Usually. This time, I think it might be different. Starfield is coming out in a time of live service games, and the way they talk about it, they are going for a really long-term support with plans for contents over years and everything. So this time, it could be different. Maybe.
Let’s say an extremely perilous maybe. They provided support for 76 and once they’d finally put in the game, they introduced a lighting glitch that made it impossible to see when inside overworld interiors. I’m not sure how common that bug was but it still wasn’t fixed for me after a few updates so I uninstalled and never looked back. I know it’s a sob story but Bugthesda have never failed to fail me at this point so it’s a heavy vote of no confidence for me.
Anyone know if Nexon is a concern for this game? I haven’t heard much about them recently but their shitty practices from way back then (and continuing) from their older MMOs doesn’t inspire confidence.
From my experience playing the Finals, it seems the developers have quite a good grip on creative freedom and how they monetize (the only exception is the cosmetic battlepass “upgrade” for additional superfluous cosmetics), and there haven’t been any elements of P2W that I witnessed.
The game was only available to play in limited time play/stress tests. It obviously wouldn’t be present in a stress test.
That doesnt mean there is going to be P2W in the released game, but it seems somewhat disingenuous to say that you didn’t witness any P2W, since there wasn’t an opportunity for it yet.
Based on every other game in the genre, there’s usually at least some amount of convenience or power you can buy so I would expect some to be added at some point, maybe not on day 1 of release though.
The finals =/= Arc Raiders (The finals has been released since 2023 and has been actively updated to the present day).
They are developed by the same studio (embark), but Nexon is their parent company now. The reason I left the future ambiguous is because I don’t have access to their internal planning.
With that being said, none of the updates or available purchases within The Finals have had P2W or predatory elements for 2 years, so I’m inclined to believe they will stay on the right track.
You can check the FAQ on Nexon’s or Embark’s websites (official site ran by Embark) about Arc Raiders if you want to see their plans in writing:
Yeah, I’ve spent 0 money on Finals but have all the Battlepasses over the past 8 seasons. And got extra in game currency to buy more cosmetics without spending money.
And for the gameplay itself which is the most important aspect there is no pay to win.
I just hope that if “everything becomes an xbox” like they have stated they want to accomplish, that I’ll have access to my full library of titles via pc.
They’ve destroyed their brand through a million cuts over the past decade
It would be interesting if they did what they did with the windows MR VR headsets and let 3rd parties design devices based on a kind of template of sorts. So you could get an Acer Xbox and an Asus Xbox. Considering they are just small pc’s
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