This has to be the funniest PR disaster in video game history. “Guy did not forsee players getting mad for locking a gamemode behind a $250 edition, doubles down on it and tells people to chill out”

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    8 months ago

    Okay, maybe he shouldn’t be Boss then, he seems to suck at his job big time.

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      8 months ago

      This is “announcing I will be stepping down” material for sure, dear lord. Never seen a more ridiculous or predictable disaster

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        8 months ago

        Reminds me of the Volkswagen boss when their emission cheating leaked. He said he didn’t know. Wow, you earn millions for managing a company that big and then claim to not know about something. The fuck did you do then? So either he was lying or admitting that he didn’t do his damn job. Both cases should have lead to him having to give back whatever he “earned” in his position.

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        I used to play EFT, and he would periodically say stupid shit like this regularly. Like reliably 2x a year at least.

        He’s extremely out of touch with the fan base, and gets upset at the “toxic community” for complaining that the “early access” game (for what, ~8 years now) has major game breaking bugs still, and most importantly, has been overrun by hackers for many years.

        Imagine an MMO where all the epic loot is randomly spawned in a free for all battle ground, and the hackers can see all items on the map, vacuum it up remotely, and leave the lobby before legit players could even sprint there in a straight line.

        And then the lead dev says “man, you guys whine so much, get over it”

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        8 months ago

        Pretty sure it’s a pair of brothers isn’t it? Am I remembering that wrong?

        I think you mean the russian brothers from The Day before

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      8 months ago

      The game recently had a big spike in players after selling an overpriced DLC. Seems like his PR stunt paid off.

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      8 months ago

      This was the news to me on this whole mess. I knew about Ark but hadn’t heard about this one. Shameless.

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    8 months ago

    When you sell a package that promises all DLC and you then sell a DLC before you even release the game, you can get fucked.

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    8 months ago

    Given the recent solar eclipse, I’m reminded of the people who stared directly at the sun and found it to be dangerously bright.

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    8 months ago

    If the guy wasn’t a dumbass he would have sold the pve edition as a standalone game and avoided all the drama.

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    8 months ago

    I’m sad I spent so much money on the EoD edition, but I’m so glad I found SPT to make the game I wanted EFT to be. Fuck BSG, I won’t play this game online and I won’t give them a single cent more.

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        8 months ago

        Single Player Tarkov. It’s a mod that replaces player PMCs with modified AI, plus allows the installation of numerous other mods.

        Basically perfect for people who love the gunplay and gameplay loop, but don’t care for the playerbase.

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    8 months ago

    CyberPunk 2077 did a similar thing. Seems to be a new pattern. Promise free DLC to drum up support. Charge for the DLC. Wait for things to cool down. Do it again.