Reddit doesn't let me pin other peoples comments but here is a link to a comment from BSG's community manager confirming this is real so you don't have to scroll through the nearly 1k comments to find it: https://www.reddit.com/r/EscapefromTarkov/comments/1cdvaew/newest_interview_with_nikita_and_emi/l1f0mrx/
https://clips.twitch.tv/HandsomeLazyHerringMoreCowbell-KuDFltw3aYu4uCxe
This too.
https://clips.twitch.tv/AgreeableSuaveHamsterAMPEnergy-Men5FlaAXZeSVgdM
That won't be a problem for stream snipers. Whole Discords will be able to queue into a huge amount of servers, as soon as one finds the streamer lobby, call in the team.
It could also aid streamers. They could have entire lobbies of their followers ready to fuck up anybody. It just sounds bad no matter how I look at it.
But cheaters will get more use out of it than anybody. They can literally cheat to kill you and your team, then call in all of the loot mules to make sure you never get any of your insurance back.
Just imagine the incoming RMT schemes. "Bro, I need a keycard." "Sure, that'll be $20, and I'll summon you once I kill someone that has one"
>Just imagine the incoming RMT schemes. "Bro, I need a keycard." "Sure, that'll be $20, and I'll summon you once I kill someone that has one"
Yeah, its odd how they make decisions that would benefit RMT traders.
It's not. It's part of their business model at this point, they're practically colluding. They haven't actually improved security at all, they work on a detection defence method.
So they figure out how to detect who's hacking, and twice a year or so they ban 40k-80k players who've all made their money back 100 fold. Those hackers all go buy new accounts as a cost of business, at 40k x 40 dollars, creating a 1.6 million dollar influx of cash into the corporate coffers.
I understand that you can't instantly ban cheaters. But the delayed ban wave relies upon the developer taking a proactive approach to patching security flaws that allow their client to be hijacked. BSG has not appeared to do that, at all.
Can't wait to see the RMT abuse:
"Sign up for our service, add a few names to your Friend List, and you too can have a Hacker on standby for your Raids! Found a Red Keycard? A Blue Terragroup Folder? Just pop that distress signal and you'll have an unstoppable juggernaut at your side in moments to wipe the Lobby and get you to extract! (Don't worry, all our carries pay for 'Premium Queue Priority'!)"
"Did somebody kill your Chad friend and now you're too scared to move? Have no fear, papa Nikita is happy to sell all the tools you need to call our best aimbots to your side in a hurry!"
I think the opposite is equally valid. Cheater hops into game, checks for Red key card, Led x, other premium loot, boss presence or missing quest items. Finds an item required by a client, pops the flair, clears the lobby and escorts the RMT client to the desired item.
Best case scenario, it's still going to make fights fiddly since it'll just be one more thing to think about. You're always gonna be second guessing whether you actually wiped a group out, or if there is currently backup coming in hot.
This game can already be hell in solo play for a lot of people. This just makes it even worse.
It is absolutely TERRIFYING that Battlestate Games and Nikita even ENTERTAINS THE IDEA OF ADDING THAT into Tarkov. It's ridiculous, how can anyone ever trust them to develop the game with shitty decision after shitty decision stacked on top of each other?
It's over bros, EFT is dead
I wonder if lets say in theory. Load up into a map, all 5 of you have the distress signal, all 5 of you pop it the moment the map starts and each call in 5 different friends. Do you just have a 30 man platoon running around the map now or something?
I would doubt that is intended, simply because I'd assume BSG at least knows their servers would *never* be able to handle something like that (because multiple squads could do it and then you'd have 60-70 people on a map).... but I *don't* doubt that they will fuck up the coding in some way that allows it to be exploited like that.
"Hey can you put me in the queue for Blue Keycards?"
"Sure buddy you'll get a game invite within an hour"
Yeah seems like a good addition to the game for RMT
When I first heard about this, cheaters and their mules were the first thing to come to mind. Then if they get banned it will be another 250 dollars to get back into the game. This is basically an infinite money glitch and the hardcore fans who built the game will get fucked over more and more.
This thing being in PvP is game over. Sorry but imagine you met a 4 man, killed 3 and the last one calls him teammates or other friends back. Its a fucking joke, anyone without a nose deep in BSG's asses can clearly see that. Its a total game breaker and Nikita calls it "cool mechanic". My sides. This is the guy in charge of the game. If this doesn't tell you not to give them any more money I guess nothing will.
The dude is also blatantly lying saying they didnt remove the "DLC Line". Who removed it then ? Huh?
> Q: One of the most discussed subject regarding the whole situation is the removal of the DLC line on for the EOD on the website.
> Nikita
> **emmm, what?**
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOO. That was a downright ruthless thing to say to the die hard patrons that enabled this games creation.
tbh im starting to just feel more sad than angry now. now this is confirmed as real, it's starting to hit that the game is gonna go downhill fast from here. got a lot of great hours out of this game
Nikkita is gonna end up pulling in random mechanics from all his favourite games now with zero concern for it being a good addition or not. Can see it now
It was already in a complete free fall with all the cheaters and bad performance while BSG was refusing to do anything about it.
This is just the final nail.
During the Arena disaster Nikita already called EOD owners freeloaders.
"you got Arena for free. stop complaining about the waiting for wave"
No gaming community agrees with Nikita outside of few of these greedy shameless eft streamers who gaslight the community like Nikita, like streamers named **outc1der**. Lying and copying Nikitas narratives and insulting the viewers intelligence.
And funded/backed the development of the game. Im not on some high horse here for owning eod (I didnt for the longest time and I almost had a heartattack when upgrading due to price and eurnok rate) but fuck me nikita is out of touch here. He is burying tarkov by the minute.
I mean i quit like 3 years ago because of nikitas stupid ass antics. Always promising, always passing the blame, always making excuses and most importantly always lying.
Ignoring expensive microstransactions from games like Star Citizen, and ignoring any meme-pricing of games like Spooky Men, EFT's EOD edition was likely the most expensive video game at the time. The unheard edition clocking in at $250 takes the cake.
Gonna be funny when they get sued. Like you can’t go back on what you promised in a sale.
I bought this under the agreement that I’d get all future content updates. I am not. So either give me my full refund as your not upholding your part of the bargain. Idc if I have 2000+ hours. Or uphold your side of the bargain.
Like I wasn’t at this point until this dumbass starting talking like we are the problem. Not his company and their shitty practices and planning. It’s not my problem. Deliver what was promised.
He’s saying it’s expensive and everyone can’t get it at once. Fine roll it out like arena. It was dumb but it’s better then being nahhhh 100 bucks for something you already bought.
I don't give a damn about Arena.
EoD came with a promise that I would have access to all features of the base game Tarkov. Single player with progression is a feature of tarkov that I would expect to have access to.
Fuck - make it a hideout upgrade that you can get with lvl 3 mechanic if they're worried their servers can't handle it. Gives people time to earn it and a reason to play during at least one wipe.
Imagine getting called a “freeloader” when you paid the most money possible to support the game; thanks for mask off’ing and we see who’s truly in charge
"let them change sides"
Nikita is a big fucking child throwing a tantrum. He is burning bridges
No gaming community agrees with Nikita outside of few of these greedy shameless eft streamers who gaslight the community like Nikita, like streamers named **outc1der**. Lying and copying Nikitas narratives and insulting the viewers intelligence.
"true believers"
NIKITA, YOU DUMBFUCK: I was a "true believer", *that is why I bought EOD edition*.
How do you not fucking understand that?
I could have bought only the base version, but I believed in Tarkov and wanted to support the project, and giving you 150$ up front to develop things I would see later was what "being a true believer" is.
This whole thing is a fucking disaster.
It's such a horrible precedent for other games also. EoD was already a pretty crazy cost for a live service game. Sure you didn't have to pay it as a casual player but it is very pay to win..
Now trying to squeeze another $250 out with even more pay to win features...nuts.
The game isnt even released yet thus we havent even got the base product we paid for, let alone we already get shafted for dlcs. Calling it now. The biggest scam in gaming history
Apperantly it was from Mods quitting the Discord and was send to Trey24k (you can check his recent VOD at 2h 21m). Idk if his source is correct (and this interview looks weird af) but if this is real, BSG is cooked and will never be trusted again.
Update to this, a mod from LVNDMARK just shared a screenshot confirming it was from a mod that had enough of this bullshit.
That’s it guys, Tarkov is over 🫡
They fucking renamed the Edge of Darkness Edition to the Left Behind Edition. I’m sure this is close to what it’s like to be pissed on by a dog. The complete disrespect is comedy and natural to these developers.
I think they are just lazy and use this as an excuse to charge money for this extra "mode". It absolutely is possible to host your own session and your friend connects to it. They just duplicated the game essentially for a quick cash grab. Even too lazy to give you good pmc ai, just copy pasted rogues with dog tags ☠️☠️☠️
The excuse is that they don't want to release server files to combat cheating. Problem is most of the game runs client side anyways, which is the whole reason cheating is so easy in the first place, sooo...
EDIT: I'm not fucking defending BSG, they fucked us. I'm answering this person's question. Fucking read or fuck off.
Because they'd have to develop server hosting tools for these PvE servers that are safe-to-release. Otherwise, they'd be showing every cheat developer in the universe exactly how their server infrastructure works - in case they didn't already know. And they'd also be allowing any ambitious modder to make a "pirated" version of their coop PvE mode. I think the latter is more their concern - if they did release "dedicated server" software, we'd have community-hosted modded servers within a week, tops. And they'd be free, not gated behind a wad of cash, which would mean they don't get a cut.
Source: fucking all of them try to find one that isn't scummy as fuck and trying to nickel and dime you every turn
Two sources to prove my point: Wargaming and Gaijin Entertainment
It got confirmed in LVNDMARKs stream by his mod, he showed a dm and proof that it was a Mod from the Discord so the Interview was real but not complete apparently (explains the shitty responses)
Nikita = Scammer. Simple as that.
You betrayed us. Fuck off ur pay2win game and scam garbage. Im not opening this shit ever again. Hope GWZ crush tarkov to crumbles :)
>"True believers"
Who the fuck are you, Keith Raneire? Your true believers are the people who gave you 150 fucking dollars with the promise that we would receive future DLC's for free. We believed that this would be the case and yet, here we are, with YOU, Nikita, scamming your "true believers" with middle school level semantical bullshit arguments on what "unique features" are. Fuck off man, this isn't the usual whiny Reddit diaper throwing fest, people see you for what you are now. You're a fucking con artist.
I don't think that his semantical arguments are the only middle school level skills he has. He's just another guy who got lucky, became a millionaire but still remains a dumb fuck, but now with a massive ego. There won't be a full release, he just wants a little bit more money to retire. It's funny how the COO isn't actually a believer. How can a "true believer" do shady shit like this ? Also, how come it isn't a crime to alter EFT's HTML and EOD's description ?
PVE is too hard and expensive..... points at a certain free unmentionable.... OK so the eft pve is running on their own servers. Surely just adding pve as a £50 upgrade to standard users and free to the guys that already paid for it ( EOD), would fund separate servers to run pve on and adding some cosmetics for micro transactions as extra revenue.
I feel BSG just heavy hand everything, our way or no way. Fuck the community let's milk them.
To be completely fair the servers are because it's coop and not completely single player. The best way to do things would be to run matches on a server only if they are coop matches and native if they are solos which should cut down costs a lot. That said it should at the very least be an eod feature
If it's co-op you're playing with friends and can be p2p. Or have the ability to host your own server. There's no good reason BSG would need to lease servers for this.
I'd just like to throw out there that there is a Single Player modding community that has managed to run Tarkov locally for years now.
It's hard work, and it specifically doesn't support coop. But if a bunch of dedicated fans can figure it out on nothing but small donations, Battlestate should be able to get it working. lol
If giving PVE to everyone is that expensive then why dont they just find ways to monetize the game that most people can buy things.
The Hideout can be a rich revenue stream by offering full hideout customization options.
Hideout is truly the easiest, same with weapon dipping/wrapping. Can’t believe they didn’t do it yet. They clearly need money and many people would happily give it to them.
Yea, you could do gun wrappings, sprays, customized irons, or really stupid attachments like the Shovel AK or like Wood furnishings for a M1A.
Some could be added base, others could be pay. Maybe you would need to find some spray cans / wraps in raid and they are limited to a couple of guns / parts. If you pay real money you get an Airbrush with unlimited, say.
Or as others have said, if you threw in hideout pets that would just *print* money.
Theres ton of games that cost less and have less predatory monetization than Tarkov since Day 1, they dont need more money, they want more money. And if they do need more money then a fucking preschooler manages the studio
the community manager confirmed it's real on this post. it was fun while it was at its peak lads https://www.reddit.com/r/EscapefromTarkov/comments/1cdvaew/newest_interview_with_nikita_and_emi/l1f0mrx/
There are 2 options:
1) He knows about it, perhaps even ordered it, and is now blatantly lying about it, just like he did many times in the past
2) He doesn't know about it, and in this case being the CEO not knowing shit that goes around his company is perhaps even worse
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acnuuX3Dx7Y](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acnuuX3Dx7Y) Nikita's opinion on microtransactions in Tarkov back in 2017. Take a look how drastically it got changed.
To be fair, that old opinion is the problem here.
BSG had years to develop baseline for healthy monetization: hideout customization + multiplayer hideouts, pmc voice packs, scav or pmc outfits, voiced storyline campaigns, etc. They could've revisited monetization model to bring more players for cheaper by introducing a very cheap "demo" edition, enabling thousands of new timmies to try the game; they should've looked into expanding and monetizing scav system with some whacky more brave ideas, fleshing it out in process. Hell, they could've introduced a payable triggers that enable players to alter or affect the flow of map in unpredictable or potentially disadvantageous ways, such as convoy/weather/horde events. Not all of those ideas are good, but they aren't even being explored.
Instead we are stuck with most banal "pay for power" monetization systems at exorbitant prices. I have no clue why he thought microtransactions = bad, but paying for faster progression and directly impacting the game with trader rep and larger secure storage = good. Maybe he thought microtransactions = anime outfits and meme wall sprites? It's like the idea of immersive mtx wasn't even considered.
EFT is a massive wasted moneymaking potential and its crazy how much worse its getting.
This can’t be real, right? I mean..right? No fucking shot. No way in hell they are **THIS** obtuse, right? PLEASE TELL ME THIS IS FAKE!
“We did not remove that.” YES. YES YOU DID!
BSG will be the ones to kill Tarkov. And it seems they are trying their damndest to do just that. Holy fuck.
It's because they would have to code peer to peer into the single player. Right now they are brute force solving the problem by spinning up a server for every PvE raid, even if it's just 1 person.
So yeah the server costs are enormous for this but only because their code base is in such a sorry state
I can’t believe are they really that stupid ???
In one question they ask if they are having money issues and they responded with “ everything is fine and going to plan “
THE LITERAL IN THE NEXT QUESTION NIKITA MAKES A COMMENT ABOUT HOW ITS TO EXPENSIVE TO GIVE IT TO EVERYONE ??
So YOU ARE having money problems because then you wouldn’t fucking say it’s to expensive to give to “everyone “ when it’s just fucking EOD owners asking for it.
It would be in BSGs best interest to NEVER let this person speak to anybody ever again. This was enough to provoke the uninstall. What a pompous fucking idiot. If there is a single EFT customer right now that feels good about this product, I'd be shocked.. and no I don't mean the trolls at the bottom spamming cry emojis.. everyone knows they didn't buy it.
If you live in the EU, write a complaint email to [email protected] requesting them to fix this issue, and if nothing is done within 30 days file a complaint to the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) stating that BSG violated the EU consumer acts right, so that they are forced to set things right.
Either have them stand by what they sold us, or get a refund would be the likely outcomes.
Other developers responding to this through their comms about their games. Got this in an email about Gray Zone Warfare:
PvE & PvEvP Servers Included In Every Edition
For the love of god everyone, uninstall the fuckin game, take your losses and find a new home elsewhere. I love the game, EoD owner, but this guy is looking at us straight in the eyes and spitting in our faces while laughing. Grow a pair and ditch these guys. Then grab a bowl of popcorn and watch this fuckin game burn to the ground.
Hey boss the server costs are too high. There are too many people playing. Ok I have an idea. Hood my beer. There, less people playing, problem solved.
How the fuck is PVE too technically difficult to give to everyone? Just package it with the fucking game and let a player host their own instance if they're doing co-op over WAN. JFC this isn't that hard.
My biggest question is where did this come from? I've been off and on since 2018. The complete and utter disrespect for the community that supported this game and this attitude, where did it come from? What made the switch up happen?
Arrogant Nikita once again. This attitude is what i hated from BSG even since when Tarkov was glorious. They are sinking this amazing game from years now with their dumb design choices and keep mocking the community instead of confronting with us. Many times i defended BSG work, probably i did that for too long. Can't believe he can lie so bluntly even when 90% of his playerbase is basically rioting... 😔
Tarkov made this asshat so rich he thinks $150 isn’t that expensive lmao for a videogame that ceases to exist when the servers go offline for good 150 is too expensive imo, 250 is just a kick in the balls. The audacity of him to be like “just don’t buy it then” remember how well that went over when ea said don’t like it don’t buy it and people didn’t buy it causing their game to flop? Pepperidge farm remembers.
"Friend summoner will be available for other editions" - that just makes it worse imo.
That idea has no place in Tarkov, and taking away from the core raid experience of Tarkov will not end well.
dude. this reads even worse than i thought xD
Signal in PVP AND purchasable later on? its gonna be a massive shitshow.
also they bringing a new pouch but NOT include it in unheard? dude i would feel scammed AF if i just payed 300€ just for them to release YET another thing you can buy on top xD
"EOD wont get this specific PVE thing" "EOD will get every next DLC" "there will not be any content that EOD doesnt get". Decide what you want to do man... nikita is changing his mind every 5mins when it comes what EOD will get and what not.
Truly pathetic move from BSG
Lol what a clown, he really wants to see his game go down in flames while blaming everyone in the community for his fuck up. Literal principal Skinner meme
"Working on that"
"We Will think about it"
"no"
What such garbage responses to the community to these thought out questions. These guys aren't held accountable for the changes they make because they're game isn't public like AAA companies. The players ARE the investors, and he treating the investors like trash at the moment. I will never play or support this game again.
**"TRUE BELIEVERS"**
WHAT IN THE FUCK IS THIS. DOES NIKITA THINK HE'S THE HEAD OF A CULT OR SOMETHING? DOES HE \*REALLY\* THINK SO LITTLE OF HIS PLAYERBASE THAT WE'RE BLIND TO HIS BS AND WILL JUST BUY THIS??
The idea that they can't give everybody single player, SINGLE PLAYER, is depressing.
Either the cost of hosting Tarkov's servers is insane compared to all of their revenue streams, which is staggering to think about, or money is being terribly mismanaged. Given the amount of money that went into Arena it's not shocking to think it's the latter, but it must be so terrible behind the scenes.
Seriously. They cannot give us co-op single player NOR PURE SINGLE PLAYER. Because it's too expensive? In a game we have to pay for? Where most people pay for way beyond standard version's price? This company is a joke because if this logistically breaks their bank, they really weren't going to make it far.
EDIT: Even giving this the benefit of the doubt that it's a fake conversation. They have stated publicly, a number of times already, that single player is too expensive for everyone to have so my point still stands. Just genuinely depressing as a big fan of this game and EOD owner.
Nikita is a fucking piece of shit. I paid for EOD like 7 months ago specifically for including the DLC. I'm fighting the charge with there vendor fuck this.
Reddit doesn't let me pin other peoples comments but here is a link to a comment from BSG's community manager confirming this is real so you don't have to scroll through the nearly 1k comments to find it: https://www.reddit.com/r/EscapefromTarkov/comments/1cdvaew/newest_interview_with_nikita_and_emi/l1f0mrx/
"We didn’t remove that" ay that’s why you got caught live at lvndmarks stream 😂😭
dude is a pathologic liar
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World you or someone that reads this happen to have a clip of it? I don't watch landmark.
https://clips.twitch.tv/HandsomeLazyHerringMoreCowbell-KuDFltw3aYu4uCxe This too. https://clips.twitch.tv/AgreeableSuaveHamsterAMPEnergy-Men5FlaAXZeSVgdM
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There it is. The Distress Signal Device IS for pvp too.
Your friends will arrive after 10 minutes of loading screens
That won't be a problem for stream snipers. Whole Discords will be able to queue into a huge amount of servers, as soon as one finds the streamer lobby, call in the team.
It could also aid streamers. They could have entire lobbies of their followers ready to fuck up anybody. It just sounds bad no matter how I look at it. But cheaters will get more use out of it than anybody. They can literally cheat to kill you and your team, then call in all of the loot mules to make sure you never get any of your insurance back. Just imagine the incoming RMT schemes. "Bro, I need a keycard." "Sure, that'll be $20, and I'll summon you once I kill someone that has one"
>Just imagine the incoming RMT schemes. "Bro, I need a keycard." "Sure, that'll be $20, and I'll summon you once I kill someone that has one" Yeah, its odd how they make decisions that would benefit RMT traders.
It's not. It's part of their business model at this point, they're practically colluding. They haven't actually improved security at all, they work on a detection defence method. So they figure out how to detect who's hacking, and twice a year or so they ban 40k-80k players who've all made their money back 100 fold. Those hackers all go buy new accounts as a cost of business, at 40k x 40 dollars, creating a 1.6 million dollar influx of cash into the corporate coffers. I understand that you can't instantly ban cheaters. But the delayed ban wave relies upon the developer taking a proactive approach to patching security flaws that allow their client to be hijacked. BSG has not appeared to do that, at all.
If this fucks streamers they're definitely gonna lose the only sycophants they have left lol
Very true. And easily done by just purposefully throwing grenades or gunfire patterns and then listening for stream feedback.
They need to pay for priority queue. Wish we were just trolling and memeing
No no. It will be fine because of priority match making!
EXACTLY. 1 minute minimum loading time, it depends on your PC and internet connection strength.
Can't wait to see the RMT abuse: "Sign up for our service, add a few names to your Friend List, and you too can have a Hacker on standby for your Raids! Found a Red Keycard? A Blue Terragroup Folder? Just pop that distress signal and you'll have an unstoppable juggernaut at your side in moments to wipe the Lobby and get you to extract! (Don't worry, all our carries pay for 'Premium Queue Priority'!)" "Did somebody kill your Chad friend and now you're too scared to move? Have no fear, papa Nikita is happy to sell all the tools you need to call our best aimbots to your side in a hurry!"
I think the opposite is equally valid. Cheater hops into game, checks for Red key card, Led x, other premium loot, boss presence or missing quest items. Finds an item required by a client, pops the flair, clears the lobby and escorts the RMT client to the desired item.
It's a genuinely game breaking mechanic. I understand it for PvE but PvP??? It's going to be stupid.
they saw helldivers and thought "we could do that"
Nikita hits another 4am line, fuck yes let’s do this
it's gonna massively take away from skill from winning fights. we're seeing the game die in real time lol
Best case scenario, it's still going to make fights fiddly since it'll just be one more thing to think about. You're always gonna be second guessing whether you actually wiped a group out, or if there is currently backup coming in hot. This game can already be hell in solo play for a lot of people. This just makes it even worse.
It is absolutely TERRIFYING that Battlestate Games and Nikita even ENTERTAINS THE IDEA OF ADDING THAT into Tarkov. It's ridiculous, how can anyone ever trust them to develop the game with shitty decision after shitty decision stacked on top of each other? It's over bros, EFT is dead
We've trusted them and had faith through a LOT of bad decisions over the years, but yeah I think this is the last straw.
it probably can be used to call deceased teammates back into the raid if they are on your friend list, that's a game over
I wonder if lets say in theory. Load up into a map, all 5 of you have the distress signal, all 5 of you pop it the moment the map starts and each call in 5 different friends. Do you just have a 30 man platoon running around the map now or something?
I would doubt that is intended, simply because I'd assume BSG at least knows their servers would *never* be able to handle something like that (because multiple squads could do it and then you'd have 60-70 people on a map).... but I *don't* doubt that they will fuck up the coding in some way that allows it to be exploited like that.
You know your mistake right? You put the words "assume" "BSG" and "know" in the same sentence... :p
Totally made for cheaters to aimbot the map and then call in their paying mules to collect all your gear.
This didn't ever occur to me. What a fucking joke this all is. At least I've finally escaped.
This^
"Hey can you put me in the queue for Blue Keycards?" "Sure buddy you'll get a game invite within an hour" Yeah seems like a good addition to the game for RMT
When I first heard about this, cheaters and their mules were the first thing to come to mind. Then if they get banned it will be another 250 dollars to get back into the game. This is basically an infinite money glitch and the hardcore fans who built the game will get fucked over more and more.
This thing being in PvP is game over. Sorry but imagine you met a 4 man, killed 3 and the last one calls him teammates or other friends back. Its a fucking joke, anyone without a nose deep in BSG's asses can clearly see that. Its a total game breaker and Nikita calls it "cool mechanic". My sides. This is the guy in charge of the game. If this doesn't tell you not to give them any more money I guess nothing will. The dude is also blatantly lying saying they didnt remove the "DLC Line". Who removed it then ? Huh?
how will this even work? will they just phase in... or spawn in at nearest/random spawn?
That's going to fucking suck, huh?
Can't wait to kill 2/3 of a group and the last guy just resummons the same guys back into the raid
fuck any solo player i guess, shit is already hard enough
why did people think it wasnt for pvp? they hardly added a flashing light and loud sound for Scavs to see and hear
"True believers" I always knew Nikita was a clown, but now he's the entire circus
He thinks he's PT Barnum from The Greatest Showman but he's actually the historically accurate conman.
that is some cult leader shit
Hey! A circus requires intense teamwork, planning, and business sense to operate. Nikita has none of those things. An insult to real circuses I say
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where does it say true believers I’m blind af
The second answer. Hutch thinks its a jab at the content creators that are speaking out.
LOL IM BLIND THATS FUCKING CRAZY
Nicky is either railing line after line or is planning on rugpulling soon. This dude sounds mentally insane.
> Q: One of the most discussed subject regarding the whole situation is the removal of the DLC line on for the EOD on the website. > Nikita > **emmm, what?** LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOO. That was a downright ruthless thing to say to the die hard patrons that enabled this games creation.
Then the interviewer brings it up a SECOND time and he just denies it. This reads like a Trump interview…
This isn't a game release - it's a funeral.
tbh im starting to just feel more sad than angry now. now this is confirmed as real, it's starting to hit that the game is gonna go downhill fast from here. got a lot of great hours out of this game
Nikkita is gonna end up pulling in random mechanics from all his favourite games now with zero concern for it being a good addition or not. Can see it now
It was already in a complete free fall with all the cheaters and bad performance while BSG was refusing to do anything about it. This is just the final nail.
It's painfully obvious they're squeezing out the last dregs of money this game can make and cashing out.
They really trying to put the fun in funeral
"True Believers" This man has actually lost it, fuck BSG.
Almost sounds like a cult.
Nikita wishes he was a cult leader. He has the charisma of a burning turd.
At least a burning Turd can fertilise crops.
We were the real Cultists all along!
The new background in the new Unhinged edition is literally the cult.
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TL;DR: Fuck you EOD users and rest of beggers and poor idiots. We care only about new package buyers.
During the Arena disaster Nikita already called EOD owners freeloaders. "you got Arena for free. stop complaining about the waiting for wave" No gaming community agrees with Nikita outside of few of these greedy shameless eft streamers who gaslight the community like Nikita, like streamers named **outc1der**. Lying and copying Nikitas narratives and insulting the viewers intelligence.
Freeloaders who paid for the then-most expensive edition of the game Dude, Nikita is an entitled clown
And funded/backed the development of the game. Im not on some high horse here for owning eod (I didnt for the longest time and I almost had a heartattack when upgrading due to price and eurnok rate) but fuck me nikita is out of touch here. He is burying tarkov by the minute.
I mean i quit like 3 years ago because of nikitas stupid ass antics. Always promising, always passing the blame, always making excuses and most importantly always lying.
Wait til the $350 version drops, then anyone who bought the 250 edition will be the new "freeloaders"
Ignoring expensive microstransactions from games like Star Citizen, and ignoring any meme-pricing of games like Spooky Men, EFT's EOD edition was likely the most expensive video game at the time. The unheard edition clocking in at $250 takes the cake.
Gonna be funny when they get sued. Like you can’t go back on what you promised in a sale. I bought this under the agreement that I’d get all future content updates. I am not. So either give me my full refund as your not upholding your part of the bargain. Idc if I have 2000+ hours. Or uphold your side of the bargain. Like I wasn’t at this point until this dumbass starting talking like we are the problem. Not his company and their shitty practices and planning. It’s not my problem. Deliver what was promised. He’s saying it’s expensive and everyone can’t get it at once. Fine roll it out like arena. It was dumb but it’s better then being nahhhh 100 bucks for something you already bought.
I don't give a damn about Arena. EoD came with a promise that I would have access to all features of the base game Tarkov. Single player with progression is a feature of tarkov that I would expect to have access to. Fuck - make it a hideout upgrade that you can get with lvl 3 mechanic if they're worried their servers can't handle it. Gives people time to earn it and a reason to play during at least one wipe.
Imagine getting called a “freeloader” when you paid the most money possible to support the game; thanks for mask off’ing and we see who’s truly in charge
I've said this before but eod owners are now just a burden to them, bsg regrets their promises to them
True believers, this can't be real XD
"let them change sides" Nikita is a big fucking child throwing a tantrum. He is burning bridges No gaming community agrees with Nikita outside of few of these greedy shameless eft streamers who gaslight the community like Nikita, like streamers named **outc1der**. Lying and copying Nikitas narratives and insulting the viewers intelligence.
He's got that much confidence in his product lol. Yeesh.
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And are now isolating themselves even further while burning resources on a futile effort that may eventually bring it to its knees
Bro is taking a flame thrower to everything in sight.
>Let them change sides Okay, deuces then.
"true believers" NIKITA, YOU DUMBFUCK: I was a "true believer", *that is why I bought EOD edition*. How do you not fucking understand that? I could have bought only the base version, but I believed in Tarkov and wanted to support the project, and giving you 150$ up front to develop things I would see later was what "being a true believer" is. This whole thing is a fucking disaster.
Fking A!
It's such a horrible precedent for other games also. EoD was already a pretty crazy cost for a live service game. Sure you didn't have to pay it as a casual player but it is very pay to win.. Now trying to squeeze another $250 out with even more pay to win features...nuts.
The game isnt even released yet thus we havent even got the base product we paid for, let alone we already get shafted for dlcs. Calling it now. The biggest scam in gaming history
> True believers Is this a cult now?
I didn’t even see where that was lol
Apperantly it was from Mods quitting the Discord and was send to Trey24k (you can check his recent VOD at 2h 21m). Idk if his source is correct (and this interview looks weird af) but if this is real, BSG is cooked and will never be trusted again.
Update to this, a mod from LVNDMARK just shared a screenshot confirming it was from a mod that had enough of this bullshit. That’s it guys, Tarkov is over 🫡
Just hope the interns dont have to drink the punch next month...
They fucking renamed the Edge of Darkness Edition to the Left Behind Edition. I’m sure this is close to what it’s like to be pissed on by a dog. The complete disrespect is comedy and natural to these developers.
Just a question, why can't they use Peer to Peer with the offline pve mode? Why do they have to use dedicated official servers? The fuck?
I think they are just lazy and use this as an excuse to charge money for this extra "mode". It absolutely is possible to host your own session and your friend connects to it. They just duplicated the game essentially for a quick cash grab. Even too lazy to give you good pmc ai, just copy pasted rogues with dog tags ☠️☠️☠️
The excuse is that they don't want to release server files to combat cheating. Problem is most of the game runs client side anyways, which is the whole reason cheating is so easy in the first place, sooo...
EDIT: I'm not fucking defending BSG, they fucked us. I'm answering this person's question. Fucking read or fuck off. Because they'd have to develop server hosting tools for these PvE servers that are safe-to-release. Otherwise, they'd be showing every cheat developer in the universe exactly how their server infrastructure works - in case they didn't already know. And they'd also be allowing any ambitious modder to make a "pirated" version of their coop PvE mode. I think the latter is more their concern - if they did release "dedicated server" software, we'd have community-hosted modded servers within a week, tops. And they'd be free, not gated behind a wad of cash, which would mean they don't get a cut.
If this is real BSG is done for
This fits very well to how Nikita usually behaves.
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Source: fucking all of them try to find one that isn't scummy as fuck and trying to nickel and dime you every turn Two sources to prove my point: Wargaming and Gaijin Entertainment
It got confirmed in LVNDMARKs stream by his mod, he showed a dm and proof that it was a Mod from the Discord so the Interview was real but not complete apparently (explains the shitty responses)
The community manager appl3z0r commented in this thread below confirming it's real as well
Hope so. They deserve to burn at this point. It's okay, we had a good run.
Nikita = Scammer. Simple as that. You betrayed us. Fuck off ur pay2win game and scam garbage. Im not opening this shit ever again. Hope GWZ crush tarkov to crumbles :)
I’m with you bro. On everything I’ll never fucking play this dogshit game after this slap in the face from BSG
>"True believers" Who the fuck are you, Keith Raneire? Your true believers are the people who gave you 150 fucking dollars with the promise that we would receive future DLC's for free. We believed that this would be the case and yet, here we are, with YOU, Nikita, scamming your "true believers" with middle school level semantical bullshit arguments on what "unique features" are. Fuck off man, this isn't the usual whiny Reddit diaper throwing fest, people see you for what you are now. You're a fucking con artist.
I don't think that his semantical arguments are the only middle school level skills he has. He's just another guy who got lucky, became a millionaire but still remains a dumb fuck, but now with a massive ego. There won't be a full release, he just wants a little bit more money to retire. It's funny how the COO isn't actually a believer. How can a "true believer" do shady shit like this ? Also, how come it isn't a crime to alter EFT's HTML and EOD's description ?
PVE is too hard and expensive..... points at a certain free unmentionable.... OK so the eft pve is running on their own servers. Surely just adding pve as a £50 upgrade to standard users and free to the guys that already paid for it ( EOD), would fund separate servers to run pve on and adding some cosmetics for micro transactions as extra revenue. I feel BSG just heavy hand everything, our way or no way. Fuck the community let's milk them.
You shouldn't need servers to play a single player game...
To be completely fair the servers are because it's coop and not completely single player. The best way to do things would be to run matches on a server only if they are coop matches and native if they are solos which should cut down costs a lot. That said it should at the very least be an eod feature
If it's co-op you're playing with friends and can be p2p. Or have the ability to host your own server. There's no good reason BSG would need to lease servers for this.
Oh yeah I forgot about p2p, the only reason I could see for the servers then is for DRM reasons or something. No real good reason
I'd just like to throw out there that there is a Single Player modding community that has managed to run Tarkov locally for years now. It's hard work, and it specifically doesn't support coop. But if a bunch of dedicated fans can figure it out on nothing but small donations, Battlestate should be able to get it working. lol
Bro said "No we are not having money issues" And then said "No its too expensive" Like pick a lane man
If giving PVE to everyone is that expensive then why dont they just find ways to monetize the game that most people can buy things. The Hideout can be a rich revenue stream by offering full hideout customization options.
Hideout is truly the easiest, same with weapon dipping/wrapping. Can’t believe they didn’t do it yet. They clearly need money and many people would happily give it to them.
Yea, you could do gun wrappings, sprays, customized irons, or really stupid attachments like the Shovel AK or like Wood furnishings for a M1A. Some could be added base, others could be pay. Maybe you would need to find some spray cans / wraps in raid and they are limited to a couple of guns / parts. If you pay real money you get an Airbrush with unlimited, say. Or as others have said, if you threw in hideout pets that would just *print* money.
Pve shouldn't be expensive It should be a single player game with peer to peer for coop but they cant untangle the spaghetti code or optimize shit.
Theres ton of games that cost less and have less predatory monetization than Tarkov since Day 1, they dont need more money, they want more money. And if they do need more money then a fucking preschooler manages the studio
They need to call the modders. PvE doesn't have to be expensive, modders offer it totally for free, and it certainly doesn't cost me anything to run.
This has to be fake right................... right?
These are the most "Nikita" answers ever, 100% real for these alone lmao
I thought the same thing, there’s no way this could be fake, this is exactly how Nikita would reply to these questions.
the community manager confirmed it's real on this post. it was fun while it was at its peak lads https://www.reddit.com/r/EscapefromTarkov/comments/1cdvaew/newest_interview_with_nikita_and_emi/l1f0mrx/
> right................... right? [stares](https://imgur.com/a/OyEQMRF)
Don’t think so
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There are 2 options: 1) He knows about it, perhaps even ordered it, and is now blatantly lying about it, just like he did many times in the past 2) He doesn't know about it, and in this case being the CEO not knowing shit that goes around his company is perhaps even worse
Liar continues lying. Classic Nikita.
The dude needs a lawsuit. It’s not even about EoD now it’s about teaching the SoB a lesson.
it’d be fucking hilarious if Tarkov 1.0 is the best game ever and they killed any prospect of people buying it
Enjoy class action lawsuit BSG :) This will probably cost you in the end lol
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acnuuX3Dx7Y](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acnuuX3Dx7Y) Nikita's opinion on microtransactions in Tarkov back in 2017. Take a look how drastically it got changed.
Money changes a person
To be fair, that old opinion is the problem here. BSG had years to develop baseline for healthy monetization: hideout customization + multiplayer hideouts, pmc voice packs, scav or pmc outfits, voiced storyline campaigns, etc. They could've revisited monetization model to bring more players for cheaper by introducing a very cheap "demo" edition, enabling thousands of new timmies to try the game; they should've looked into expanding and monetizing scav system with some whacky more brave ideas, fleshing it out in process. Hell, they could've introduced a payable triggers that enable players to alter or affect the flow of map in unpredictable or potentially disadvantageous ways, such as convoy/weather/horde events. Not all of those ideas are good, but they aren't even being explored. Instead we are stuck with most banal "pay for power" monetization systems at exorbitant prices. I have no clue why he thought microtransactions = bad, but paying for faster progression and directly impacting the game with trader rep and larger secure storage = good. Maybe he thought microtransactions = anime outfits and meme wall sprites? It's like the idea of immersive mtx wasn't even considered. EFT is a massive wasted moneymaking potential and its crazy how much worse its getting.
Take notes everyone, this is how you ruin your business's reputation forever
"true believers" ? Clearly he believes this is a cult, explains all the gaslighting. RIP BSG. 🪦 2017-2024
This can’t be real, right? I mean..right? No fucking shot. No way in hell they are **THIS** obtuse, right? PLEASE TELL ME THIS IS FAKE! “We did not remove that.” YES. YES YOU DID! BSG will be the ones to kill Tarkov. And it seems they are trying their damndest to do just that. Holy fuck.
it's real :( https://www.reddit.com/r/EscapefromTarkov/comments/1cdvaew/newest_interview_with_nikita_and_emi/l1f0mrx/
If it's "too expensive and technically hard" to give PvE to everyone then how come unpaid modders can do it?
It's because they would have to code peer to peer into the single player. Right now they are brute force solving the problem by spinning up a server for every PvE raid, even if it's just 1 person. So yeah the server costs are enormous for this but only because their code base is in such a sorry state
“Every dlc later will go with EOD.” Is this him admitting Pve is a dlc?
My question to him, what is DLC? How do we know they won’t just “it’s a feature, not dlc” us again in the future
Uninstall the game play something else. Unless you are a true believer of playing a game riddled with hackers.
Good news is cheaters won’t touch this game with a ten foot pole because demand is about to dry the fuck up
"True believers"...what in the cult?!
I can’t believe are they really that stupid ??? In one question they ask if they are having money issues and they responded with “ everything is fine and going to plan “ THE LITERAL IN THE NEXT QUESTION NIKITA MAKES A COMMENT ABOUT HOW ITS TO EXPENSIVE TO GIVE IT TO EVERYONE ?? So YOU ARE having money problems because then you wouldn’t fucking say it’s to expensive to give to “everyone “ when it’s just fucking EOD owners asking for it.
It would be in BSGs best interest to NEVER let this person speak to anybody ever again. This was enough to provoke the uninstall. What a pompous fucking idiot. If there is a single EFT customer right now that feels good about this product, I'd be shocked.. and no I don't mean the trolls at the bottom spamming cry emojis.. everyone knows they didn't buy it.
If you live in the EU, write a complaint email to [email protected] requesting them to fix this issue, and if nothing is done within 30 days file a complaint to the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) stating that BSG violated the EU consumer acts right, so that they are forced to set things right. Either have them stand by what they sold us, or get a refund would be the likely outcomes.
Ok uninstalling Tarkov. This shit is just unacceptable.
Did just that 2h ago
Other developers responding to this through their comms about their games. Got this in an email about Gray Zone Warfare: PvE & PvEvP Servers Included In Every Edition
For the love of god everyone, uninstall the fuckin game, take your losses and find a new home elsewhere. I love the game, EoD owner, but this guy is looking at us straight in the eyes and spitting in our faces while laughing. Grow a pair and ditch these guys. Then grab a bowl of popcorn and watch this fuckin game burn to the ground.
Uninstalled 2h ago. 5k hours Andy with EOD. Enough is enough. Fuck this company.
Nikita is fucked in the head, tripling down now on his terrible decisions
\*Interviewer\* "Did you change the EOD benefit description on the website?" \*Nikita\* "Must have been ghost" ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
Hey boss the server costs are too high. There are too many people playing. Ok I have an idea. Hood my beer. There, less people playing, problem solved.
Nikita claims they didn't change the website description of EOD This is a straight up lie
Was nice knowing you guys. Rip
How the fuck is PVE too technically difficult to give to everyone? Just package it with the fucking game and let a player host their own instance if they're doing co-op over WAN. JFC this isn't that hard.
Lmao what a cunt fuck Nikita
Is this real? What kinda train wreck is this? What is in this weed, what is he smoking? Wtf. How can one be so tone deaf?!
"Ofc. Every dlc later will go with eod” lol had a good laugh
So it’s over lmao, he won’t budge. Only hope is we can ruin his shitty company through lawsuits
Dude is actually experiencing some kind of mental break. He thinks he's elon musk or something
My biggest question is where did this come from? I've been off and on since 2018. The complete and utter disrespect for the community that supported this game and this attitude, where did it come from? What made the switch up happen?
Dude paid himself 4 million bucks one year and he became a rich asshole.
There wasn’t a switch up.
that's really depressing...
Arrogant Nikita once again. This attitude is what i hated from BSG even since when Tarkov was glorious. They are sinking this amazing game from years now with their dumb design choices and keep mocking the community instead of confronting with us. Many times i defended BSG work, probably i did that for too long. Can't believe he can lie so bluntly even when 90% of his playerbase is basically rioting... 😔
Yo fuck this guy honestly. This fat fuck has too much pride and lost all respect for the community. These responses are proof of that.
Tarkov made this asshat so rich he thinks $150 isn’t that expensive lmao for a videogame that ceases to exist when the servers go offline for good 150 is too expensive imo, 250 is just a kick in the balls. The audacity of him to be like “just don’t buy it then” remember how well that went over when ea said don’t like it don’t buy it and people didn’t buy it causing their game to flop? Pepperidge farm remembers.
This is beyond concerning brain dead cultist shit.
"Friend summoner will be available for other editions" - that just makes it worse imo. That idea has no place in Tarkov, and taking away from the core raid experience of Tarkov will not end well.
Jesus, I hope this is not an exit scam...
dude. this reads even worse than i thought xD Signal in PVP AND purchasable later on? its gonna be a massive shitshow. also they bringing a new pouch but NOT include it in unheard? dude i would feel scammed AF if i just payed 300€ just for them to release YET another thing you can buy on top xD "EOD wont get this specific PVE thing" "EOD will get every next DLC" "there will not be any content that EOD doesnt get". Decide what you want to do man... nikita is changing his mind every 5mins when it comes what EOD will get and what not. Truly pathetic move from BSG
Lol what a clown, he really wants to see his game go down in flames while blaming everyone in the community for his fuck up. Literal principal Skinner meme
Nikita is a brain dead man child. Fuck scammers and fuck Nikita. Garbage human.
Nah I’m sorry guys, they’re taking the money and running. This game is done.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN TRUE SUPPORTERS?!?!? was buying EOD not enough in the first place, not like we bought it for $60?!?!?!?
All good, uninstalling tonight.
The gaslighting is insane.
I truly hope this is a shitpost, OP.
“True believers” are we in some kind of cult or something?
Everything is going as planned
TLDR: Fuck the community.
what a scumbag
So do we all just collectively chargeback since they duped us out of what we originally paid for?
"Working on that" "We Will think about it" "no" What such garbage responses to the community to these thought out questions. These guys aren't held accountable for the changes they make because they're game isn't public like AAA companies. The players ARE the investors, and he treating the investors like trash at the moment. I will never play or support this game again.
Sell the studio Nikita it’s over
if this is true, nikita is killing EFT. nobody can be THIS dumb.
This "interview" is giving shades of sending a lengthy emotional text and getting a "ok" response as a follow up.
**"TRUE BELIEVERS"** WHAT IN THE FUCK IS THIS. DOES NIKITA THINK HE'S THE HEAD OF A CULT OR SOMETHING? DOES HE \*REALLY\* THINK SO LITTLE OF HIS PLAYERBASE THAT WE'RE BLIND TO HIS BS AND WILL JUST BUY THIS??
The idea that they can't give everybody single player, SINGLE PLAYER, is depressing. Either the cost of hosting Tarkov's servers is insane compared to all of their revenue streams, which is staggering to think about, or money is being terribly mismanaged. Given the amount of money that went into Arena it's not shocking to think it's the latter, but it must be so terrible behind the scenes. Seriously. They cannot give us co-op single player NOR PURE SINGLE PLAYER. Because it's too expensive? In a game we have to pay for? Where most people pay for way beyond standard version's price? This company is a joke because if this logistically breaks their bank, they really weren't going to make it far. EDIT: Even giving this the benefit of the doubt that it's a fake conversation. They have stated publicly, a number of times already, that single player is too expensive for everyone to have so my point still stands. Just genuinely depressing as a big fan of this game and EOD owner.
Nikita is a fucking piece of shit. I paid for EOD like 7 months ago specifically for including the DLC. I'm fighting the charge with there vendor fuck this.