Overpriced? The game is $45, that makes it cheap actually. STALKER games were all $50 on release.
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Except the Season Pass (surprise)costs at least $40; and the only way to get it right now is to buy the "Edge of Darkness" edition which costs $140!!
Makes me wonder how much content we're actually getting for $45, and how much got stripped to get more pre-orders\DLC purchases.
What makes you think anything is getting "stripped out"? The different tiers give you access to the game at different stages of development.
You pay through the nose for the "Limited Edition - Edge of Darkness" edition to get access to the Alpha phase, you pay less for the beta and the $45 for the release version. Its a fairly common model now for games ( though the top tier is still eye watering ).
I don't honestly know about the DLC part, have you any links to what they are proposing?
There's more to the different tiers than just access to different stages of development. I get wary of DLC being announced\sold before we even know what the full game is going to include! I don't know for sure if anything is getting stripped, but it seems kind of fishy to me.
But the game looks amazing and I will still be watching it
Thanks for the link, the guy does bring up some interesting points but it really doesn't mention anything about stripping of content.
I would agree that there are more questions than answers at the moment as to how things are going to be handled. However I do think some things are going to be different in EFT as opposed to say Dayz. When you start in Dayz you don't have anything weapon wise. Here it looks like ( as we are playing PMC's ) you start with some weaponary.
So will this give those that buy the top tier an advantage? Frankly, yes, but thats a qualified advantage, by that I mean, a bullet to the head is still a bullet to the head, whether that bullet is fired from a tricked out AK74 with holo site or a bolt action rifle from WW2 with iron sites. There are other variables such as tactical ability, shooting skill and lets not forget best of all... luck! If I come across someone facing the other way, he's at an immediate disadvantage no matter what he may have in his extra large stash or is carrying weapons wise.
It is very early days and I hope that they give this some serious thought so it isn't going to create a sub class of "Elites" that can't be touched. I also hope the DLC aspect is handled equally as well. So far there hasn't been anything I have seen to suggest otherwise. Fingers crossed!
I agree with the guy in the vid that JoJo posted when he said "don't get TOO excited about EFT" and blow $140 on all the so far non existent bells and whistles.
On the other hand, I'm a BIG shooting sim fan so after seeing the vid that RSharpe posted in the other "Excape from Tarkov" thread, I'm already TOO excited.
The weapon modding alone already looks INCREDIBLE!
to get into the Alpha you have to have a specific package purchased.
They are going to have a limited number of keys to give out. They are going to randomly give them out based on what package you buy.
news letter signups will receive 25% of the keys Left Behind Package will receive 25% of the keys Prepare for Escape Package will receive 50% of the keys
Edge of Darkness package guarantees you get access to alpha.
Keep in mind that it is currently in alpha and the only guarantee access to alpha is the Edge of Darkness version. Every other version you have a random chance to gain access but not a guarantee until beta.
Though 30% off the EOD edition seems like a good deal.
Is it my imagination, or are about 90% of the games coming out today being done in Russia?
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Not just Russia but eastern Europe. That whole region is is a hard recession with really low wages and there are tons of programmers without work. It is easy for a studio to snap up a few hundred coders for cheap and crank out a game. These people are working horrible hours for #%&*$# pay but they do make some good games.
As for this, I'm not buying into anything ahead of time for money like that. I preorder under 2 circumstances: 1) it's a sequel to a game I've already enjoyed and I'm pretty certain that it will equal or surpass the previous title, and preordering generally gets you a discount over release-day pricing and I'm going to get it on release, or worse case scenario it's full price BUT I'll get all the DLC which will otherwise cost more later 2) it's an early-access title of some type with a significant discount over regular release pricing, more like what it would cost on sale a year after release, and I'm willing to try it for less
To pay more for a game via preordering, just to get a bunch of extras that I'm not sure I will care about (or know I will not care about), is not something I will ever do.
Yeah, maybe a dozen years ago I started preordering games because I was worried they wouldn't have a copy in the store when I went to buy it. Digital DL has eliminated that problem, so preordering is no longer needed.
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