[STEAM] PUBG creator Brendan Greene reduces team and makes final update for Prologue: Go Wayback!

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Brendan Greene, creator of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and founder of PlayerUnknown Productions, announced his company has to scale back its team and it has made its final update to Prologue: Go Wayback!, a survival game in early access.

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, Greene said that he has funded the game to date, but now he must move forward “with a smaller team while finding the right partners for the project.”

This means that Prologue will be available for free for players but the team will not update it from now on.

Greene started development Prologue years ago as a survival game where you randomly spawn into a map and then try to survive long enough to exit the map at a weather station. It was part of an ambitious trio of games where Greene hoped to eventually prove the viability of a metaverse-like experience that could be published directly to the web. Greene had money from PUBG’s success and he funded the project on his own and with the help of partners, but now time is running out for that approach.

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“The games industry has been in a tough spot for a while, and we’re not alone in the struggle to find funding,” Greene wrote. “I’m privileged to have had the choice to keep the studio’s lights on by myself, and I’m very aware that it’s a luxury few developers have when they go independent. I could only do that for so long, and now we must move forward with a smaller team while finding the right partners for the project. I want to thank my team at

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for their professionalism.”

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Prologue: Go Wayback can keep generating wilderness landscapes to explore Source: PlayerUnknown Productions He added, “This was not an easy decision to take. But despite the challenges and uncertainty we faced this past year, their efforts showed me what a great studio culture we built together. The game we built is now free for everyone. I’m so very proud of what our team accomplished and truly regret we couldn’t finish the journey we began together. I hope everyone will enjoy exploring the wildernesses of

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as much as I have (400+ hours & still counting).”

Greene is still working on a new game engine dubbed Melba, and he said “our progress on Melba inspires me daily. “

He added, “I love what we have achieved and built as a team. Nearly every day on the studio’s Slack channels, the team posted something that filled me with hope, inspiration and excitement about the vision we are building across our projects. Our team is still actively developing our in-house Melba technology. Anyone interested in our progress can follow our development via our tech demo, Preface: Undiscovered World, on Steam, where we regularly share updates.”

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Prologue: Go Wayback has started its open beta. Source: PlayerUnknown Productions How to request a refund:

While logged into Steam, go to Help -> Steam Support

Go to Purchases, and find the game on that page or in your full Purchase History list available via “View complete purchasing history” at the bottom

Select the game

Select I would like a refund

You can leave a reason that the game has discontinued development

Steam support is informed and should be granting a refund without any questions



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