Weekly Gaming Update by Pinoy Gamer! Lets talk about Garena Philippines shutting down, PLDT and Smart internet problem outage, Ragnarok M Eternal Love open beta schedule, Epic Games cheater lawsuit, Discord Store, PUBG Halloween event, and Ember Sword Bitcoin MMO.

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PLDT / Smart Internet Problem
- Did you notice a slow internet while browsing or lag issues when playing games?
- Well apparently a few days ago PLDT and Smart users are affected by an outage
- Not only internet was affected but also sms and voice calls according to a post by PLDT themselves
- Well apparently this is due to a break on optic links caused by DPWH road construction
- Base from the statement users in North and Central Luzon are affected


Ragnarok M Eternal Love OBT
- The Ragnarok M Eternal Love Close Beta has started last October 20
- Since this is a close beta not all players will be able to play
- and finally the Ragnarok M Eternal Love Open beta has been announced to start on Ocotober 31 2018


Epic Cheater Lawsuit
- Recently epic games sued a Fortnite YouTuber creator for allegedly injecting unauthorized cheat software into Fortnite’s code which provides him unfair advantage against opponent’s
- Also mentioned in the lawsuit is that this YouTubers are also uploading videos that demonstrates hacks which encourages players to do the same

Discord Netflix for Games
- Recently launched its Discord store on beta for all regions which includes free games for Nitro Users
- According to an interview with Discord, “its kind like a netflix for games”

PUBG Halloween Event
- PUBG Corp showed a footage for the Upcoming Halloween event
- In the video they showed a silent hill like nurse, a pumpkin mask and a peni wise like clown outfit

Ember Sword Bitcoin MMO
- Do you like MMORPG games and Bitcoin?
- Well Ember Sword might be a game for you
- Because Ember Sword is a modern free to play MMORPG which is powered by Ethereum blockchain where players can own, build, and monetize lands

Garena PH Shuts Down
- According to their reports “Garena SG HQ has abruptly closed the Philippine office of the Game publisher effectively cutting off 95% of its current Philippine workforce.”
- and currently they were also informed that the only remaining Garena PH team left are the finance team which will probably there to give severance package to its previous employees
- So why was it closed?
- Well we think its about money
- if the branch is not earning enough profit then there is no point operating it
- so in short pera pera lang yan
- another reason which majority of local publications are citing to is the aforementioned crypto mining script that hijacked LoL PH clients.
- Will my account be deleted? what will happen to matchmaking?
- Well we believe that they won't get affected
- why?
- because the headquarters for the SEA servers are in Singapore to begin with