GTA Online has already solved PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ AFK farmer problem

If you wait until the end of the flight that unleashes 100 people onto a murderous island in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, the game will automatically kick you out. At this point, you may look around and see that a handful of other bodies are floating to the ground with you, and fans of developer Bluehole’s last-person-standing shooter are worried that many of those idling Battle Royale participants are jumping into games with no intention of ever playing. But this is an issue that developer Rockstar has solved with its Battlegrounds-like Motor Wars.

Going AFK as a solo player in a 1 vs. 100 match of Battlegrounds isn’t that big of a deal, but it could begin to spoil the fun if more than three or four people are doing it at a time. And according to anecdotes from PC Gamer magazine, that is exactly what’s happening. People choose to do this because they can often get 30-to-50 Battle Points, the in-game currency, by outlasting the first couple dozen competitors. That currency racks up over time and enables players to afford loot crates that could have items like hot pants or skirts that are worth a lot of money on the Steam Market.