Wolfteam videosunu hazırlarken aklıma o dönem Türkiye'de inanılmaz popüler olan bir oyun geldi. Point Blank. 103 milyon kayıtlı oyuncusu olan bu oyun nasıl oldu da bir anda buharlaştı? Pay-to-win, hile skandalları, turnuva yolsuzlukları ve daha fazlası bu videoda.
👇 Yorumlara en güzel Point Blank anını yaz!
📌 Wolfteam videom için:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPMb0hoMkSQ
🔔 Kanala abone olmayı unutma, böyle videoları kaçırmak istemezsin!
Bu kanalda, oyun ve teknoloji dünyasını hikâye anlatımı ve analiz perspektifiyle ele alıyorum.
Oyunların kendi hikâyelerinden, oyun endüstrisinin perde arkasına;
teknoloji devlerinin kuruluş mücadelelerinden, sektörün geleceğine kadar
derinlemesine ve bağlam odaklı içerikler üretiyorum.
📌 Bu kanal:
• Oyun hikâyeleri
• Oyun & teknoloji analizi
• Endüstri ve kültür perspektifi
• Podcast tadında uzun anlatılar
🔔 Yeni videolar için abone olmayı unutma.
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👇 Yorumlara en güzel Point Blank anını yaz!
📌 Wolfteam videom için:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPMb0hoMkSQ
🔔 Kanala abone olmayı unutma, böyle videoları kaçırmak istemezsin!
Bu kanalda, oyun ve teknoloji dünyasını hikâye anlatımı ve analiz perspektifiyle ele alıyorum.
Oyunların kendi hikâyelerinden, oyun endüstrisinin perde arkasına;
teknoloji devlerinin kuruluş mücadelelerinden, sektörün geleceğine kadar
derinlemesine ve bağlam odaklı içerikler üretiyorum.
📌 Bu kanal:
• Oyun hikâyeleri
• Oyun & teknoloji analizi
• Endüstri ve kültür perspektifi
• Podcast tadında uzun anlatılar
🔔 Yeni videolar için abone olmayı unutma.
#pointblank #pointblanktürkiye #pointblanknasılbitti #pointblankçöküş #pointblankhikayesi #pointblankbatış #pointblankunutuldu #pointblankkapandı #pointblankdinozormodu #pointblankfreerebels #pointblankctforce #pointblankkaosmodu #pointblankyumrukmodu #wolfteam #wolfteamvspointblank #sonsilahs2 #fpsoyunlarıtürkiye #piercingblow #projectblackout #pointblankhile #pointblankskandal #pointblankpaytowin #pointblankturnuva
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00:00While making the Wolf Team video, I remembered a game that was incredibly popular in Türkiye at the time.
00:04Point Blank.
00:05You know how in internet cafes, if you have a Wolf Team poster, you'll almost always have a Point Blank poster alongside it?
00:10They both hung on the walls almost like rivals.
00:13Back then, when you went into an internet cafe, half the people were playing Wolf Team, and the other half were playing Point Blank.
00:17What made Wolf Team special was being able to be a wolf; what makes Point Blank special is being a dinosaur.
00:21You'd team up with a stranger at the cafe, and when you won the match, you'd love him like he was your best friend.
00:25And of course, when you lost, you blamed him/her.
00:27And for a moment I wondered. What happened to this game?
00:30How could a game with 103 million registered players be forgotten so quickly?
00:34This is what we'll be discussing today.
00:35But first, don't forget to subscribe to the channel. You wouldn't want to miss videos like this.
00:40Point Blank was developed in 2008 by Zepetto, a small South Korean company.
00:45He came to Türkiye in 2010.
00:47Now think about this. What games were we playing in Türkiye in 2010?
00:50Counter-Strike, Wolf Team, Night Online – there was the FPS culture, but something was missing.
00:55Point Blank fit perfectly into that gap.
00:57Because back then, playing Counter-Strike required bringing five people to an internet cafe.
01:01In Point Blank, you could play online as much as you wanted, with any players you wanted.
01:05This alone made the game very appealing.
01:08But what really made the difference was their style.
01:10Point Blank had modes that you wouldn't find in any other FPS game at that time.
01:14It had a headshot mode.
01:15There was a chaos mode where you could kill someone with just one Merve.
01:18There was a punch mode.
01:19But most importantly, there was the dinosaur mod that came in 2012.
01:22Imagine, in 2012 you could be a dinosaur in an FPS game.
01:25You would choose any dinosaur you wanted and then try to eat the people in front of you.
01:29Which other games had something like this at that time?
01:31And this mod changed the fate of the game.
01:33Point Blank has started to compete almost neck and neck with Wolf Team.
01:36Internet cafes have been divided into two categories.
01:38Cafes that play Wolf Team and cafes that play Point Blank.
01:41There were even times when Point Blank surpassed Wolf Team in terms of player count.
01:45By 2013, Point Blank had reached 103 million registered players.
01:49That was an incredible number at the time.
01:51The game was at its peak.
01:52Everything was fine.
01:54Until something happened that same year.
01:56It is important to understand this.
01:58Point Blank existed during what was arguably the craziest period for online gaming in Türkiye.
02:02Games were emerging from all sides, and everyone was trying to steal each other's player base.
02:06During this period, Point Blank had two major rivals.
02:09One is Wolf Team, the other is S2, the final weapon.
02:11Wolf Team has been around for a long time and already has a strong fan base.
02:14When Point Blank came out, it started to shake Wolf Team's dominance, but Wolf Team wasn't sitting idle either.
02:18The two of them followed each other constantly.
02:20One person would introduce a new mod, and the other would immediately add something new.
02:23This competition actually boosted both games.
02:26Because there was always something new happening for the players.
02:28But the real dangerous opponent turned out to be S2.
02:31The latest weapon was released in 2013 and became an integral part of Point Blank.
02:35From where?
02:36Because it took everything Point Blank did.
02:38He added even more features and offered them for free.
02:40In Point Blank, the things you had to spend money on, even the last weapon, were free.
02:44Point Blank had limited content, but the final weapon was plentiful.
02:47And the players noticed it.
02:48Gradually, the transition from Point Blank to the final weapon began.
02:51This transition initially seemed small, but over time it grew exponentially.
02:55And then, of course, there's the League of Legends issue.
02:57At that time, League of Legends was running an incredibly aggressive marketing campaign in Türkiye.
03:00It was advertised everywhere, and Turkish players who were unfamiliar with MOBA culture...
03:04He continued to gravitate towards FPS games.
03:06But some of them, out of curiosity, switched to League of Legends.
03:09This has also shrunk the overall player pool in the FPS genre.
03:12So Point Blank is simultaneously battling Voltim and watching the rise of the ultimate weapon.
03:17Meanwhile, League of Legends was eroding the player base.
03:19He had to fight on three fronts at once.
03:22So what caused us to lose this war?
03:24This is where the real problem begins.
03:27Think about the year 2013.
03:29Point Blank tops the list with 103 million registered players.
03:31It's competing head-to-head with Voltim.
03:33Dinosaur mode is incredibly popular.
03:35Everything seems fine.
03:36But it was at this point that Zepetto made a huge mistake.
03:39They made the game completely pay-to-win in order to make money.
03:42So it has become almost impossible to play properly without depositing money.
03:46Weapons, characters, equipment—they all required money.
03:49And this directly affected players who didn't deposit money.
03:51Because they stood no chance against the players who had invested money.
03:54Imagine you go to an internet cafe and pay by the hour.
03:57And on top of that, you need to invest money within the game.
04:00This was unacceptable for the Turkish player.
04:02And the players showed their reactions in the best possible way.
04:05By quitting the game.
04:06But it's not just about pay-to-win.
04:08The cheating problem had reached an extreme level.
04:09There was at least one cheater in every match.
04:11You wrote complaints on the forms, but nobody cared.
04:14So far so good, but the real scandal emerged from somewhere else.
04:17There was cheating even in tournaments.
04:19Moreover, they're not ordinary players.
04:20Tournament players who had close relationships with the game's own GMs were using cheats.
04:25Videos were taken, evidence was presented.
04:26It was uploaded to the forms, everyone saw it.
04:28So what happened?
04:29Nothing.
04:29Those players continued to play in tournaments.
04:32No one was sanctioned.
04:34Point Blank had turned into an environment where money circulated and nepotism and favoritism were openly practiced.
04:39And then there was the issue of illegal trade.
04:41Some administrators were colluding with players to sell e-pins.
04:44Zepetto wasn't receiving the commissions that should have gone to him from these sales.
04:47So money was flowing in from both outside and inside the country.
04:49Seeing that the situation was getting worse, Zepetto looked for a solution.
04:52And he decided that the solution was esports.
04:54They organized an international tournament.
04:56Sounds good, doesn't it?
04:58But do you know how many people watched that tournament?
05:00250 people.
05:01I can't even begin to describe how much of a disappointment this organization has been.
05:04And that's where the vicious cycle began.
05:06The developers weren't releasing updates for the game because there weren't enough viewers.
05:09Cheating was increasing because there were no updates.
05:11Nobody was playing because cheating had increased.
05:13No money was coming in because nobody was playing.
05:15Because no funds were coming in, no investment was being made in the servers.
05:17And the game servers started crashing every two days.
05:20In fact, Point Blank has gone down in history as the game with the most server errors because of this.
05:25Over 1800 server errors.
05:27There was no turning back now.
05:29Now I'm going to tell you something that very few people know about.
05:32Point Blank was never actually released under a single name worldwide.
05:35And this name confusion was one of the biggest obstacles to the game's global growth.
05:40The game was known as Point Blank in Türkiye and Asia.
05:43But when it arrived in North America, its name was changed to Project Blackout.
05:47Not only the name but even the game's backstory was changed.
05:50So it's the same game, just a different name.
05:52That's a different story.
05:53Then, in 2014, another name change occurred in North America and Europe.
05:57Project Blackout was now becoming Piercing Blow.
06:00Imagine the same game being released under three different names.
06:02You ask a player if they play Point Blank.
06:05The guy says, "No, I'm playing Piercing Blow."
06:07It's the same game, but they don't know what the other is doing.
06:09This name confusion completely prevented the game from building a global community.
06:13Players in Asia were unable to meet with players in Europe.
06:16The tournaments were divided.
06:17The content was different.
06:18Each region was playing its own game.
06:21Piercing Blow came to Steam in 2015.
06:23This was her last pregnancy.
06:24But it was too late.
06:26In 2018, the North American and European servers were completely shut down.
06:29Although the game continues to live on in Southeast Asia under the name Point Blank, Beyond Limits, the story was long over for Türkiye.
06:36In conclusion, the story of Point Blank can be summarized with a very simple formula.
06:40They played the right game at the right time, but they didn't make the right decisions.
06:43It was released in 2008, arrived in Türkiye in 2010, reached its peak with the dinosaur mode in 2012, and reached 103 million players in 2013.
06:51Everything was perfect up to this point.
06:52But at the very top, greed began.
06:55The pay-to-win system drove players away.
06:56When cheating increased, nobody was left.
06:58The servers crashed, the money didn't come, the updates didn't arrive.
07:01A vicious cycle began, and they couldn't break free.
07:03And on top of all that, a formidable opponent emerged, their final weapon.
07:06S2's latest weapon did everything Point Blank did, but better, and players switched to it.
07:11Zepetto had no answer to that.
07:14Because he had neither the money, nor the energy, nor the confidence of his players left.
07:17And then there's the global name confusion.
07:19Point Blank, Project Blackout, Piercing Blow.
07:22Three different names, three different communities, a player base that could never come together.
07:27It is still played in some parts of the world today.
07:29It still has a small following in Russia and Southeast Asia.
07:32But for Türkiye, that game is long gone.
07:35And that's sad.
07:36Because Point Blank was a really good game.
07:38I haven't experienced anything like the feeling I had running around that map in dinosaur mode in 2012 in any other game.
07:43That feeling is gone.
07:44That era is over.
07:45That game is over.
07:46I hope watching this video brought back some memories for you too.
07:49If you've played Point Blank, write your best moment in the comments.
07:53Don't forget to like the video and subscribe to the channel.
07:56See you later.
08:10Thank you for watching.
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