Oh, I've never played that version. But handheld ports of games in olden days are usually on the shit-tier. Even if the achievement of porting it is commendable.
If anyone wants to hate this guy even more: listen to the Behind the Bastards episodes on this guy. It's a 6-parter, so you know it's going to be good.
Pubg wasn't the first. The crown for that is for H1Z1 or Z1 battle royale as it's known these days. It was a dayZ clone with a stand alone battle royale version.
Even H1Z1 wasn't the first if you include mods for Arma, minecraft, DayZ and probably more.
I am aware it's different. All I'm trying to say is either make it single player, release dedicated server software or keep supporting it. You sold it as a product. Don't remove access to a product.
For the future maybe. For games that were sold one day, they would have to either keep supporting it, or release server software.
It is up to the gamers to keep supporting this practice in the future.
I can still play Unreal Tournament '99 and 2004 even though the servers are offline. I can even still play it online with the server ip and even use the server browser with fan mods.
You can't say the same for the crew when it goes offline.
That's not a metric. There's a local league for damn near every sport in most developed countries. That doesn't make the sports popular. It just makes it a sport in a competitive setting.
Oh, I've never played that version. But handheld ports of games in olden days are usually on the shit-tier. Even if the achievement of porting it is commendable.