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Escape From Tarkov studio boss says he "did not foresee" players would get mad about charging extra for PvE (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/games
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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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[–] EdibleFriend 70 points 2 months ago (2 children)

On top of all that the fucking game is still early access.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I migrated my emails to my own domain and needed to change the address on every service. They don't even allow changing the email address for years now, judging by their faq. It's fucking embarrassing.

[–] ArtVandelay 27 points 2 months ago

That's typically an indicator of piss poor database design, where they likely use your email address as some kind of unique identifier

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

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