PUBG Birthday Chicken: How to Earn the Chicken

PUBG birthday chickens celebrate the one-year anniversary for PUBG Mobile. 

PUBG Mobile is the mobile adaptation of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. First released in Feb. 2018 as PUBG: Exhilarating Battlefield in China, PUBG Mobile was developed by Lightspeed & Quantam Studio, an internal division of Tencent Games. It saw an international full release on Mar. 19, 2018. 

PUBG Mobile retains mostly the same core gameplay as its originator, with many players put in a server and fighting with equipment looted from the environment or from other players. The goal is to be the last player surviving, at which point they are awarded the memetic title of "winner winner chicken dinner."

The chicken has become a common symbol for victory in the PUBG fandom, and is thus the icon chosen to represent a special token-based currency included as part of the anniversary update. 

PUBG Birthday Chicken

The PUBG birthday chicken can be found in the Birthday Crates, the limited-time crates available to purchase which were included as part of the anniversary update. The crates contain a Birthday Chicken as well as potentially the regular in-game currencies of BP and Silver. The Birthday Chickens themselves can be exchanged for event rewards, with one per Birthday Crate. 

The Birthday Chickens included as event-exclusive currency included in timed event lootboxes is reminiscent of the Prestige Points used in League of Legends, whose developer and publisher Riot Games is similarly owned by Tencent Games. 

Community response has been lukewarm at best.

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