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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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[–] avater@lemmy.world 113 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] Carnelian@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] aksdb@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Talaraine@fedia.io 11 points 1 year ago

I'm sure he got a bonus instead. The "C" in C-Suite stands for Certifiable. Literally divorced from reality. Needless to say they don't earn their pay at all but all the wannabees on the board keep throwing money at them because they want their shot to be a do-nothing, too.

[–] Wrench@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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"

[–] SRo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

He's just the typical russian troll

[–] Zess@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] thisisnotgoingwell@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Source? There's no publicly available info on player counts other than BSGs word, so I'm calling BS

[–] HeavyRaptor@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is definitely a buzz, the SPT (single player Tarkov mod) servers have been constantly overloaded for days now

[–] thisisnotgoingwell@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes but the comment i replied to is insinuating that EFT active players are up despite the community backlash

[–] homicidalrobot@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I believe it. Multiple friends of mine updated to play and see the streets changes when this press cycle hit, a few even shared footage of suspicious noiseless head/eyes deaths while they were in enclosed spaces. If it has been long enough, just the words escape from tarkov will send some fans back, negative experiences suspended.

[–] yokonzo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] avater@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year 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

[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 70 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] Senseless@feddit.de 17 points 1 year 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@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Ashtear@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year 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.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

lol guess he assumed his player base was a little more used to getting fleeced than they really were

[–] GrymEdm@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Zellith@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

"I looked at the eclipse and now my eyes hurt. What do I do?".

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

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

[–] OofN@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

EoD is edge of darkness. It's basically the most expensive version of the game which was originally offered and was supposed to include all subsequent dlc, hence the outrage(ridiculous pay to win features and price aside). SPT is a modded version of EFT(escape from tarkov) that let you play the game single player and added a bunch of cool stuff. BSG(Battlestate games, the publisher/dev studio) didn't like that so they would copyright videos that used SPT. It's a whole mess

[–] nul9o9@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So many acronyms lol. What is SPT?

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Single player tarkov?

[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago
[–] mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

Even if I have the EOD I really hope EFT gets dumped and new games of the same genre come alive. I fucking hate the devs, they are even worse than EA or UBISOFT in terms of caring about the game more than money. The old prices were already a fucking scam.

Their netcode is trash, the game is full of hackers on wipe starts and mid wipe (basically were the fun is). Plus if you aren't a fucking streamer that plays 15h a day the game you are pretty much fucked up.

I hope gray zone gets better and outruns them.