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”
Given the recent solar eclipse, I’m reminded of the people who stared directly at the sun and found it to be dangerously bright.
Okay, maybe he shouldn’t be Boss then, he seems to suck at his job big time.
This is “announcing I will be stepping down” material for sure, dear lord. Never seen a more ridiculous or predictable disaster
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”
If you didn’t forsee people getting pissed at a content add that costs $250 and not counted as DLC so those with the lifetime DLC pass don’t get it without paying more, you are a monumental moron and probably shouldn’t be in charge of running a business where you have employees who can lose their livelihood because of your poor leadership and incredible lack of foresight.
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.
If the guy wasn’t a dumbass he would have sold the pve edition as a standalone game and avoided all the drama.
lol guess he assumed his player base was a little more used to getting fleeced than they really were
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.
