2 big teams AAA-Purple Mood announce “Disband” what happened to the Thai PUBG industry | Daily News

It can be said that it is big news in the industry after AAA-Purple Mood 2 big teams in the industry PUBG Thailand announced Disband and immediately released players from the team to become Free Agent players, making many people wonder what happened.

From the foreground, we can see that the eSport industry has grown a lot, both by bringing world-class competitions to compete within the country, including PNC, PGC, or VCT Ascension. Athletes or teams go out to compete in high-level events. international But when looking back at eSport clubs in Thailand, clubs that viewers consider to be big Actually, it’s not as big as we look.

Not a big deal here meansClub funds Many teams are made by private individuals and pure passion and do not have much funding. The club survives on the results and reputation, honor and the players themselves. That is the real picture that many people may not be able to see.

Which if you look deeper League level competition in ThailandThe prize money is quite small.Especially those shooting games that are currently popular like Valuing or PUBG Even though these 2 games have small prize money But the difference is that Valorant is on the rise, creating a community, and the competition is intense. There’s a league out there to get him. It can be said that the future looks good. Part PUBG is currently in a stable state. And there is still no new roadmap announced, which many people may consider to be saturation point of this game or not?

Plus the team in Thailand is currently having problems. Inflation through the roof Athlete wages, coach wages, backyard staff Contrary to the prize money received that makes even the team perform very well Purple Mood This year they finished 2nd in the Pro League and went to play in the global round 2 times, but in the end they couldn’t continue and had to announce a disband. No need to think about the situation of the team that didn’t perform so well that they had to be relegated like AAA.

As “P’Wen” It was said on X that Running an Esports team without income is difficult. Many people joke that MiTH is a team that sells shirts. I want you to understand that money doesn’t come from magic. We have to find income, more or less. Investment money has an expiration date. In which merchandise is one of the things that come in and bear part of the expenses. Basically, I can live with it. Sponsors and prize money It’s more of a principle. It can be said that you have to do other business to support eSports which is your passion.

But P’Wen also told about the inflation going through the ceiling. Even though I get prize money every year Going on world tours every year and still losing money, which is unreasonable. which even a large agency like New Happy Still experiencing this problem in 2021. New Happy Won the Chinese league championship, PCS championship, and world championship, but at the end of the year there were financial problems.

If you ask about the trend that bounces back, if you ask if there is enough? I must answer that there are some as well. For example, our neighbor Vietnam, where in 2021 the situation is quite bad as well, 2 big teams like Divine and DXG decided to disband after the end of PGI.S. After that, all Vietnamese people I think PUBG will die soon. But when the appearance of Taikonn The rising star of Cesberus eSports made CES soar in both APAC and global levels, and that was the turning point for the Vietnamese PUBG scene to become lively again. But the important question isWhat opportunity will the Thai PUBG industry have to come back and make the trend come back to boom again?

In addition, new models like Slot or Fanshine, if you don’t have a good system in place, This is even more of a catalyst for mid-level or small-level teams to gradually disappear like the Overwatch League. Currently, the league organized by the game owner has already disappeared. For many reasons, but one of them is Small teams do not have the opportunity to grow and be embraced by service providers. But there is news that there will be a team from Thailand getting a slot from Krafton. Will this make the trend come back again?

In another perspective on the matter of sponsors He began to ask questions: “Value of the brand” Is the gain from the eSport industry really worth it? This comment comes from 9arm or Dr. Thananon, a famous Youtuber, for the reason thatIt was not as cost-effective as when the money was invested. Not enough purchasing power Which doesn’t mean he doesn’t have money. But he wasn’t so into it that he would buy things from the sponsors.

P’Arm called this event an Over infection of money coming in combined with Passion causing it to grow quickly once it was past its peak. Therefore, the matter of money invested becomes the biggest issue. Which has been more than 3-4 years now. It has also been suggested that eSports is not sustainable as a major weakness. That makes it difficult to stand still like normal sports. Because there are always new games coming. Make it not look sustainable even though everyone is trying to make it sustainable in order to make the industry run further.

As mentioned above Running an Esports team without income is difficult. And now it looks like the system is about to Set Zero or Rebalance In the industry, we have to see if PUBG or Krafton sees this problem or not or how to solve this problem. We’ll have to wait and see. But if this problem hasn’t been solved yet, it’s not certain. In the near future, we may not see the PUBG competition, the original Battle Royale game, in Thailand again, although it may not be fast. But it will slowly die.

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