PUBG Temporarily Turning Off Personal Item Trades

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The developer team behind the popular battle royale game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) decided to clue players in on why they are temporarily turning off personal trade items. They also go into explaining exactly what this featured offered and how it's currently being exploited.

"Starting today," opened up Bluehold on the PUBG Steam page, "we're going to temporarily turn off access to "personal trades" for all PUBG items."Some context: Normally, players can trade items using either the "Market trade" or "Personal trade" features. "Market trade" lets you sell items through the Steam market system. "Personal trade’" is supposed to allow friends to trade items without any costs attached."


"Recently," they added "we’ve seen a few cases of players using the personal trade function to sell items using third party sites. This is essentially an abuse of the system. To prevent this, we're temporarily turning off personal trades while we search for a better solution. Once we figure out a way to prevent abuse, the restriction will be lifted."


It's a shame that this continues to be an issue, but it's in no way a new one. The exploit of gaming markets is by no means anything new in the online gaming world, though it does continue to be a problem and eventually ends up affecting all players. No word on when the feature will be turned back on, but we're hoping that they can find a way to simmer down the amount of players taking advantage of the system.

In other PUBG news, did you see that the War Mode is making its triumphant return? Here's what you need to know:

"This time around you’ll enlist in one of 10 five-man squads and battle it out on Miramar," opens up the team at PUBG Corp. "As before, you’ll respawn in a plane after every death. The first team to get 200 points wins."


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XBL-ABPosted:

Maze Wow, this is actually great news. Shows they are trying to keep PUBG going for the long haul if you ask me.


LOL are you serious? A few bad apples removed a great function.

People wanting to sell to third party to actually get money instead of steams crappy currency.

322Posted:

The reason they are stopping this is because they want their cut of each sale and they know the wales are using 3rd party websites and they are missing out.

DalmPosted:

They should just leave it off tbf and make so you have to do something to obtain items differently

MazePosted:

Wow, this is actually great news. Shows they are trying to keep PUBG going for the long haul if you ask me.

SilkyPosted:

Most developers would ignore this type of issue as it's a big task to fix so good on them.