Krafton, the company behind PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (from now on, just PUBG), took a dim view of how its content was leaked by a person who mainly was monitoring the game’s files…

PlayerIGN is a known data miner on PUBG. For that reason, we can treat him as an accepted member of the community… but now, in a Twitlonger, he has accused Krafton behind the battle royale game of having a private investigator knocking on his door, and by implication, threatening PlayerIGN to stop leaking about the game. The investigator allegedly made several demands that were considered untenable, and as a result, he is thinking of taking legal action.

If it is true, then Krafton is trying to threaten in a rather bizarre and scary way because PlayerIGN has not hacked into the company’s servers, has not gained unauthorized access to unreleased builds of the game, but is simply looking through the data and files of the version that is available to everyone. Sometimes others contact him with information of this kind, which is common in the games industry. So there are no irregularities.

“A private investigator was just outside my house just now handing me a letter re: Krafton having me take down all my social media posts of leaks, provide a full accounting of how much revenue I made, and provide all DMs of how I got said info. I don’t know what to do right now. I just want to get some help before making moves,” PlayerIGN says.

Because of it, he has not been active on Twitter since May 25, and it is not known how Krafton even found out where PlayerIGN lives. Several websites have contacted him, but he is not commenting, and Krafton does not want to say anything more on the subject. All PlayerIGN has said, “The data mines I get of their skins are from a website that gets updated early right before Test Server goes up. It’s HTML. I [right-click > save] the images.”

Krafton might want to relax a bit because we don’t hear such stories from Epic Games, even though they have Fortnite…

Source: PSL