How do you get back to the top of the battle royale genre?

We have a plan ourselves, we want to build ourselves into being a platform for game modes and a more realistic battle royale. I don't think it's about being on top. It's about building a good platform for people to play games on. Whoever's number one, that's not important to us. What's more important is making sure the game we have is stable and getting it to be a good foundation for an esport.

Has Fortnite Battle Royale's success affected how you think about PUBG's development?

No. Not really. We have... Look, Fortnite are quite new to the scene, right? We have had a development process we've been working on for the last year, two years, and the process we've set up via both our CEO when he was executive producer and now with our new director and executive producer. We have processes and development systems there, of course they always need improvement, but we're not looking to others. We're trying to figure out our own way of doing it.

Is the competition inspiring? You look at something like the auto industry, and advances from, say, Ford for example, push everyone to be better and step up their game.

It's not that we're copying anyone else, but we have our own roadmap. [Competition] kicks your ass into gear sometimes. You get a bit complacent about certain things and having competition biting at your heels is great. It's going to be a battle royale battle royale. Everyone seems to have a royale this year.

Is PUBG taking a slow and steady wins the race approach to development?

I don't believe we're in a race here. We're games as a service, but really we have a plan to stabilize and optimize. Even around our anti-cheat efforts, right? Over the last six months we've really been building our systems to detect the cheating. For 50,000 games we've had maybe 500 have a possible cheaters in them. That, to me, is a huge [improvement] to me.

What does the next year look like for PUBG?

This year is about stabilizing the game. Really getting it polished off and into a competitive state. Next year is setting up the process to make an esport that will last. We want to continually... it's about creating a platform for game modes. It's about providing more than just a battle royale game.

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