{"id":75211,"date":"2026-04-10T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=75211"},"modified":"2026-04-10T14:38:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T18:38:57","slug":"pubg-dev-on-highguard-and-concord-struggles-its-really-hard-to-succeed-every-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=75211","title":{"rendered":"PUBG Dev On Highguard And Concord Struggles: It&#8217;s &#8220;Really Hard To Succeed Every Time&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PUBG franchise director Taeseok Jang has reflected on the string of shortcomings in the live-service multiplayer space, including high-profile examples like Concord and Highguard. He said in an interview that he has friends who worked on those games, and has tried to learn lessons from their struggles.<\/p>\n<p>Jang told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/games\/pubg\/pubg-boss-was-sad-to-see-concord-and-highguard-get-shut-down-but-hopes-to-learn-from-their-mistakes\/\">GamesRadar<\/a> that it is &#8220;really hard to succeed every time,&#8221; and for Concord and Highguard, he said he is trying put himself in the developers&#8217; shoes and think, &#8220;&#8216;What could I have done better in that situation?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said he would &#8220;try to have that perspective, and try to learn from it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Concord launched in August 2024 and closed just two weeks later; its developer was shuttered. Highguard, meanwhile, launched in late January 2026 and closed in early March. The game&#8217;s developer, Wildlight, shut down operations. There have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/gallery\/live-service-graveyard-all-the-games-shut-down-far-too-soon\/2900-5747\/\">numerous other live-service multiplayer games that did not live long<\/a>, for a variety of reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Jang and PUBG Studios had a recent stumble of their own as well with PUBG: Blindspot, a top-down tactical shooter that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/the-new-pubg-game-is-closing-after-less-than-2-months\/1100-6539078\/\">closed for good in March this year<\/a> after its early-access period ran for under two months. Jang said what he took away from this was that it is important to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUBG franchise director Taeseok Jang has reflected on the string of shortcomings in the live-service multiplayer space, including high-profile examples like Concord and Highguard. He said in an interview that he has friends who worked on those games, and has tried to learn lessons from their struggles. Jang told GamesRadar that it is &#8220;really hard&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":75213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75214,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75211\/revisions\/75214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}