Industry News / Upcoming Games

[Antimatter]

Have we accepted, in general, the idea of a Season Pass as a way for studios to continue working on new content after the game's release?

How about charging extra for content that is ready to play on release day? The decision to lock a whole mission behind a Season Pass and promote it as a "Day 1 Exclusive" can do nothing but upset players who have been planning to spend $70 USD on the game already.

Star Wars Outlaws locks Jabba the Hutt mission behind $110 premium edition | VGC

Players will have to buy the Gold Edition to access the mission at launch…

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[Chronicler]

Day 1 DLC is not great, but I'm not immediately seeing how packaging it in a Season's Pass is any scummier than it already was. That being said, I've never played a game with a season's pass, and am only going by the article's description of how they work.

 

[Antimatter]

I have never been ok with BattleState Games (developer on Escape From Tarkov) because they supported the invasion of Ukraine. Now there is a chance Escape from Tarkov players will leave en masse.

How Escape From Tarkov wiped out years of goodwill in one catastrophic week

The $250 Unheard Edition should have been unseen.

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"How to kill your insanely popular 7 year old game in 2 days": Escape from Tarkov's Latest Statement Throws Fuel on The Unheard Edition Controversy

Escape from Tarkov, the multiplayer first-person shooter title from Battlestate Games, has been the talk of the town for all the wrong reasons. The developer

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