Gaming giant is offering € 87 million to let content creators play their shooter

On By Garmin Philip

The Chinese giant Tencent is one of the largest gaming companies in the world. In order to promote their game PUBG Mobile, they are now planning to spend millions of euros on content creators. Anyone who has reached a certain number of followers can apply.

What exactly is that action? PUBG Mobile has launched the “Next Star Program”. In doing so, they give out a total of $ 100 million in rewards. The rewards include:

  • Incentives in the form of money
  • Special training to become a better creator
  • Exclusive access to new content
  • Ingame-Items aller Art
  • Promotion through the official channels
  • Contact with the pro players

However, the developer Quantum Studio and the publisher Tencent do not reveal exactly how these rewards are distributed. Nevertheless, this sum is enormous and shows that Tencent is primarily betting on the mobile game.

Because for the PC and the console version there is only a slimmed-down “Appreciation Program” through which the players can create a kind of reflink and thus earn money from their followers’ purchases.

How can you participate in “Next Star”? If you want to join the PUBG Mobile program, you have to meet a number of requirements. So you need at least 50,000 followers on YouTube, TikTok or Twitch. You also have to offer a constant level of quality and be a passionate player.

Those who meet these criteria can apply via the official website (via pubgmobile).

PUBG Mobile is a huge success worldwide, also popular in Germany

What is PUBG Mobile? This Battle Royale is the mobile offshoot of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. As in the PC version, you can compete against other players on huge maps with a wide variety of weapons and vehicles of all kinds. They fight until there is only one person left alive.

The mobile version also very often enters into collaborations and cross-promotions of all kinds. There was already a collaboration with Resident Evil and most recently the LoL series Arcane. This means that the shooter always attracts new players.

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How popular is the game? However, PUBG Mobile is particularly popular in Asia. The game is particularly popular in India, as many gamers there use their smartphones. Bizarre deaths caused by PUBG have even been reported: A teenager is said to have drank acid instead of water because he was so absorbed in PUBG.

In September 2020, PUBG Mobile was even banned in India, but green blood and money were tricked into to bypass this ban.

PUBG Mobile is also played in China and Korea.

But in Germany, too, PUBG 2020 was one of the most successful mobile games ever. In total, the game is said to have been downloaded more than a billion times.

PUBG on PC and consoles now Free2Play

What is happening with the PC version? While PUBG Mobile was published as a Free2Play shooter from the start, the PC and console versions had to be bought for a long time. But that changed exactly this week.

From now on you can play PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds for free on these platforms. More here:

One of the best multiplayer shooters is now free-to-play on PS4 and PS5

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