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ylai@lemmy.ml to Gaming@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

Tarkov studio claims it actually doesn't have the server capacity for everyone who bought the game for $150 to play its upcoming PvE mode, still wants players to pay extra

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Tarkov studio claims it actually doesn't have the server capacity for everyone who bought the game for $150 to play its upcoming PvE mode, still wants players to pay extra

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ylai@lemmy.ml to Gaming@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago
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Battlestate Games continues to assert that this upcoming mode does not constitute "DLC," and is thus not part of the $150 bundle.
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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    Who the fuck is paying $150 for a fucking video game? Sounds like suckers who got scammed

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      *for a new game mode in an existing game

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        Actually the game mode is on a pack selling for 250$

        People who already bought the 150$ price only get a 6 month free trial of the game mode.

        Or they pay an extra 100 to upgrade

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          $250?! What?! Why??

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            Why are you concerned? It still costs 250 but if you already spent 150 then you can get it for 50. All is well

            (Kill me)

            • bastonia@lemmy.mlBanned
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              You did well pig, you did well.

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        The $150 isn’t for the new game mode. People that paid $150 were told they’d get all DLC. The devs are saying this isn’t DLC and these folks will get it for free once the game is out of early access. People that paid $250 can play this now. People that paid any more will have some level of discount to purchase access to this mode.

        It’s all in the article.

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          Star citizen taught them well.

          • verdigris@lemmy.ml
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            There’s nothing remotely close to this in SC history. Also full access to SC is actually less than the cheapest Tarkov package.

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              How much have you pledged?

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                I think $55 total? $35 for my initial package and I spent $20 a few years ago for a cooler starter ship because I was enjoying the game and wanted to support development. I think the $35 package is now $45 – I bought in on the original Kickstarter – but that price gets you full access to the game and all the ships/hangars/etc… you just don’t start with them, and instead have to earn in-game currency to buy (or rent) them. I wouldn’t want a super expensive starter ship anyway, it skips too much of the early game progression.

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      It’s actually 250 euros for the top tier (267 $us)

      I mean, seriously, what the actual fucking fuck?

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        My brother plays games with in app purchases and he claims to know people who have spent $100K on their profiles. I think building a fire using the cash would be less wasteful

    • Ricky Rigatoni@lemm.ee
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      Rubes.

    • mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml
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      I play hearthstone and spend more than that every 3 months to get a complete set of the expansion (well actually now that I think about it, it’s about $150 every three months or so).

      I play a lot so my value to time ratio is pretty good but yeah…I don’t really buy any other games.

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    If only there was a way for dedicated fans to run their own servers for PVE co-op with friends…

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      Is there?

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        No. And considering how they are gatekeeping the feature behind a 250$ purchase, it is very lucrative for them to keep it that way. Unless shit hits the fan and the players decide they won’t pay.

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          Apparently there is! There is a mod for SPT called MPT (now renamed to fika). It has a github but the download is only available through their discord. Took me a while to find it. Gonna see if we can get it working tomorrow.

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    They are a Russian Developer with contacts to military units who support the war in Ukraine and also mocked Ukrainian with screenshots in their game…so why expect you no shitty behavior from them?

    Stop supporting them and let their game fail.

    Sources:

    https://babel.ua/en/texts/80120-escape-from-tarkov-and-war-thunder-developers-keep-silent-about-the-war-and-stay-friends-with-the-occupiers-world-of-tanks-creators-are-still-on-the-russian-market-trying-to-please-everyone-and-save-p

    https://ain.capital/2022/12/30/escape-from-tarkovs-developers-showed-the-middle-finger-to-the-stylized-soldier-of-the-ukrainian-armed-forces/

    https://www.reddit.com/r/behindthebastards/comments/16kicn6/escape_from_tarkov_is_full_of_vatnik_propaganda/

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      Source? I would love to confirm this. If it’s true I will stop playing instantly

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        From what I found they have made no comment other than “they will not leave any markets due to war”

        As for being Russian

        “We have a mix of talent, some veteran developers, some new to game development. But everyone loves guns and FPS games. One of the studio leads is actually a former Spetsnaz officer, the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Special Forces.”

        • Nikita Buyanov https://www.polygon.com/2016/6/3/11841338/escape-from-tarkov-has-us-excited-about-the-hardcore-survival-genre-again
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          I am aware they are Russian, and I don’t expect them to actively condemn the invasion, as it would be dangerous for them. If there is proof they were actively supporting the war or mocking Ukraine, that’s a different story.

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            I am aware they aren’t Russian

            they are a Russian developer, they moved their office to london but still maintain their office in St. Petersburg

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              Sorry typo.

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          They moved their office to London (wonder why…) but part of the team still works from their origin in Russian St. Petersburg. And here is what I’ve found:

          https://babel.ua/en/texts/80120-escape-from-tarkov-and-war-thunder-developers-keep-silent-about-the-war-and-stay-friends-with-the-occupiers-world-of-tanks-creators-are-still-on-the-russian-market-trying-to-please-everyone-and-save-p

        • Phegan@lemmy.world
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          Thank you

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        And this happened more than once, so that is a long-term partnership. Buyanov recorded joint videos with Dmitry “Goblin” Puchkov, a Russian translator and blogger known for his anti-Ukrainian stance. And Puchkov himself was a guest at the Battlestate Games studio.

        Nikita Buyanov and his company actively partnered with companies in the Russian military-industrial complex. This group actively funds and supplies separatists, they ask for donations to supply their members who are going to fight in Ukraine, they participate in podcasts from occupied cities and Tarkov’s developers prop up their platform by including them (in no small capacity) in their game.

        One of the new traders they are planning to add into the game is named “Khokhol” which is an anti-Ukrainian ethnic slur used by russians. There is also a feature in the game where you can become a character called a “Scav” when you become one you are assigned a random russian name, sometimes they are memes like “garandthumb” or “robokop” but in their depravity, there is a chance that your character can be named “Hohol” which you see when you die, or other players see when you kill them.

        The developers of Escape from Tarkov, the Russian studio Battlestate Games, have published several new screenshots of the game. As Artem Lys noticed, on one of them the character shows the middle finger to the player in pixel uniform and with yellow tape on his hand, which clearly symbolizes the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

        https://babel.ua/en/texts/80120-escape-from-tarkov-and-war-thunder-developers-keep-silent-about-the-war-and-stay-friends-with-the-occupiers-world-of-tanks-creators-are-still-on-the-russian-market-trying-to-please-everyone-and-save-p

        https://ain.capital/2022/12/30/escape-from-tarkovs-developers-showed-the-middle-finger-to-the-stylized-soldier-of-the-ukrainian-armed-forces/

        https://www.reddit.com/r/behindthebastards/comments/16kicn6/escape_from_tarkov_is_full_of_vatnik_propaganda/

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    Fellow gamers, if you don’t push back against this nonsense now, you will be living with this treatment as customers for a long time, if not forever.

    Anti Commercial-AI license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

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      This. People paying hundreds for a skin in CS and hundred for a new game mode that they might not even get into are the reason things we get games like Suicide Squad.

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      I’ve been seeing this for a while, why do you put a cc notice on your comments?

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        I’ve been seeing this for a while, why do you put a cc notice on your comments?

        This comment by me explains why.

        Anti Commercial-AI license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

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    Grey Zone Warfare is almost done, why would I give money to tarkov devs, especially now that everyone can plainly see they’ll do shitty shit to their playerbase?

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    Interesting aside - gamers continue to enable these thieves by “leasing” their products. Boycott? No?

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      Many streamers are actively boycotting right now

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    This makes me happy I never got to play Tarkov.

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    I was a big fan of the game. Always thought it had potential to be great. I had already quit this wipe pretty much as soon as I hit Max traders. Don’t think I’ll be returning back next wipe.

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    Not one of the stupid people whod pay for that. So whats the problem?

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      The previous most expensive option ($150 I think) included all future DLC. Now they added this game mode and charge $250 for it, and the players who payed extra earlier don’t get it included.

      Also, I’d totally return to the game for a while for this mode assuming there aren’t wipes ever. That’s my issue with the game. I don’t like losing all progress every few months. I don’t want to play the game enough at once to reach the end game in that period. I only payed for the standard edition though, and I sure as hell am not paying $250 for this.

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        Look into the SPtarkov mod. It is regretfully only single player but you can just relax and sometimes do a mission or 2. It also has mod support to remove the things about the game you find tiresome.

        Every now and again I fire it up and play a map or 2. I have had the same character for over a year now.

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