I think everyone knows that video games are one of the reasons why the new generation is addicted to smartphones and computers. Currently, the most popular smartphone game is called "Player Unknown Battle Grounds" or PUBG in brief. Every 24 hours at least 30 million people play PUBG. There also has much criticism around the world about this popular game.
How to play the PUBG game:
The PUBG game revolves around multiple abandoned cities. Various weapons are scattered all over the abandoned city. At the beginning of the game, 100 players were airlifted to any city. Then you have to jump out of the plane and get down with the help of a parachute.
After landing, the first task of the player is to find the necessary equipment for self-defense from the abandoned place. Then the real work begins. The main goal of this game is to find and kill the enemy to survive. The winner is the one who will survive in the end.
The use of various weapons including ammunition, surprise attacks, snipers, etc. gives the player a warlike feeling in the PUBG. It takes 30 minutes to play a full round PUBG every time. Points are awarded by matching the equation of how many opponents a player has killed on the battlefield and how long they have survived. The costume name for this type of game is 'Battle Royal'.
Players addicted to video games around the world have long wanted to get a taste of Battle Royale. Battle Royale actually will have a number of players in a specific area, whose goal is to find and kill each other. In the end the surviving player will be the winner. The first example of a Battle Royale game was the Japanese movie Bataru Boaiyaru or Battle Royale at the beginning of this century. It was a movie version of a book called Battle Royale.
The original story shows 42 Japanese students being left on an island and forced to kill each other until only one survives. A decade later, The Hunger Games was released in Hollywood in 2012 based on a similar story. Shortly after its release, the attraction and demand for the Battle Royale game continued to grow at a rapid rate.
But even then there was no such complete game in the world of games. However, at that time a person was absolutely ready to bring the full form of such a game to the market. He is ‘Brandon Green’. For the information of the readers, the pseudonym of this Irish web designer was 'Player Unknown'. He was addicted to two games, Arma and Daisy.
Arma is a game of shells made in the style of a very realistic military war. Arma quickly became popular with gamers due to its remarkable combination of perfectionism and vibrant graphics. Soon after, other game developers brought some modified versions of it into the game world. The most popular among these was the Battle Royale game ‘Daisy’, created by Brandon Green.
At one point, Sony Online Entertainment hired Brandon Green to create a new game called "King of the Kill." Then in 2016, Brandon Green received a bigger offer from Blue Hole, a South Korean game maker.
Brandon then teamed up with Korean game maker Chang Han Kim and his team to create the much-coveted full-fledged Battle Royale game 'PUBG' or Player Unknown Battle Grounds. The word 'player unknown' is used in the beginning because the players are unfamiliar with each other.
'PUBG' appeared in the market in March 2017. A beta version was released for the first time, but a full version was released in December of that was no other such game in the market at that time. There is no comparison to PUBG in creating an exciting situation by combining great graphics and action. As a result, gamers quickly grab this game.
One of the most interesting aspects of the game is its virtual world. The game has been created in the form of various man-made infrastructures and installations starting from mountains and rivers. It initially cost 20$. And 3 days after its release, it earned 11$ million. The number of its players has been steadily increasing since the first week. As a result, the game sold one million copies at the end of the first month. And in the next two months, the number of players in the PUBG is increasing to 4 million.
PUBG has long been at the forefront of popularity, surpassing the League of Legends game. Then the Chinese game maker Tencent made Android and iOS versions of PUBG. Since then, the popularity of PUBG has been gradually increasing.
So far, it has been downloaded more than 600 million times across all platforms. Which is one of the best selling games of all time. From global championships to all kinds of championships and tournaments are organized around PUBG. Similar arrangements are also made in Bangladesh.
There is a lot of controversy and criticism of this very popular game. The children are quite curious about this online game. Parents complain that after becoming addicted to this game, children are becoming more aggressive. Besides, children addicted to this game do not want to give priority to anything other than playing this game. Their only goal is to win this game.
Experts say that this game can cause mental distortion not only in children but also in adults. This game can have the same intoxicating power as drugs. Some have even called for a ban on the game. The game was banned for the first time in Gujarat, India. Ten college students have been arrested in Gujarat for playing the game. There have also been reports of the child committing suicide as his parents did not allow him to play this game.
Recently, due to the Indo-China border conflict, the Indian government banned PUBG as part of a ban on Chinese products. As a result, PUBG lost 34 million dollars in just one week. Because a large part of PUBG gamers live in India.
The game has recently been banned in Nepal as the violent content of the game weakens the students mentally and has an adverse effect on their minds. The game has been banned in Pakistan this year for the same reason. The game is even banned in China itself. It may be mentioned that in October 2019, PUBG was temporarily banned for creating violent attitudes among Bangladeshi students. But after some days the ban was abolished.
Many remember the horrific attack on a New Zealand mosque in March 2019. Experts believe that the killer, who suddenly entered the mosque with a gun and killed more than 50 worshippers, was influenced by such an online violent game. So PUBG is not a joke.
According to statistics, there are currently more than 2 million active young PUBG players in the country. Everything has good or bad sides. So it is very important to keep an eye on what our future generation is doing and learning. Because everyone expects the best for them at the end of the day.
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