PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds seems to have a problem with AFK farmers. These players do nothing and farm points for crates. The boxes are then sold for a lot of money on the marketplace.
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds drops up to 100 players on a large map and lets them fight to the death against each other. The longer you survive, the more points you get. Players use the points to buy loot boxes that contain coveted clothing. Since you can earn some points even after a short time, some players exploit this to earn points steadily without effort and thus make money.
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds – Bots and AFK Farmers – Doing nothing and still cashing in
Even if you do nothing and die early, you get 50-60 points in PUBG after dying and spend only a few minutes. Thanks to PUBG’s game mechanics, AFK farming is particularly easy. You only need to sign up for a round once, and the rest happens automatically. Even the jump from the plane and the opening of the parachute is taken over for you by the game.
Anyone who does this often can earn large amounts of points without any problems and buy the coveted loot boxes. Especially during the time around Gamescom, the loot boxes and their contents were in demand and fetched high prices, as they contained special items that were only available at that time. Therefore, the boxes could be sold for good, real money in the Marketplace:
- Gamescom Invitational Crate: Up to 3.55 US Dollars (Although you have to unlock them again with real money!)
- Survivor Crate: Up to 1.75 US Dollars
- Wanderer Crate: Up to 1.20 US Dollars
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds – Is the situation with AFK players really that bad?
According to streamer and YouTuber rifaLxfactor, it was particularly tough during the Gamescom period. Since AFK players and bots are easy prey and usually die in the first circle phase, the server population would drop from 100 to 70 in a matter of minutes because numerous AFK players died simultaneously.
Other players, however, report on Reddit that there are far from as many regular AFK players. Instead of 30-50 loafers, there are more like a moderate 4 to 7, at most 10. This claim is supported by a former AFK player who is slowly losing interest.
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds – AFK Farmer gives up: “It’s not worth it anymore!”
Meanwhile, players would specialize in hunting down AFK players and also wait until the last jump point. Then the game automatically kicks the inactive stragglers out of the plane. For active players, the many helpless AFK players and bots are easy pickings.
Some players can achieve 8 kills or more in just a few seconds with bare hands and earn a decent amount of points.
So they farm the farmers.
Therefore, AFK farming would no longer be worth it; you simply die too quickly.
The colleagues from PC Gamer have actually conducted a test and found only 2 AFK players in Squad mode. However, in Solo mode, there were about 14 who were eventually torn to pieces by the aforementioned “AFK hunters” with bare hands. We have embedded a video of the action here.
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