Escape from Tarkov\u2019s efforts to move on from its early access period and become a full release have not gone smoothly. Steam users lament a variety of concerns with the new 1.0 release, from gripes over the pricing of different versions to complaints that just launching the game is a laborious and frustrating process.<\/p>\n
On November 15, hardcore extraction shooter Escape from Tarkov saw two notable events occur. Firstly, it emerged from a beta status, which it was in for over eight years, into the full, official 1.0 release. And secondly, it arrived on Steam. Unfortunately, as the game\u2019s director Nikita Buyanov seems to have anticipated<\/a>, user reviews on the platform have met the game with scorn, dragging the overall rating into \u201cMixed\u201d status for its English reviews.<\/p>\n \u201c[It\u2019s] one of the most premium pieces of launcher software I have ever purchased,\u201d reads one<\/a> of the top \u201cMost Helpful\u201d negative reviews on Steam. \u201cGreat hardcore experience, it already starts with trying to launch the game \u2013 10\/10\u201d reads a cleverly disguised \u201cpositive\u201d review<\/a> in the same category. That critique doesn\u2019t seem to be an overreaction either, as several other reviews cite an hours-long struggle<\/a> just to get into the game.<\/p>\n These launch issues follow recent turmoil within the game\u2019s community over the fact that the Steam version would require a separate purchase<\/a> for those who already owned the game. And that controversy came fresh after developer Battlestate Games faced tough criticism over a controversial $250 version of the game<\/a>. Like your average game of EFT, it\u2019s messy.<\/p>\n Tarkov\u2019s tough-as-nails gameplay will probably always appeal to a select and discriminating group of shooter aficionados. Still, this poor reception arrives with some unfortunate timing as the extraction shooter genre has seemingly never been more popular; Arc Raiders\u2019 persistent status in the top three most-played games<\/a> on Steam and the wide appeal of Escape from Duckov<\/a> speak to a rise in popularity, one in which genre pioneer EFT feels notably left out of the conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Escape from Tarkov\u2019s efforts to move on from its early access period and become a full release have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[130560,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-299023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-escape-from-tarkov","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}