statement<\/a> posted to X\/Twitter, Greene’s studio PlayerUnknown Productions said it had been a “hard decision to restructure the studio,” but committed to continuing development of its Melba tech.<\/p>\n“When PlayerUnknown Productions became an independent studio in 2021, 23 embarked on a journey to achieve an ambitious vision for the future,” the statement read.<\/p>\n
“Our goal has been to develop technology that can break the boundaries of scale, which currently limit how large virtual worlds can be. To achieve this, we built a research team to develop our Melba technology and a team to develop our first practical application of our terrain generation technology: Prologue: Go Wayback!”<\/p>\n
It continued: “Unfortunately, I have reached the limits of how far I can continue to fund this journey in its current form. As a result, I have made the hard decision to restructure the studio. We will continue developing our Melba technology with a smaller team, while halting further development of Go Wayback.<\/p>\n
“Our immediate priority is to support our affected employees to the best of our abilities during this difficult transition.”<\/p>\n
As part of the announcement, the team also revealed that the studio’s Prologue: Go Wayback! game \u2013 the single-player open-world emergent survival roguelike where “every journey is unique” \u2013 will lose its $20\/\u00a317 pricetag and become free “for all future players with an upcoming update.”<\/p>\n
As a consequence of that decision, PlayerUnknown Productions is now “investigating offering players who have purchased the game on Steam and Epic Games Store a way to receive a refund.”<\/p>\n
Brendan Greene, best known as the creator of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, founded his new independent studio back in 2021<\/a>. PlayerUnknown Productions and is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PUGB creator Brendan Greene has announced a studio restructure at PlayerUnknown Productions, admitting “I have reached the limits…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-620282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}