Lets not forget BSG editing their website live as twitch streamers like Lvndmark were calling them out on their bs, like removing the "unique" from the "unique secure container" aka Gamma container from EoD editions so they could give it to the $250 Unheard edition... [Also] Getting special P2W features like being able to call in ppl from your friends list or calling in a friendly BTR is just the cherry on top of it all.

Its called a beta test because they want to see how much abuse these people will take

i wouldnt care about getting cheaters in matches if the cheaters actually got banned in game... ill never understand how someone can just move at 500 mph or be invincible and the anticheat just cant notice that? i feel like an anticheat from 1999 would be able to notice someone doing that

Just an FYI BSG also does not ban cheaters hardware or ip when caught. You can buy the game as many times as you want regardless of cheating. You only need a mew email. Nikita also is on the record talking about how cheaters fund video game production so it's great for him but bad for the player. So he sells stuff to players to combat the cheaters(see the beacon that calls in your friends list to help anytime during a pvp raid. He's always been a pos. We few have been saying this for ages. We were ridiculed and attacked by fanboys. Glad they got to see their daddy for who he is now!

The biggest scam was when games went digital at the same price they were charging for a packaged and distributed game.

Cheaters definitely make them money, and Nikita admitted this in an interview. Back a month ago when this started, a few clips were being shared of Nikita at a dev convention. Look them up, he admits they end up contributing to sales. This isn’t a conspiracy theory anymore, it’s a fact.

“keep the player in constant discomfort=prolonged profits and less expectations”- nikita like 5 years ago

The content that can be downloaded is not downloadable content. Truly some of the most amazing mental gymnastics trying to justify that one

I'm a long term player of this game and I own the edge of darkness edition on the basis I would get all future DLC for years I have looked past all the bad decisions, poor management calls, balance changes to combat cheating that negatively impacted the game, zero communication or customer support, the fact it took until THIS YEAR to get a vault mechanic!! poor game performance, blah blah the list goes on but this was the final straw, you said it best in this video "you can fuck off" A great game that has slowly been destroyed buy its creators

The BK WHOPPER WHOPPER ad that I got at 26:05 was perfect comedic timing

Bless you Richard, I needed this for my Monday

24:00 no fucking way, my gf just showed me that Steven Seagal song last week because she's into that music and i fucking lost it when you brought it up

a lot of my good friends really loved Tarkov, stuck with it despite the cheating, but now they're definitely done with the title. Great video Richard.

"Weapons Grade Balonium" im weakkkkkkkkk fam

I am one of those people who had this video recommended due to being a Tarkov player. I have a couple of things to add. Nikita co-owns BSG with Dmitri. There are no shareholders etc. Nikita allegedly lives in Dubai nowadays too. I felt that this was clearly Nikita wanting more money for his new lifestyle in the rich boy's country of choice. Also they tried something similar with the release of Arena in December. There was a staggered release, which took a week or more, or you could get instant access if you bought Arena, even if you had EOD without access yet. That too was a FOMO money grab.

"For the same game!" Exactly, great comment.

Yeah the greed and incompetence are at an all time high in gaming. Then you get the been there and done that triple a game design on top of monthly subscription with battle passes or repetitive seasons passes. If you avoid that then it's assets flipping cash grabs garbage.

Bolognaium is a phrase I never heard but will now adopt it into my vernacular. Thanks Rich! That is some gold right there. haha

'Steven Seagal can fuck off' - is 100% a Ska bands album name

I bought EoD 3 years ago but I've only been playing SPT with it and I'm having the time of my life.

Even worse that Singleplayer Tarkov was meant to be the default state of the game where you then unlock multiplayer once you worked your way through the SP experience. Hilarious, I've literally never loved a game as much as Tarkov and I have never hated a developer as much. This last wipe there was a bug where if you crouch walked it just made 0 sound. If anyone here has played Tarkov will know just how game breaking that is. They fixed it like 2 weeks ago and it had be there for MONTHS. They are completely stupid but the lead dev loves flexing his 20k Night Vision Goggles online lmao.

What's batshit insane is you usually deploy PvE to ATTRACT the casuals, not milk all of the good will from your PvP-centric playerbase. There is nothing about this entire situation that isn't utterly mad. Charging $100 for a feature in a game that hasn't been released yet is the entire model for Star Citizen, so I suppose the CEO here may have thought he was being rather conservative.

4 bangers in 4-5 days? Richard, you spoil us.

It actually is PAY TO WIN because you have a bigger secure container, meaning you get to keep more items per run regardless of whether you die or survive.

Every time I'm done watching one RL video, there's always another one

i aint paying em a penny more. i downloaded SPT and ive never been happier. mods and fun and no cheaters.

would be cool to see you talk with Veritas and JesseKazam about tarkov on their podcast

I've been playing SPT and it's been awesome!

I got EOD years ago cause I thought I would get all DLC's, I even bought of the clothing they dropped a couple of months ago cause why not. This wipe I was playing almost 40 hours a week, but since they dropped the unheard edition I play maybe 2 hours a week now. For me it killed the remaining magic of the game. It feels like a lot of legit players who actually bought the game are not playing as much and the only people playing are hackers now who bought the game with a stolen credit card or the lobbies are just dead. I actually thought to uninstall it from my computer with how little I have been playing it. It's just not fun and I just don't care anymore. Oh well that's life I will figure out something else to waste my time with. Maybe I will return in the future, who knows... who cares really.

The worst part, EOD users got Arena, Unheard had to buy it. They added more P2W features in Unheard. I feel dirty playing EFT.

Wow richard covering the bsg debacle, this is the timeline i want to live xD

Another thing regarding the pricing is that they don't do region based pricing. So in the EU you would also have to pay VAT over the 250 euro.

For Honor kinda had a PvE mode behind a paywall. It is an Arcade mode with a procedural quest system where you fight boss-type AI bots with modifiers etc, but you can still play any of the base game modes against AI without it so it's not like *all* PvE is locked. The worst was that it was part - and couldn't be bought separatly - of an expansion which gave 4 new heroes, but if you unlocked those for free with the in-game currency, there was no possible discount, so it was a mandatory $30 for it. (I finally got it for like $5 2 months ago and they recently announced the mode would be free for everyone...)

4:49 straight fire ❤

They ban cheaters. in waves then put the game on sale. They literally are farming cheaters for cash at the detriment of other players. I do have access to PvE though and it great (when I can queue) as I no longer have to worry about cheaters, just cracked out AI. Also about 50% of EOD players have access to PvE so I'm interested in seeing what happens in 6 months when they are suppose to loose access.

I was waiting for this. I played it last year, got sweaty with it and then I realised how many cheaters are along with rats and it just got boring. After you grind its just gives you the feeling of been there done that and the actual gameplay isnt offer any fun, cause how much weight they put on the hideout/stash/quest mechanics. Arena couldve been something with esport potential but the game/engine has ridiculous desync issues.

Mind u 250 bucks before taxes so in the end youre looking at over 300 bucks

I got the PVE mode because I’m an EOD player. Haven’t touched PVP since myself and the boys got access, so much more fun just roaming around the the lads not worrying about someone hiding in a bush with AP-50

I'm curious to know your thoughts on Star Citizen and its effect on the gaming sphere

A couple of tarkov OGs go pretty in depth on this topic in their podcast named “the pogcast” if yall are interested in more info

As far as i know, yakuza yotd was the first game i heard that put a mode behind paywall

Just as BSG thought the dust had settled... out comes Rich with a banger of a video.

I've been seeing tons of blatant cheaters lately. I go afk a lot but I have blue tooth headphones so I can still hear. Being afk with good gear in an empty room is a total cheater magnet. Random nades flying through the windows and wall bangs after 5 minutes of me doing laundry in the other room and making zero noise in game.

YES TARKOV CONTENt

I completely concur. I've personally (and so have all my tarkov buddies) been having a blast with ABO. Its genuinely baffeling how good the game plays and FEELS. Also the few cheaters I've seen. Ive reported and I shit you not they have been banned within 24 hours. And several legit got banned minutes after they killed me. I'd say 98% of my raids have been cheater free. And I've played a LOT.

Alright so I got access to PVE as one of the first EOD during the "I'm sorry :3" wave, here's my 2 cent : They never had the server capacity to support even 20% of the EOD playerbase. From the day I got access, I've quit trying to get in a raid multiple times, after sometimes up to 30 minutes of trying to requeue. Last time it happened was at 5:30 in the morning, GMT+1. It's not even that special, though I like the mode, it also needs *tons* of work imo, but the waiting times are killing it even more. And that's with [unspecified number]% of EOD players and the couple of Unheards. I'm really starting to believe they overpriced it as a way to gatekeep it, somewhat. Because as it stands, it's not a 100$ experience, it's not a 50$ experience, one could argue it's not even a F2P experience.

Loving the new content especially the Bethesda stuff.

Genuine question for Tarkov players: I only played 2 wipes, 1-2years ago. Other than Arena mode, what exactly has been “DLC” that base edition players haven’t had access to? Nothing right?

Man i remember back to 2017 playing before the sweats, what a good time i had being scared as f but also having fun. Sadly i also remember the wall hacks being super easily available, btw the very same cheat that were still available until 2023. When you look into the specific cheat i am talking about, its actually a crazy story. The devs basically didn't even expect bsg to be that incompetent and got so ballsy that the only thing that stopped them was their own government 😂

But doesnt it say "EoD owners will get PvE mode "DURING" early access. Cant that mean its only during early access and not after release?

bsg have never been good with anything regarding community or user experience, both inside the game and out, but an extra layer on the bullshittery cake they've pulled is not too long before this Nikita Buyanov did an interview with one of the biggest EFT content creators Pestily, where they discussed alot of the communities frustrations and (although Nikita looked like he'd rather be falling off a building that in that interview at times) it did seem like he was taking (at least some of) it on board, which was reflected with some changes to the game in the following weeks, like its mental how they went from one extreme to the other -- they literally removed the 'Access to all subsequent DLCs' line from the EOD edition as the streamer LVNDMARK was on the site, he had to get on the fucking wayback machine just to see that again... I think they've honestly been lucky that a good alternative hasn't been available on the market, but that's starting to change with games like GrayZone and Arena Breakout** that will start to apply pressure onto BSG in that they cannot continue to pull these same stupid stunts and expect people to take it on the chin. It is a shame because the game genuinely was one of a kind, and despite it's issues you could not (honestly still cannot) get that experience from any other games in its genre, but it's got a bunch of fucking chimps at the wheel who seem hellbent on making the worst possible decision at each turn. Idk if its where I'm getting older but games used to be fun, idk what happened in the last couple years but the influx of cheaters in (what feels like) every fucking game punishing you for no reason, the predatory game studios trying to get at your wallet at every opportunity, and the fact people take them more seriously than their actual fucking life really do make me think maybe they're just not worth your time anymore. **which tbh is an absolute disgrace in terms of how outrageously blatant the plagiarism of escape from tarkov, copying the exact keystrokes for all actions, and even the in-game lootable items (but its a tencent game so what do you expect?)

server priority 15$ a month is coming soon

Best hit up the modded pve game before it's DMCA'd into oblivion

Star Citizen has something like this on sale for 48.000 Dollar

I've had fun with the game over the last several years and BSG kept saying the right things, so when the upgrade went on discount I upgraded because I wanted to support them - and in return i'd get future DLC, right? Nope! They won't even give me the new clothing for free, it's up to $12 per set. Sad thing is until there's a decent alternative a lot of people will keep coming back for more abuse, but not me. I won't uninstall yet but I'll be playing other games until, or if, they ever get their shit together.

Dude u look like Pestily + Nikita Buyanov

Fortnite pve is locked behind a paywall. Was the original game but the battle Royale blew up. They said they were going to give pve for free after a year and you still have to pay for it to this day

Fortnite's wave base builder used to be paywalled years ago, while the Battle Royale mode was free

Played my first game of premier yesterday and got a cheater. Luckily they were on my team and we kicked them. I also noticed that the top player on the leaderboards in NA has 60 matches played and a 100% win rate lol. Unfortunately when you queue normal comp nobody uses a microphone.

Id be fine with $60 bucks for a game if it was also not shit. Paying "full price" for a game that is basically a mislabeled Beta is fucked. I'm looking at you BF2042

Its such a cool game how can they fuck it up this badly is beyond me.

The VAC update is already bypassed by cheats, Rapidfire was detected and causing the "game is suspended" message but now its already back in use. U can't dodge cheaters in cs unless you got very lucky or play faceit.

A good investigative journalist needs to look into the massive conflict of interest in this game when it comes to the obvious fact that when bsg bans a cheater, its 40 dollars in their pocket when that cheater buys a new account. Not to mention that when they do a big ban wave, they coincidentally sell the game on sale in “family” bundles. WHO is that really for? Does anyone actually buy 5 copies of a game at once? I know who would though… cheaters who are making money rwt’ing. Its in bag’s best interest to keep cheaters prevalent

Cheaters do make them money. When the cheaters get banned they just buy a new account.

I despise game hackers. Why even play if there's no sense of accomplishment? There's no faster way to kill a game.

Ultimately it's their game. If you pay for it, you're telling them you're ok with this. the money decides what happens. You decide where to put your money. Once you'll pay it, they'll charge for it.

Tarkov is one of the best games in concept and “in a perfect world.” but my god the meta and the cheaters do make it much less fun.

I won’t even pay for the standard edition because of the cheaters

Been enjoying SPT.

I don't even play this game, damn you guys are getting bent over no lube

Its good to see you shine light on this for the outside world to see. We would be grateful if you investigated further, because tarkov and BSG have been an absolute Trainwreck for the past couple of years, showing that they never expected the success they had from twitch drops, and never were able to cope their selfmade downfall. Tarkov is the best example for an rather unexperienced Indie-dev building a small but loyal community, then finding infinite money glitches and getting fucked by scopecreep, incompetence & lack of experience. We hate Triple-A for many reasons, but i guarantee you we would have a washed down but solid liveservice by now. Took 10 years for something like Arena:Breakout to come along apparently, and its only a matter of time until a big developer will try their hands on something like Tarkov which will be the final nail in the coffin. Twitch Drops drew in a crowd that was never supposed to touch the game. Now the community was split into e-sports andys and fans of the original vision. The Problem was that BSG took too fucking long to implement major features of their original vision, which would have turned off the e-sports andys in the first place. Because they had tec issues pretty much from the beginning, mainly unity just not being suited for this game. It was never supposed to be a fast paced, pvp focussed arena-shooter, that has twitch tournaments. So they were stuck in a limbo between two very different crowds, combined with a very stubborn lead-dev who took too long to realize what changes are good and which are bad, and where his original vision wouldnt work out. And now the time is starting to run out, and they are supposed to start working on their next game already, which will be a single player focussed game, and would build on the stuff they made and learned from EFT. - BSG dont care about the cheating, because it secures further funding of the project. "Lack of funding" is apparently a big problem nowadays, but they steer around talking about how it happened. - They fucked up with putting a lot of funding into "EFT Arena" (a PVP-spinoff game, which was literally supposed to be part of the maingame map, now its a seperate, purchasable game. A blatant copy of their first developed game of course). It flopped HARD. - They already have microtransactions, to "further secure funding". which also wasnt the original plan. - They passive agressively support a real russian pmc group with mentionings in the game and graffitis. - They ban lesser known community creators if they dont like what they say. - As you say, the game always has been kind of pay to win, but we let it slide because it was supposed to be additional funding to support the project. They always sold the EoD-Edition as "you will get everything". Everything was earnable through playing. But this whole 250$-Edition "sorry u feel this way :(" was proper spit in the face. Tarkov now is just a burned out project from a man that clearly has other priorities nowadays, like spending his money in dubai.

The corporate greed and back tracking is insane. I paid for EOD from the start as an investment of sorts but it’s clear they don’t care about cheaters and are just cashcowing the project now. Absolutely disappointed in Nikita and Battlestate.

5:45 my friend BSG owned by three people Nikita Buyanov, figurehead british sitizen to take advantage of british law, and figurehead russian dude to take advantage of russian tax laws, basically this company 100% owned by one person Nikita Buyanov, there are no investors to take care of, Nikita Buyanov just randomly decided he wants new yacht thats it

How can you have DLC or "additional features" for a game that's not even fully released yet? If it's still in "BETA" then wouldn't that mean that all additional content before the release be part of the whole game? Shouldn't it be for free period then?? Just food for thought.

Pause... 🤣 25:54 , I'm not surprised his reaction at all, Nikita has an obsession in making Tarkov more and more not enjoyable.

I think the EA guy that went to unity got into Nikita (BSG) CEO's ear. Edit: dont forget, unity also made that stupid pricing/royalty plan that all the game devs "noped" the fuck out of.

One thing you forgot to mention was how they used fuck knows how much of the EFT money to create Arena, the biggest pile of shit game that nobody plays, cared about, or asked for. Another banger is how it takes 10+ minutes to connect to PvE matches, and cheaters are somehow joining PvE servers and killing people and taking all of their shit. Been a problem since day 1 of the PvE release and counting. I purchased EoD in Janurary of this year and immediately charged it back once I saw them announce the unheard edition. Get fucked.

It's really easy to do the calculations on this, even if you don't look at their profit margines. Red dead redemption 2 was the most expensive game ever made at the time. It cost $250,000,000 to make. It sold 64 million copies. At the time, games were still $60. That is $3,840,000,000. And that's only if everyone bought the basic version. I guarantee you a lot of people didn't. I would not be surprised if that game cracked $4 billion. And rockstar shuttered the online because "they weren't making enough money". The greed on display in the gaming industry is insane. There are drug lords that wish they had those prifit margins.

I feel like your first comment is wrong. The game didnt get really popular until 2019 ish and if u played before then or asked people who have played before then the cheaters were not even half as much as a problem it is now. There was always sweats in the game if u played enough Labs and Reserve (back when reserve had good loot) who would jump from roof to roof like they are playing leapfrog or jump out of windows and land on 1 inch fences only to jump through another window and shoot a guy in the back inside the other room. Cheats just came to this game once it became popular like with every game out there... but unlike other games out there BSG cant implement modern anti-cheat methods due to performance issues it causes so all the cheaters that came with the hype ended up staying for months before getting their first ban, and at that point they were addicted to cheating on tarkov so they just stayed here ever since.

Didn't even get into the even more blatant P2W aspects of the new edition, it's rough. And yes, this also happens to be the developer who DMCA'd creators in the past for posting critical videos about the game.

Sooo can we all just sue? Cash grabbed. This is crazy..

Yea but imagine a AAA company making their game 150 to fund their game

BSG also did this with tarkov arena. BSG originally said that it wasn’t dlc but a new game and that EOD players wouldn’t get it for free. We had to fight them on Twitter and eventually they came around and gave it to us even though it shouldn’t have been a fight to begin with

This feels like Star Citizen's legacy

I don't really see an issue here. These people were idiots and handed money over for nothing in return, then when they got nothing in return they got butthurt. Just don't pre-order shit. Its really simple.

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Ultimate Challenge: SPTarkov perma death runs!

I dont really get why people play in a non competitive game like tarkov, but I dont get people who spend 250 $ to stand still in raid in a corner for 25 minutes (not joking 70%+ of the playerbase play like this)

@Richard lewis the devs purposely built up the cheater base to then be able to entice the sale of PVE tarkov. Create the problem, sell them the remedies at 20x the cost. Basic russians logic

Has nothing to do with sweats, there are stats that beat sweats, and it used to be fun to play sweaty and fast before all the changes in the last 2-3 years. Cheaters are AJ issue but the biggest issue is the devs and tarkov owner at this point. They don’t listen to the community at all whatsoever. Don’t inform very well or communicate. And keep moving away from what made it the most fun game ever.

Tarkov devs could have fixed cheating by ip banning them but don’t because cheaters buy new accounts after being banned. It’s all about the money.

Yeah man. People need to stop trying so damn hard to beat one another It ruins everything Just play, just hang out, Just live life with the flow. People hate losing so much literally who gives a flying flip if you lose. That's life. You win one you lose one. BUT URRRR URRR if some kid loses, He loses his shit. now his pathetic ego where he actually thought he was hot shit is having a wake up call That's where you get a cheater. He'll live in denial thinkin he's the best forever cause he's a cheater. But deep down, they know they're a POS, They now they're shite One day.. They'll Blow it out in their 50's. Can't cheat life succa.

i barely ran into cheaters on east coast US servers. idk what servers you people are playing on but me and the boys always ran lvl 5 plus armor and the best ammo we can get our hands on and near meta weapon builds and we would run into 5 or 6 hackers we can identify each wipe.

That Lock up being behind a 250 dollar eddition is actually for a real reason... The servers are FUCKED You'll have to wait 20 min 30 mins just to get a server. It was a early access gift for those who actuily want to further support BSG. But y'all got all twisted. Now look. Servers are going to fucking hell, and everyone who's smart has moved to SINGLE PLAYER TARKOV MOD This isn't a fucking scam dude. Y'all just so bent out of shape you can't see the light....

Halo infinite, 60$ single player, free multiplayer.

$60 isnt enough? Meanwhile gray zone with 150 hours of PVE content for $35, on unreal 5 at 8k quality...lmao

I am not playing anything from BSG they had chance to take their decision back they didnt so i am done with them

The Single Player is a joke, they didn't even add pmc bots, its like you get the copy paste offline mode with progression. Super lazy, at this point you just should get spt

Cheaters absolutely make them money. Nikita literally stated this on record even before the game was launched. He has said that hackers are profitable. The game had 900k new accounts in 2023 alone. There is no way most of those are legit players. Nikita has also said that you can "smash your face on a keyboard and make the game its easy" and just keep it in beta for 5 years. That is exactly what he has done. It would be stupid to not endorse cheaters when you need to pay to play the game. Its simply naive to say cheaters dont make them money when PEOPLE BUY MTX TO SUPPORT ANTICHEAT DEVELOPMENT which is something NIKITA stated will happen when he said cheaters are profitable because it makes players pay for better anticheat. There is no better anticheat, the situation is just as bad as ever, if you would play the game more you would understand especially on labs. Its hard to explain without many hours into the game but you can easily tell who is cheating after 3000 hours. Depending on when in the wipe the people that move especially on labs are all cheaters or streamers. very rarely its a random chad player. Its just sad and its sad that Nikita is doing this on purpose.

I can not call EFT Escape from Tarkov anymore. I call it Escaped from tarkov now. Cheat and get banned buy another act. Repeat. No surprise they aren't too concerned with cheaters. I know Nikky boy says they take it seriously but they put more effort into bs no one is asking for.