Ted has been thinking about PC games and bothering anyone who would listen with his thoughts on them ever since he booted up his sister's copy of Neverwinter Nights on the family computer. He is obsessed with all things CRPG and CRPG-adjacent, but has also covered esports, modding, and rare game collecting.
as the biggest unforced error of the week in PC gaming, Escape From Tarkov dev Battlestate is still holding firm that players who bought the $150 Edge of Darkness edition of the gamein the game—one where your progress persists between server wipes, no less. That feature was announced as part of a new $250 Unheard Edition—even though the $150 EoD edition promised access to"all future DLC" for Tarkov.
The second paragraph then has an eyebrow-raising secondary explanation for why Battlestate is holding so firm on this: that"the PvE mode is necessarily located entirely on a separate network infrastructure, because, essentially, you play on our servers, only in closed mode. Battlestate says that the server capacity will increase in time for Tarkov's full release—whenever that may come, the game is still technically in early access—and $150 EoD purchasers will get full, permanent access to the PvE mode at that time.
And I'm just still hung up on this DLC/Feature distinction that Battlestate is burning all of its goodwill to uphold. Ok, let's say it is a"feature" and not a"DLC," shouldn't a"feature" added to an early access game be even less of a vector for monetization? I've paid $20 for games in EA that have never asked for another dime when adding new stuff.
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