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New Escape From Tarkov PvE mode exclusive to pricey Unheard edition despite promises of free DLCCommunity manager insists mode doesn’t qualify as DLC
Community manager insists mode doesn’t qualify as DLC
Image credit:Battlestate
Image credit:Battlestate
Escape From Tarkov, the extractionFPSfrom developer Battlestate, recently put up a newUnheard editionof the game for pre-order, and tarkov escapers aren’t happy about it. The price for this bundle - which includes a new mode, a bigger stash, and assorted gubbins - comes in at $250, or around two actual hundred actual pounds, but the price alone isn’t necessarily what’s got a section of the player base so tarked-off that a few of them are even loudlyconsidering a lawsuit.
The actual issue is twofold: the edition is being called pay-to-win, and is also the only way to access said new PvEco-opmode, despite players previously shelling out notable nuggets for what was pitched as access to “all subsequent DLCs” as part of the now-delisted Edge of Darkness edition.
The real straw that got stuck in the craw of the camel’s albatross here, however, seems to be the issue around the promise of future content being included in the previous expensive edition. That said, players that already own Edge of Darkness will receive a $150 discount on Unheard, bringing the price down to $100. Or two and a halfHelldivers 2s. Or, like, sixBalatros. It’s still a lot of money, is what they’re saying. Which it is.
The official Tarkov account have also put out a statementon Xitter, echoing much the same sentiment.
It is a bit of a slippery slope, I think, veering into the territory where ‘DLC’ starts to mean whatever the people charging for it want it to. I’d say a game mode probably qualifies, although I’m not familiar with how Tarkov usually does things. What do you think of it all? Should individual developers get the last word on what they feel comfortable or correct charging for, or should there be some sort of definitive standard content should meet before it warrants a price tag? I paid fifteen pounds for a portion of chips with curry sauce and some nuggies yesterday, and I reckon that sauce should have been on the house. It wasn’t even especially good sauce.
