Simply yesterday, Morgan noticed that tanking a recreation’s Steam score has turn out to be a reflexive response to PC gaming grievances massive and small. Now, as Helldivers 2’s consumer assessment common recovers from its weekend PSN account linking fiasco, one other recreation is being hit with a smaller, however nonetheless conspicuous, inflow of destructive Steam consumer critiques.
The current critiques for house sim Elite Harmful are sitting at a “Blended” score as some gamers specific disappointment over new provides within the recreation’s retailer.
The newest replace for the almost decade-old Milky Manner simulation provides a brand new ship, the Python Mk II, however just for these prepared to spend not less than 16,250 ARX, a foreign money that may be earned in-game (however with a 400 ARX per week most) or bought with actual cash. The ship will not be accessible for the non-purchasable in-game foreign money, known as credit, till August 7.
Together with early entry to the brand new ship, Elite developer Frontier has added highly effective pre-built ships to the ARX retailer. “We envision these Pre-built Ships to be a faster manner for newer gamers to become involved within the areas they’ve essentially the most curiosity in, or for our current gamers who’re contemplating a brand new profession path in recreation, however shouldn’t have time to dedicate to a brand new construct from scratch,” the studio stated in April.
Some gamers aren’t taking such a constructive view of the change.
“They went pay to win!” declared one current Steam reviewer. “The entire level of the sport is to earn credit, discover a phenomenal galaxy, and purchase ships. The place is the issue with this? Nicely now you’ll be able to skip the work to earn credit for ships and simply pay actual cash for pre-built ships to do what ever you need. Do not even get me began on the truth that the brand new Python MK2 is locked behind a money store pay wall till August 7. What a disgrace it was an excellent recreation.”
With simply over 550 new Steam critiques averaging to a “Blended” score over the month for the reason that announcement, that is actually no Helldivers 2 scenario, which noticed that recreation bombarded with over 200,000 destructive Steam critiques in a single weekend after the now-retracted announcement that linking a PSN account was changing into necessary. Elite has far fewer energetic gamers than this yr’s greatest hit, clearly, however the ARX retailer additions additionally have not united its entire playerbase in discontent in the identical manner the PSN difficulty did with Helldivers 2 gamers—some are high-quality with it.
“I am truly all for the microtransactions route because it’s being dealt with,” stated one participant on Reddit. “I imply, the ship is basically a timer unique for these prepared to pay out, however will not be locked behind that ceaselessly. As somebody who has little interest in microtransactions I am not dropping out on something, I am simply not getting it as quickly which I’m high-quality with. [Frontier] are giving the gamers the selection. It isn’t like they’re turning the sport right into a subscription mannequin the place for those who don’t pay you’ll be able to’t play.”
The various views of its gamers have saved Elite from bearing the crimson “Latest critiques: Principally destructive” mark of disgrace, however for now it should endure the yellow “Latest critiques: Blended” tag. Elite’s general Steam assessment common stays “Principally constructive.”