The Escape From Tarkov developers' efforts to escape from a DLC paywall quagmire of their own quagmiring continue with …

This has to be the funniest PR disaster in video game history. “Guy did not forsee players getting mad for locking a gamemode behind a $250 edition, doubles down on it and tells people to chill out”

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CyberPunk 2077 did a similar thing. Seems to be a new pattern. Promise free DLC to drum up support. Charge for the DLC. Wait for things to cool down. Do it again.

CP2077 never promised the DLC would be free. And they also added tons of content prior to the DLC that was free. 🤨

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What are you talking about?

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Bullshit, apparently.

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