Huge Twitch streamer plays PUBG again after years: “I believe in the game again”

Jaryd “summit1g” Lazar (34) is one of the biggest shooter streamers on Twitch. It was thanks to PUBG that he was able to build a large audience. Now, years later, he’s returned to the Battle Royale – and having a lot of fun again.

Who is it about? With over 6 million followers on Twitch, Jaryd “summit1g” Lazar is one of the biggest streamers on the streaming platform. He is best known for his impressively good gameplay in shooters such as Counter-Strike, Valorant or, most recently, Escape from Tarkov.

PUBG was also one of his biggest games. However, he hasn’t played it in years. Until 2019 he played the Battle Royale regularly in front of his viewers, since then only occasionally in winter 2020.

Now, years later, he’s returned to the game. After that, he only had positive things to say about it.

Summit1g exemplifies PUBG’s ‘resurrection’

Why is he playing PUBG again? PUBG is currently experiencing a kind of resurgence. That’s because the game switched to a free-to-play model in January 2022.

This move appears to be a success: the game nearly doubled its player base overnight.

That’s why summit1g tried the game again. After playing the game extensively on stream, he said in summary:

I think today was a good day in PUBG. It went well. I believe in the game again. I have hope again. […] PUBG isn’t going away anytime soon folks. Thank god people still play this.

summit1g in his Twitch-Stream

Why did he stop playing? Especially in his streams in 2019, the streamer apparently lost the fun of the game. In addition, there was more and more competition for the Battle Royale on the market. Apparently he enjoyed these other games more.

Especially after the release of CoD Warzone, he expressed great criticism of PUBG. Shortly after the release of Warzone, he said on Twitter that PUBG was far too slow in comparison. He underlined this opinion with a turtle emoji:

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In early 2022, the streamer rediscovered the fun of PUBG Battlegrounds. It remains to be seen whether this resurrection of the shooter, represented here by summit1g, will last.

Currently, however, it seems to appeal to both new players and old veterans – and to inspire them again.

He recently showed that summit1g is also a veteran on Twitch with Escape from Tarkov. After being annoyed again by an annoying stream sniper, he showed how to deal perfectly with such a situation:

Twitch veteran stalked by stream sniper in Escape from Tarkov – Find perfect fix