Publisher Square Enix and developer People Can Fly recently kicked off a monthly series of Livestreams dedicated to its upcoming shooter 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Outriders. In addition to giving us our first real look at the game, this past week's update confirmed that a few nasty industry practices won't be making their way into the title. If you're not a fan of DRM or scummy microtransactions, Outriders might just be for you.
At the end of the video (at the 23:36 mark), People Can Fly's community manager Robbie Palmer addresses that Outriders will not be a "Games as a Service" type game. "This is one of our most commonly asked questions," Palmer states, "so to be 100% clear: No. Outriders is not 'Games as a service' and will be a complete experience out of the box." A few questions later, he then confirms microtransaction𝓰s and Denuvo DRM will not be a part of the experience either.
I want to personally congratulate Peo♚ple Can Fly on avoiding these ridiculous busines🌱s practices. It's massive that the team trusts its community enough to not put anti-consumer nonsense into its latest release. At the same time, though, I have to wonder why we are even congratulating what should be a standard business practice in the first place.
When games were launched before the advent of downloadable content, it was 100% expected that nothing shady would be going on. The main form of DRM for PC games was a CD key and any additional content was either sold as an expansion pack (with a substantial amount of new stuff) or provided for free in updates. It wasn't until companies like EA and Activision got a whiff of DLC that this issღue ran out of control.
After a generation of being taken advantage of, gamers had enough of these scummy business practices. As backlash towards microtransactions and DRM implementations became louder and louder, publishers began announcing when their titles didn't have them included. It famously came to a head in 2017 when Star Wars: Battlefront II launched with such an egregious example of microtransactions that the government became involved🍨 in regulating things💧.
For us to now be cheering for the exclusion of this shows how well the industry has trained us to accept the bare minimum. This isn't meant as any kind of shade at Peo🌳ple Can Fly, but more major publishers that feel like they're being the good guys. As paying customers, we dese📖rve better than being treated like easy targets.
I don't expect all content to be free and even like the idea of DLC, but what Outriders is doing with Denuvo and microtransactions shouldn't even be a news story. That should just be what you expeꦦct when a new game comes out.
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