Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds will combat AFK farmers

Here’s some sort of rule: if a popular multiplayer game has an item drop system, players will try to exploit it – to the detriment of other players. This goes double when those items can be sold. Now that Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds [official site] is the most populous game on Steam and its rarest items dropped in ‘crates’ can sell for hundreds of pounds, you betcha folks are trying to exploit it. Developers Bluehole Studio say they are away of people joining games then simply leaving it running, accumulating points to buy crates simply by standing still, and they do plan to combat it. (more…)

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