They destroyed their game in a single move. Both by undermining their consumers and biggest fans and also by making a pay to win feature to summon teammates in PvP. Pretty impressive.

The magic 8 ball is so hilariously accurate. Whole community feels betrayed and he's just giving the shittiest most vague answers. This feels fake, it's so awful.

To be completely honest, every answer to every question might as well have been "Fuck you."

full game? you are paying 250$ bro. this is the full deluxe+ ultra version of the game.

He could have sayed "if you are broke boys just say so"

No company can be worst than Blizzard... BSG: Hold my vodka..

Imagine buying a "Premium Edition" and then being told that it wasn't premium enough. Absolute trash, I can't wait to play this game for free in a year.

They're so honest they changed the $150 package text without letting anyone know.

"Its time to understand who are the true believers" You know shit went wrong when the CM talks like a cult leader

Nikita's still ignoring the fact that EOD was promised ALL SUBSEQUENT DLCs. He can talk as long as he wants about it being "too expensive" to give PVE to them but he SOLD it with the product clearly defined and is now breaking that. this isn't a disagreement it's unlawful.

"How do you feel about the backlash from your recent release?" Developer: Shakes 8ball, "Fuka Yu, give us money" 🖕

"Everything is going according to plan." - I heard that line before lmao

He went full "special military operation" .....Never go full "special military operation"

The way I feel watching this all go down in real time is like seeing an old friend walk out into the middle of the road with a gas can in hand. Slowly unscrew the cap, placing it on the ground... Casually pouring out the contents on their head, placing the empty can on the ground... Reaching into their pocket to reveal a match, lighting it, and then staring directly at me, with a blank stare, as it burns down like a god damn fuse, before being engulfed in flames. What a fucking trip...

They are litteraly the meme of the dog sitting in the house fire saying everythings fine

Proudly announcing our latest FAQ: "Q: What are your plans in the future? A: no hablas ingles Q: What will be the monetization mechanic you intend to implement? A: por favor me want to go casa Q: And finally what will be the specific plans regardles custom DLC and the public outrage over this? A: i don't work here Q: Any closing statements? A: try dogs again later" Hopefully this shed some light we do our very BEST to be transparent with y'all.

"we cannot give it to everyone its expensive" Meanwhile its 250$ and i can buy almost buy 4 AAA games with that money. And like 6 or more fully complete indie games for that same price of their PVE. Nikita is literally out of his mind

This is how it feels like talking to government

this is actually so crazy, its like they were told beforehand; „hey the goal for this is to say as many wrong answers as possible“

absolutely crazy they asked will you be doing anything to fix this and they just straight responded "no"

Nakita is an actual Skyrim NPC

That burning meme "Everything is fine" yeah... that's our community now.

I think Nikita made a really thought out response with “try asking again.” And “probably not” and who could forget the classic “Definitely yes.”

btw, a lot of people were saying the dev had poor English to explain the brevity in his responses... Nikita spoke English quite fluently in the long Q&A interview I saw

The amount of cope coming from BSG… It’s insane. PvE is expensive but SPT is FREE???

how to kill your own IP 101

The oblivion music in the background reading his answers lmaoooooo

This was the same energy as the Dan Schneider "interview" after Quiet on Set came out

Worst part is there are still streamers and other players who bought this edition straight away and they couldn't care less.

Anyone still playing the game, at this point, after everything that's been said and done, deserve exactly what they get.

Basically the cheaters ruined our game for new players and we are slowly bleeding out current players, so we have to try and suck money out of the existing players. I expect this is a last ditch effort to get a boost in cash before they abandon the game.

Their response to committing fraud is "emmm, what?" Someone get a lawyer on these idiots.

I am continually astounded by the remarks of how allegedly expensive this whole PvE mode is. *The base game has already had an "offline" PvE practice raid mode within the base version for ages* , and has been fine. Like... how hard is it to implement a feature where you can invite a friend/party member into an "offline" raid and then maybe just add a little shit to the mode or whatever to make it special? Logically speaking, it just doesn't make any possible sense how it could be such a ridiculously effortful task to put behind a paywall. Let alone a $250 paywall, yeah gtfoh with that.

Basically BSG sold EOD as an ultimate edition you get everything, then let thousands of copies of EOD edition be sold making it worthless instead of having a set number of editions that helped BSG set and accomplish goals to progress the development, now they can’t afford to give EOD owners the new DLC because 90% of the players are EOD owners, BSG needs you to basically re-buy the game for $100 and get the content you should already be getting

dude you are so good comunicating!! Thaknks for the update!

They also pulled a money scheme when arena came out they gave it to streamers only first week but they said you will get arena first if you bought the game a long time ago meanwhile people who made new accounts and spent 35$ on arena got instant access while people who bought the game 6 years ago had to wait a week

this shit is unheard of who pays 250 dollaroos for a game. Unless you have been finessed to play destiny.

This just in, tarkov devs are getting all their responses from the magic conch

hes talking to an AI right? like this isnt a real response is it

How can they say “we cant give PVE servers to everyone its to expensive” YET throw a $250 price tag on a DLC 😂😂😂

I'm going to call it right now. they are going to do the ultimate rug pull in probably a year maybe less. after they sell the initial influx of the unheard of edition copies (if anyone buys that shit) then they will (finally) release the actual game, resetting everyone, revoking everyone's access to EFT and all subsequent DLC, and recharging for the "full release" (because its in alpha or whatever right now, has been for like 6+ years I believe) and the best part is.... they will charge for the same DLC again...

The craziest thing for me is that this game still hasn't been "released"

I'd been curious what is this Tarkov game I keep hearing about. I no longer want to know.

sounds like a warning of "oh we're about to lose the game, lets try to get the most money before it happens".

When I bought the EoD edition I noticed that the company had actually done the math wrong on their sale which resulted in some people getting over charged by about $16. I pointed this out on the reddit and all I got in response was a bunch of people trying desperately to find any way to defend the company. That’s how I know the game isn’t going to die because of this. There are plenty of idiots who love this game who are willing to let themselves be scammed.

PVE is too technically expensive.... I find this hard to believe all you need to do is make PVE self hosted so you dont need to spend company server resources

24:20 best reflection ever

This answering method is like when your girlfriend is either mad at you, or when you are talking to a girl who has the least amount of interest in you lol.

Bro asked ChatGPT to answer the questions for him.

True believers? Well that's a joke if you ask me almost cult like lol

The problem with the other extraction shooters is that none of them tried to do what tarkov did. the closest thing I know is Marauders but that's not attempting to be a realistic milsim. People say GZW but thats not even out for the public and has said to be lacking in content currently.

the oblivion NPC music had my crying that was so funny

There is a CO-OP SPT mod called "Stay In Tarkov". Playing it right now with friends. We have our own modded server.

Of course he's doubled down, he's got a bunch of new jet skis and a lake house he's got to pay for this summer.

Your magic ball reference is gold. Everything you said has examples as to why this will happen if there isn't another experience like Tarkov just like 2014 wow they hold too much power to lose there dominance in the market. The examples you use helps most audiences all understand your point (eg debuffs). Asmon thanks for the insight.

Well there’s always Ghosts of Tabor VR made by combat waffles studios. Highly recommend. They are taking notes and VR devs on average have already learned from watching flatscreen game devs mistakes.

“I feel you but I am the most confident right now as ever, stay strong”. Had me in literal tears 😭😭😭💀💀💀

Devs: "'Doing nothing' is going just fine. Every bit of the 'doing nothing' is going according to the plan we happily don't have."

Broooo that opening interview had me 😂

I think there is already a game similar to EFT but it's single-player only, actually it's a mod for a mod for a game from 2004, it's called STALKER GAMMA or another mod that tries to imitate EFT called STALKER EFP

Well... We gave him a chance... Don't tell him we didn't warn him: Since BSG (as in Battlestate Games) is a Limited company registered in the UK, consumer protection laws should apply. A collective lawsuit is potentially brewing here. It's likely not even an unprecedented case here. Similar arguments could be made for... Say Doordash or Ubereats did something like that. You pay 150$ and there will be no Delivery cost for the rest of your life. Now years down the line they start to retroactively change that contract and state, well now that we swapped to Electronic Delivery Vehicles, this doesn't apply anymore, they aren't part of "delivering", when they clearly are. Imagine a Car Company that you pay a set sum for lifetime Tire change starts retroactively infringe on your contract stating sh!t like "No these new things we put on they are only 99% made of Rubber, that 1% is something else so technically this isn't a tire anymore". I dunno. There should be a ton of ways to explain this logic to the boomer prosecutors and judges, in a language that everybody in the court room can easily understand.

A magic 8 ball and a fortune cookie had a child named Nikita 😂

“I’m sorry. My responses are limited. You must ask the right questions.”

Ubisoft will not take being out-done lightly

Good thing I didn't bye eod. The thing they promised no future dlc payments for. I only payed 25 dollars and got screwed over by needing to grind to upgrade the storage system. (This type of weird pay to win stuff is why we're mad) Tarkov players spend thousands of hours to just get treated like trash. Go play dark and darker, or dark souls, or huniepop

I like the "people were unhappy with the way we conducted our statement" instead of "we said some bs"

The magic 8 ball killed me.

I'm not a tarkov player or a lawyer, but being that a lot of this stuff was promised to players that bought the previous $150 version and then the product page was retroactively changed, does this not open them up to lawsuits? That would class as false advertising, right?

“Is the company going down” *everything is fine dont worry* Yeah they were burning down before this

almost seems like some sort of ironic/parody self-immolation

The Elderscrolls BGM that's playing is very on par with the NPC answering those questions.

Imagine SP tarkov and its multiplayer mod should make a large portion of that pie graph soon.

The worst case scenario for Tarkov is if the player base continues playing but refuses to pay any money. They still have to pay for the bandwidth but they get nothing in return - and that's where I think they're at. I'm taking a break from it but I'll still play in the future - but they won't get money unless they get their head out of their ass.

i just imagine two russian mafia guys with lots of facial scars typing this out while sipping on vodka.

"it is a important moment in the history of eft". Indeed it is, because you get slapped with a Lawsuit. I'm atleast doing my part and I was speaking with my attorney today. You won't get away with this, I won't let you get away with this. WE WON'T LET YOU GET AWAY WITH THIS, NIKITA!

please editor make a video of Asmon asking the questions and the answers appearing on a magic 8 ball lol

They respond like I respond to mandatory surveys.

Sounds very similar to "there has always been female custodians"

There was a game some time ago, Scavengers, that was pretty good.

I love how they say “servers for co-op PVE would be too expensive”, meanwhile Helldivers 2 is 40 bucks, and the only server issue they ever had was they had so many people that they had to buy MORE.

An important thing to note about the summon pmc feature they want to add, is it just makes it easier for RMT traders. "You want a red keycard? Get the money ready and ill summon you when i aimbot someone"

Honestly, they could have gotten away with it if they just released PVE as its own standalone title. That way the could keep the EOD edition relevant AND still get $100 bucks extra from those who want to only play PVE without pissing the entire community off.

1:30 How is it expensive? It's an offline mode...

The question is longer than the answer.

Shits sad I have 5500 hrs just uninstalled earlier today it’s time to find something new

Class action Lawsuit! 300€ refund for the 150 EOD 7 year's ago plus inflation and 50 Cents per hour played and we got traumatized because from Nikita's mouth " This game will damage your brain".

Gonna really need that priority que when your player base dies

It takes like 5 mins to load in how would the avengers item even work

What happened to Asmon playing the souls game about himself.

This is like the Prigozhin of gaming

I’m not angry about a price of the new edition because they said there will be a new edition after new year more expensive and unheard edition doesn’t include tarkov arena. Till that point I’m ok but for me EOD edition should include all what unheard edition and arena. About that radio device in my opinion it would be a nice add on if also would be possible to get it for free from quest, also It should be a delay like 5 min for friends to rejoin the game and if owner of device dies signal should be lost - it would be nice for teams to save gear after some good pvp - so the winners can loot everything but whoever would be recall shouldn’t be able to help the team to win the fight.

Imma be honest in a few weeks every tarkov streamer will come back and people will play the game again, yes it was THE dumbest move they couldve ever done but that game wont die. You know it, I know it.

The downfall of Tarkov will be studied one day.

The only other known extraction shooter although a lot different is hunt: showdown, around 20k players average.

damn the title remind me of diablo 2 secret cow level but the cow king is battlestategames CEO.

What a fucking joke. Good thing I bought only cheapest edition which is enough for SPT.

Don’t worry boys Gray-Zone early access will release next week I’ll see you there. o7

You should've red the answers in a drunk christopher walken voice :D

Tarkov really showed their hand on how much they care about their players with this one. They sound annoyed asf

Let’s put it this way I saw more blue names today than not blue names let that sink in..