Escape from Tarkov developer Battlestate Games has attempted to address a controversy surrounding the game's Edge of Darkness and Unheard editions, but the studio seems only to have succeeded in pouring more fuel on the fire.
Battlestate has come under fire for the newly-announced Unheard Edition of Escape from Tarkov, which promises access to a co-op PvE mode that the now-discontinued Edge of Darkness Edition does not include, despite pledging to offer access to all future Tarkov DLC.
The developer's argument is that the new co-op mode doesn't constitute DLC and is instead a "unique feature" of the Unheard Edition, and as you can imagine, that justification hasn't gone down well with fans.
Earlier today, a Battlestate rep took to Reddit to address the ongoing controversy surrounding Escape from Tarkov, pledging that Edge of Darkness owners would receive "new unique features".
These features include a 20% increase in personal trader buying limits, as well as unique gear, "high priority matching" for six months, and "access to offline PvE", again for six months.
Battlestate says that the temporary PvE access will be implemented "as soon as we...reinforce server infrastructure", since this mode uses "totally different servers" of which there are a "limited amount".
Despite being an attempt to address the controversy, this move hasn't gone over well with fans. Many of the comments beneath the announcement are from incensed fans, with very few (if any) comments taking Battlestate's side.
One commenter decries the new features as "more pay to win stuff" and "not what [the community] wanted", while another pithily provides a dictionary definition of the phrase "false advertising".
This seems to be the tone of the vast majority of the comments below the Reddit post, so it's clear that the community isn't happy with these changes.
We'll have to wait and see what Battlestate does next with regards to this ongoing controversy, but it seems to me that what the developer has done so far won't be enough to quell the flames of its community's ire. Stay tuned for more.
