A recent update to PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds ditched the server selection the battle royale game used to employ in favour of region locking – something players had vociferously called for for months.
However, PUBG Corp., the developer of the game, has since been hit by a backlash to the update, with the game’s western players calling for Chinese players only to be region-locked.
PC update 22, which came out earlier this week, made it so your server or region was decided automatically depending on the player’s local region.
Source: Eurogamer PUBG ditched server selection – and now there are calls to region lock China