{"id":90458,"date":"2026-10-01T11:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90458"},"modified":"2026-10-01T11:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:37:18","slug":"pubg-black-budget-canceled-joining-live-service-graveyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90458","title":{"rendered":"PUBG: Black Budget Canceled, Joining Live-Service Graveyard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PUBG publisher Krafton has pulled the plug on its extraction shooter spin-off\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/pubg-black-budget\/\" data-type=\"games\" data-id=\"664824\">PUBG: Black Budget<\/a>. Announced less than a year ago and already through several closed alpha tests, the publisher&#8217;s reasoning for the cancellation is simple: it believes Black Budget simply wasn&#8217;t fun enough to keep potential players\u00a0engaged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;After reviewing the project&#8217;s development status and future direction, we concluded that its current direction would not allow us to deliver an experience players could enjoy over the long term,&#8221; Krafton wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/app\/4077740\/view\/675133527946166413?l=english\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/app\/4077740\/view\/675133527946166413?l=english\">Steam update<\/a>. &#8220;We have therefore made the difficult decision to end development of PUBG: Black Budget. PUBG Studios will carry what we learned from development and testing into future projects, continuing to listen to players as we explore new gameplay experiences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Black Budget is the second PUBG spin-off to get the axe, following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/the-new-pubg-game-is-closing-after-less-than-2-months\/1100-6539078\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">demise of the tactical shooter PUBG: Blindspot<\/a> in March. While the game launched in early access, Krafton closed it down after two months, saying it was &#8220;no longer able to sustainably provide the level of experience&#8221; it set out to deliver.<\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1902764\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"576\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Black-Budget.jpg?w=636\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1902764\" \/>PUBG: Black Budget <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Krafton&#8217;s reasons for cancelling Black Budget aren&#8217;t without<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUBG publisher Krafton has pulled the plug on its extraction shooter spin-off\u00a0PUBG: Black Budget. Announced less than a year ago and already through several closed alpha tests, the publisher&#8217;s reasoning for the cancellation is simple: it believes Black Budget simply wasn&#8217;t fun enough to keep potential players\u00a0engaged. &#8220;After reviewing the project&#8217;s development status and future&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":90460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90458"}],"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\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90461,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90458\/revisions\/90461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}