modes, rather than developing the actual USP hunt aspects. If I wanted PubG I'd play that, deathmatch, battlefield or something.

I used to love this game but I went off it. No private team voice chat, which I don't like. I can't always play with friends and I play games to socialise. They talk some guff about "there were no walkie-talkies in the 1890s" and it being a design decision not to include it (with only public voice chat - which is needed but they should also offer private voice chat). So, in a game with zombies, water devils, giant spiders, phantoms made of flying beetles, giant pig butchers, hell hounds, in which players have second sight, can glimpse the spirit world, telepathy is beyond belief? Seriously!?!?!? IN A GAME WITH AR-STYLE POINT AND PLACE WAYPOINT MARKERS!?!?!!? At least just admit "we can't do it". I am not asking you to get rid of public / 3d positional audio chat (it is needed) but if PubG has both, you can too. It's not just that, when I've played with friends, with voice chat over discord, it feels like cheating, like we might be winning because the others can't chat like we can. People don't want a single player experience, or one where they're penalised for chatting informally. Want to increase your player base? This one is more or less free. "Oh but who wants a 12 yo yelling at you" etc. arguments just don't make sense. Well, a) that doesn't happen, or so rarely it's not worth talking about. Besides, someone could still do that but they'd also be giving away your position in the world with public/positional chat, the way it is. There's other stuff too. You lose the charming low-tech gunplay of lower levels as you get more powerful. Back to Crysis's run and gun roots, auto pistolas / fast load traits etc. Something made more viable by them changing the default stance to "run and gun" mode, rather than the original "gun lowered" view. They also started introducing bot matches and useless deathmatch/blood royal modes, rather than developing the actual USP hunt aspects. If I wanted PubG I'd play that, deathmatch, battlefield or something.