The CEO of Ghost Gaming, along with the co-owner of Spacestation Gaming have reported on their experience with dealing with PUBG Esports, labelling it as terrible! This may come at as surprise as this was one of the first games of the battle royale shooter genre to become a global success. This game is part of the reason why esports have become so popular to bet on.
The difficult years that PUBG faced when it came to esports betting has led to their departure. There are in fact a number of different reasons as to why there can be a withdrawal from a title. The lack of support, bad communication, lack of direction, etc.
After speaking with Matt Dillon, the CEO of Ghost Gaming and also Shawn Pellerin, the Co-owner of Spacestation gaming, we found out why they left the game. One of the reasons as to why they left was because of broken promises. These promises were about custom in game items that their teams were promised to get, but never received. Dillon himself said that he expected his share of that to be at least $50,000. Dillon said that their team were pitched a more robust offering of in-game custom items each time. These items were pushed back and back and eventually never happened. They said that they would not hit Phase 1 but would definitely hit Phase 2. This was then pushed even further back to whoever would qualify for PGC, then in the end it never happened.
Shawn Pellerin also repeated what Dillon said when being questioned in a separate interview on his own. He also explained how lack of communication was another key element as to why they left. Communication was quoted as “non-existent” They also name and shamed Alex Penn, who was in charge of NPL, never replied to emails that the pair sent, even after numerous emails were sent over a period of time. They weren’t able to get any feedback at all which they said would have played a very important part on the whole ordeal.
The items that they were promised were eventually cancelled and the support that they received from the PUBG corporation was extremely minimal. This is not a great look for PUBG and they should seriously reconsider the way in which they work with organizations, so that this does not happen again. Esports itself is a sport that is becoming increasing popular and the money in it is astonishing, so they are only shooting themselves in the foot.
This is not the only example of PUBG being unresponsive and not helpful in the slightest to its members. Dillon said that,
“Teams often went weeks waiting for substantive responses from league reps. I know of one instance in which an NPL team continually asked for 6 weeks for an NPL rep to sign a letter in support of a P1 Visa. Personally, I had a pretty good working relationship with the league and could count on timely responses. However, that was generally after bad news came down. There wasn’t a lot of communication and coordination ahead of announcements to coordinate with teams in the league. I do want to say that I do not think the blame lies entirely with NPL staff.”
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