The announcement was brief, without offering much explanation for the closure: New downloads of the game are already no longer available, having been switched off on March 30th. The closure of the game itself will happen on April 29th at 5am UTC/6am BST. Unfortunately, we have made the difficult decision to close service after much deliberation and the time has come for our journey to end. We regretfully inform you that service of PUBG LITE is scheduled to end on April 29th, 2021 (UTC). PUBG Lite was designed to be “playable even on computers and laptops utilising integrated graphics.” The game therefore looked worse than the full fat version of PUBG, but it was otherwise much the same game while running on machines with dual core CPUs, 4GB of RAM and no graphics card - a long way from the specs for the daddy version of the game. Lite rolled out across parts of Asia in early 2019, eventually winding towards Europe in October of that year. I’d imagine this closure will disproportionately affect players in those regions where access to higher spec PCs is harder to come by. Remember when we used to call PUBG “Plunkbat” and people were mad at us about it all the time? That feels like it was roughly one billion years ago.
