Why would anyone pay $150 to $250 for an advantage when it's so easy to cheat and the devs dont do anything about it?

"We are having no financial troubles." 1 line later... "It is too expensive to let people play our game." Stellar.

Man, the big wigs over overwatch 2 must be kicking themselves over their decision to cancel their PvE instead of selling it for over $200

The entire world, not just gamers, have officially escaped Tarkov.

The fun thing is that this was the game “The Day Before” scammers were trying to emulate. And now Tarkov aspired to surpass them in scamming.

One correction "they should have access for free" nope They should have access because they already paid for it. They're having access revoked because they're not paying more.

The "I'm sorry you feel that way" is some intense narcissist sauce!

general sam once said "this game hates poor people" and as a former player, it's still a painfully true statement.

Everyone is talking about "Unheard Edition" costing $250. It does not! It's $250 + Fees + 25% taxes. So actual price is around $315

Refusing to give back the $50 as a refund should be enough for a class action lawsuit. Nobody wants a useless key or coupon. They are flat out stealing from you.

Im sick of all these Reddit Lawyers who don't understand you cannot copyright game mechanics. They can't copyright phrases either, they can only trademark them. Like "Apple Inc." is a trademark, not a copyright.

The scam for those that bought the previous edition is the cherry on top but even ignoring that part of the drama, locking a game mode behind a $250 price tag is insane and more so when part of that functionality has already been replicated by modders.

I just cannot get over the price they are asking for....both times, to me the cost is mental and its still in early access as well

BSG was also notorious for not helping with people locked out of playing the game for various reasons. The most common one is saw was refusing to help with email mistakes by both the consumer and BSG. This would result in the person who purchased the game being SOL and either having to repurchase the game or wait months for a first response from BSG. They want as much money as possible and they're OK with being shady about it bc they know, "Russia".

Time to settle in and hear the story of how Escape from Tarkov 'did a Unity'.

Idk if I've ever seen a Q&A where every question is longer than the answer. Almost like it refeeds into their philosophy of "we really don't care."

PR students will study this 😂 great example of how not to handle a controversy

The "apology" reeks of lawyer corrections. Can't have an admission of guilt in case of a lawsuit if there is no actual aknowlwdgment of wrongdoing.

The most insane part, that most overlook, is that it’s 250 bucks before taxes. It costs 306 euros for Europeans.

You know, you could look at it as they having just admitted they sold something they couldn't provide and KNEW they couldn't. Sounds to me like something something criminal...

The hubris of Nikita baffles me. That guy really lives in his own little reality bubble.

It makes me really sad the Tarkov players are going from one p2w game to another(greyzone warfare). I really want to believe that gamers will eventually stop falling for these predatory practices but they keep voluntary giving these companies their money time and time again.

51,000+ dislikes vs 5000+ likes on the trailer Good

250 USD for a DLC that dont really contains a lot of stuff. remmber when 250 USD would get you a in general a fine crafted statue, an art book, a nice themed box, a Music CD or several, some gimic, some documentations or something like that, several feelies and so on. Tarkov a singleplayer mode.

Time to join managed democracy, it only requires $40 for armor, bullets, and a almost new super destroyer. Become a helldiver today! 😊

Battlestate Games: This is not DLC. Everyone else on the planet known as Earth: This content your releasing is Downloadable Content... It's DOWNLOADABLE CONTENT... DLC means DownLoadable Content... Even if you wanna get Technical, it's Downloadable Content by all definitions... Battlestate Games, what planet are you from?

I have over 4 years playing and loving this game (EOD owner). What happened was an atom bomb on the community. They tried scamming us in December with the Arena release by staggering access, but if you bought a copy, you got access straight away. They also threw Sigma (EvasionGG owner) out of the emissary program this week for speaking up, and didn't even bother telling her. Also another ex-emissary from the UK (Ironfists) today tweeted that he quit his role, and streaming fulltime, due to threats from BSG due to a tweet he put out. This is a disgustingly crap company, and they are getting what they deserve.

Crypto ad before you video... Like guys I think you might have the wrong crowd.

Exit strategy confirmed. Gets as many players to upgrade as possible before the failure. People are already looking into their finances, their booths at game shows have been very extravagant and expensive to the point you would think they were a AAA studio and not an indie. Nikata the COO of BSG is a habitual liar.

The real joke is, SPT already proves that running Tarkov on a single machine for one player works like a charm. They should just have released it as a single player edition for like 35 buckaroos.

BSG and nikita are a bunch of scumbags. As an EOD owner, I'll never give them another dollar, nor will I ever touch that garbage game again. I wholeheartedly welcome any competitors.

Good on you for not rushing the video and waiting to see how it turns out.

for a moment there i thought nothing could be higher then Destiny 2 DLCs prices but this just tops that

This is something I would expect Ubisoft to do. And I fully expect them to do.

People like to bring up the "don't like it, don't buy it", and this time it was even brought up by the developer himself, but it doesn't work that way. All of this shit is designed to manipulate people into buying stuff they either don't really need or is way overpriced. I don't want this to turn into a giga long rant about all the tiring stuff in modern "live service" games like battle passes, timed exclusivity and gambling, so I will just say this is interesting because even though a good old no bullshit DLC is in general one of the fairest monetization options you can have, the devs still managed to fuck this up by, on top of the worse issue of not delivering on their promises, making this P2W and way overpriced to get their hugely invested players to buy in. Imagine you're a Tarkov main with thousands of hours and this game is a huge part of your life. The incentive to buy this shit surely is there, if they have the money. There *needs* to be pushback, otherwise this will never end and keep getting worse. Everytime I see people defend this shit or say it doesn't matter it makes me think I'm the insane one, so thanks for your videos on these topics.

Kira branded cereal called Friendos when? I am thinking something similar to Fruit loops.

Steam needs a "filter by Russian developer" setting

Imagine paying 250$ to explore a boring, empty asset map and then die to a guy using aimbot and wall hacks anyway. Lmfao

When a company says "Everything is fine" I just imagine the dog drinking coffee in a burning house meme.

Take a mile, give an inch, wait for applause. perfect phrasing for corporations

the real question is why do they need server capacity for an OFFLINE mode, last epoch did it right there's the online app and the offline app, offline is offline local saves the lot

Tarkov felt shady when it was first released, sadly i don't trust a lot of the eastern bloc developers, seems like so many just making scam games or finding ways to scam, or outright steal from the players. Guess i was right about Tarkov. Never played it and now i never will. P2W, scamming players who paid 150$, preferential matchmaking.

Anticipating the Kira video on this whole debacle. This gon be gud.

I remeber when these game modes or King of the Hill and Elimination style matches used to be ny default included in every multiplayer shooter genere game, now its literally one game representative of one game mode, and has extra content included in later, if you beg with your wallet enough.

Add a cat/dog DLC to hideout, add rare little military outfits and accessories you can scavenge to dress them up with. BOOM, easy money flow without pay to win and scamming people with this Unheard/PvE nonsense. So difficult.

Holy hell! Increase the scale of your display settings. Need a magnifying glass to read anything.

I bought the EoD Edition once I finally hit 300 hours and had no intent on stopping. I genuinely find the game enjoyable solo and especially with friends. This though? This is beyond bullshit. I think it's a relatively open secret at this point that Tarkov is *never* going to get a full release. BSG are far too slow with updates, too willing to pad time with minor inclusions and far too comfortable with their current scheme to shake things up with an actual full release. By the time all the maps are released, all the planned updates are out, etc, the game will be nearly a decade behind the curve once competitors start creeping in, and they will...they already have. I haven't played for the past two wipes but seeing this... makes me regret being so willing to give them my money in the first place. Greed to the nth degree.

I won't even spend the $50 to buy the base game

I knew somerhing was up at the start where your inventories hard limit was based on how much money you gave them

I know you are 'late' but your coverage of this stuff is what i'm waiting for! Please keep up the great job

Developers, here's a simple checklist to determine if something is a DLC? 1. Is it content? 2. Is it downloadable? Yes to both confirms you have a DLC.

This fiasco finally made me stop playing after 5800 hours. There's a hidden perk for Unheard Edition owners and it's a dollop of shit on your upper lip.

Tarkov devs: ahh money printer go brr Also them: let's dismantle it & see if we can make it print faster

The people defending this deserve to have this company take all their money.

It's easy to understand why they choose to add more pay to win in EOD. There is an old video of Nikita CEO of BSG, taking about their first game Contract Wars, it was free to play browser team shooter. That there more cheaters there is, the more people willing to donate for better equipment, gun's ect in thinking that paying will help them win. So we have tarkov suffering from cheaters where developers most of the time do nothing and ban cheaters in waves when people start leaving game because of the amount of cheaters. Then again do nothing until community starts rebellion. And now they add even crazyer pay to win then before. EOD itself was a PayToWin already. You get x2 secure container space, more money, good gun's at start of the wipe. And you already have 0.20 relationship with all trader's, for better understanding other players will need to do from 7 to 12 quest's to progress to lvl 2 of trader's but EOD will need to do 0 quest's for lvl 2. And by the time regular player get to lvl 2 trader's. EOD players will be almost at lvl 3 or at lvl 3 on the way to lvl 4.

Friendos 10/10

I'm 100% positive that interview was conducted with an actual caveman if I look at some of the responses to the questions.

“We don’t have server capacity” is such a weird thing to hear in 2024. It’s not like back in the early wow days where expanding capacity required buying new hw, negotiating colocation space (or building a data center) and actually building everything out. More servers are a few text file changes away. There are sometimes some limits in terms of architecture like what helldivers ran into but that was orders of magnitude more than the expected traffic and still took them only a few days to fix.

Fish reporter: "Why did you decide to sell a 250 dollar expansion pack to your game?" Tarkov develo......I mean Mr Krabs: "Money!"

I would say for the most part this is the best video of laying out what happened though it does feel like a disservice with you leaving out the most recent Reddit post from BSG going over what is changing for each edition but I’ll give benefit of doubt that you recorded this and uploaded before that happened. I really appreciate your take on this and giving great opinions on this vs a lot of the other content creators like Onepeg that just milked this drama or Noiceguy that just cried and changed his name over this. I would disagree on the DLC though as when I got EOD when anything was mentioned about DLC it was always talking about stuff after the release of the game and talked about the scav life dlc as the example of what to expect. I wouldn’t consider the PvE mode a dlc and would consider it something else as it doesn’t add anything to the base game like a normal DLC would so I can understand where BSG was coming from in not originally adding access to this mode to EOD. I also don’t understand why everyone is calling stuff out as pay to win as I don’t see anything that gives you an advantage over other players in fight. Sure you can pay extra to start with some bonus gear at the start of the wipe but if your shit at this game your just gonna loose that gear to a better player, doesn’t really change the outcome. If you’re already a veteran player and start the wipe with that gear I could see an argument that it also you to snowball your progress faster but at the same time a veteran player would have already been doing that and having some starting gear isn’t going to change that.

Man i dont care about any of the games you ever talk about but i enjoy hearing you shit on devs and companies

Two hundred and fifty dollars. That says so much in so few words.

It's always good to see people who wait a little for issues to settle before they report. Cheers, Kira.

lol on the bright side, they won’t have to worry about server capacity soon!

BSG accusing others of plagiarizing is hilarious considering the sheer volume of trademarked and copyrighted content they have included in game assets.

I don't know how these gaming CEO's get their jobs when it's obvious the only thought their tiny brains can have is "MONEH-MONEEYYY!" 😂

I have zero interest whatsoever of playing a PVP shooter rife with hackers. However, I'd gladly pay $25 for a PVE version that I can play solo. You are spot on.

33:00 "So what happens if this obviously bad feature turns out to be bad?" "We can just nerf it into the ground. It's not like anyone's ever gotten mad over sudden post-release nerfs, right?"

Tarkov is like that good friend you used to be cool with but then they started doing meth and all you can do is watch them wither away slowly.

"We're sorry that you're disappointed and stupid, and we pledge to do better with dismissing your concerns in the future."

I considered buying shark cards for GTA online for a while, then I learned this secret - Wait in a public lobby for a while and someone will cheat and give everyone cash, log out, log back in and spend the cash on whatever you want to launder it :) No need for shark cards!

I feel players got what they paid for. You support pay-to-win and defend it, expect even more pay-to-win. This is why you don’t support pay-to-win.

Was waiting for you take on this. I guess killing the golden goose is like the fashionable dev thing to do these days.

At 9:43 I instantly thought of OJ saying “Hello Twitter world!”

This is a total slap in the face to the players. I had been thinking of giving Tarkov a try, but not any more. If I was a player, I'd have uninstalled and never look back.

That's so crazy that after all this time I just realized. You can mod ARMA 3 to basically play this game for free whenever you want and not only that, but you can set your own rules, assets, etc etc.

Imagine paying 3 to 5 times the price of a full game for scraps in a game that's been in beta for over half a decade.

The cherry on top of course is the addition of all of the new p2w garbage that only serves to dumb down your once hardcore mil-sim experience. So they've really fucked their game from all sides.

Good morning Kira & everyone 😊 Have a fabulous day ❤

I dont regret spending time with my friends in this game. I regret giving BGS the money.

Yah that Gray zone game really got a good launch time put right in their lap. I've seen lots of people playing it and having fun as a tarkov alternative.

The repeat mention of these "true believers" makes him sound like a cult leader lmao

The EoD thing I see differently. The EoD should have been gone after a couple months. It was a special limited edition for early supporters. That's also where they shit on themselves. If like 1% of customers had EoD, they would still make money selling DLC. Most serious players have it now and nobody would have to pay for any DLC that is ever released. So BSG wouldn't be able to make money selling stuff.

Gray Zone just dropped and its pretty good. I have never played EFT and wont now. It has PVPVE and PVE for $39.99. It's crazy they pulled this just in time to really boost Gray Zone adoption. Woopsie!

They've just made competition for themselves, "Gray Zone" was just released on Steam, with mixed ratings. The positive reviews make comments like, "At least it doesn't cost $250." When tens of thousands of people flock to a mixed-review game, and highlight Tarkov's issues in their support of said mixed game, you messed up. Bad.

There are cheaper collector's edition game bundles, with statues, art books, and all sort of goods inside, that cost less than this.

Thank you Kira.

The term DLC is so duvirced from what it originally wqs its insane. People call actual mmo expansions DLC. ESO calls their updates DLC. At this point them bullshitting and saying "Its not dlc" isn't surprising, but they are still full of shit.

I want yall to remember this when someone says “why do game developers deserve raises” and you give some snotty self righteous response about hard work.

Interestingly, Gray Zone Warfare went on early access yesterday... And the cycle continues...

Hey, just letting you know, the Chronicle of Elyria website is down, did caspian finally pulled the plug and went into hiding ? wondering if you have info on that

Also the server costs are just an excuse. They said they would never do PVE. All they would have had to do is say that they are now doing it but your offline character will be managed client side, maybe even without co-op and people would have been just happy they are getting any kind of PVE TBH. Nobody was expecting PVE at all let alone co-op so even if they just added offline progression ran on the clients PC that would have made a bunch of people happy. Then they could even look into allowing local host co-op too. You would have to get the friend with the best CPU etc to host the lobby but it would still be better than nothing and there would be no server costs for Battlestate to maintain.

Angry rant on point👌. Greed in the game industry is wild at the minute. I think we’re about to witness gamings “eat the rich” moment.

The cost of the PVE mode is because it's one of the main pay-to-win elements. Progress in gearing and rep are passed from the PVE to PVP. It allows whales to get kit and rep safely, then enter PVP ready to win.

Tarkov devs will piss in your face and tell you it's just raining.

They’re running around like a chicken without its head man this is crazy to see so publicly

They still believe the game'll release. Bless their heart or whatever.

Have a co-worker who is really big into this game has been for a while I almost bought it about a month ago...so glad I avoided this mess!!

I don't play any games anymore but I really enjoy listening to Kira 😊

Totally unrelated to this video, sorry, but I think Kira should do an epic forensic analysis or Star Citizen, from inception to now. There is so much content to go over after so many years of controversies. Such a video, or series or videos, would be Kira's magnum opus.