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Evolve [Turtle Rock] web page gets countdown
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It's a great way to essentially relaunch a game and get tonnes of free press and new players. There are plenty of successful games that operate on this model already, but Evolve wasn't given this chance since it was priced in a way that a lot of people fundamentally disagreed with, back at launch.
OdysseusVA
Banned
Nice find
I enjoyed my time with the beta but the DLC mess definitely soured my interest.
Off-Kilter
Banned
I still don't understand where this game went wrong. Everything I've seen leading up to release was good shit.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Are they shutting down the servers?
StrangeTaco
Member
Too much DLC, not enough content, little to no balance patching the first 8 months, overpowered monsters, lack of game modes, inability to fix certain bugs for months on end, and just generally the gameplay wasn't interesting until the fight started.
Think that about sums it up.
Since its also matchmaking only once the playerbase started dropping it dropped like a rock.
I hope not, I got my PS4 copy still sealed that I got for $10
#Gottaboostthemtrophies
Broadbandito
Member
Hope it goes f2p, boosts new community #s
LordRaptor
Member
Yeah, I'm in the same boat, and its why I was hoping for a sale in the steam sale; beta was good fun, but I didn't want to support their DLC practices, so was waiting to buy the "ultimate edition" at reduced price - hopefully sending the message that it was purely the pricing I as a consumer had a problem with.
If it does got F2P it actually solves the other concern I'd have as a late buyer, namely that what playerbase there is left are all grizzled veterans at max rank who are going to give me nothing but shit while I play, learn and levelup
I'm a fan of the game, but this is all pretty much accurate.
Bumblebeetuna
Member
Pre-release buzz was misleading because everyone who had played it and was hyping the shit out of it essentially play it in couch MP mode with their friends, which made the game way more enjoyable than it was. When it released, the reality was most people connected with 4 strangers and had long, boring matches.
The DLC stuff also came into play, even though imho it was entirely unwarranted. But an avalanche of bitching started and there was no stopping it, logic or reality be damned.
Since the initial launch the game has been in a constant state of glitches, bugs, and slow changes to the meta, which has pretty much always drastically favored good hunter teams.
They've been hyping update 9.0 for months, we'll see what it does for the meta.
orichalcos
Member
Ok, its F2P...
ChaosZeroX
Banned
Why would they bother making this F2P? Just make evolve 2 and fix everything that was wrong with the first one.
Souldestroyer Reborn
Banned
Savage.
This. The core of the game is fundamentally flawed. F2P won't fix that.
Prototype Viktor
Member
$1.99 for the deals
8-Bit Sunset
Banned
Even if this is made F2P isn't this a classic case of "too little, too late"?
Game was a snore fest and it will take nothing short of a miracle to change that!
Game was a snore fest and it will take nothing short of a miracle to change that!
The whole DLC hysterics were waaaaay out of proportion. All of the DLC at launch was just lazy pallete swaps for the guns. The game had lots of other problems that basically went ignored by the hate train. Most people just threw out blanket DLC scam/game's boring! without taking the time with it. Not to say it wasn't boring/severely flawed/mediocre, but I'd say most didn't give the game an honest chance before coming to that conclusion.
The game had two season passes, like $1000 in DLC (cosmetic or not, looking at the store page and seeing the DLC list scared me away), and had day one $15 character DLC. Now it goes F2P a little over a year after release? What the fuck. Why couldn't they just bundle it all together for $30 and do a Complete Edition campaign? Instead, they look to screw over those that bought into the game already (many more people than Battleborn, btw) and nickle and dime those that may check the game out.
I loved the Evolve beta and thought the game had HUGE potential coming from people that know how to make a fun online game, Left 4 Dead. They killed any chance the game had with their aggressive and gross DLC strategy, and look to make it worse.
I loved the Evolve beta and thought the game had HUGE potential coming from people that know how to make a fun online game, Left 4 Dead. They killed any chance the game had with their aggressive and gross DLC strategy, and look to make it worse.
Kagoshima_Luke
Gold Member
Pretty sure they did bundle everything, which I recently saw on sale for $19.99 on Amazon.
valkillmore
Member
If it's free-2-play I will give it at least a Thursday night online.
jediyoshi
Member
$30 gate isn't going to solve the issue of a low player base. They'd just be charging $30 for a dead game.
Huh. Looks like they might really be going F2P. Somehow I don't feel it'll work out in the long term. Might give it another shot with friends if it goes free though.
Also, I feel really bad about this but when I first saw the title, I read it as "Turtle Rock (Evolve) gets shutdown" instead.
Also, I feel really bad about this but when I first saw the title, I read it as "Turtle Rock (Evolve) gets shutdown" instead.
Crimsonclaw111
Member
Unless the game is fixed from the ground up even f2p won't save this mess.
Only pc?
My guess, yeah. So much easier to patch and quickly update things on PC because you don't need to pass patches through MS/Sony cert.
Look at CSGO or TF2 on consoles compared to PC, if you need a point of reference.
Was really hoping it would be on all platforms.
Would've been fun to try with my friends on Xbox.
You can pick it up for like $4 on Amazon for the base game, alternatively get the ult edition for $18 on the Xbox store.
That said i'm 100% sure it will be coming to consoles in the new year, there is no point doing it now as any buzz will be taken by Infinite Warfare, Battlefield1, TitanFall 2, Division expansion, Destiny Expansion and the Overwatch update which are all coming out soon.
I thought this game was really fun and cool, i mostly played with bots though so maybe that's why.
jediyoshi
Member
I imagine once they have everything actually developed and working, they'd be open to it. The logistics of transitioning a game from paid to f2p is probably different than a game being f2p to begin with.
wesleyshark
Banned
Nvm F2P on PC only haha
Glitchesarecool
Member
No
PFFF HAHA wow what a reward for all those people who paid, being super vague. I wonder what the "gifts" will be.
OdysseusVA
Banned
PC only? Oh
Well I guess I can continue not playing Evolve
Well I guess I can continue not playing Evolve
MacMan
Co-Founder
1h
The beta is on Steam because it allows us to iterate very quickly, to listen to feedback and respond in record time (we are able to work on a weekly patch schedule.) We can test new features most effectively here, figure out what works and what doesn't with intent to bring it to the consoles should it prove successful.
Co-Founder
1h
The beta is on Steam because it allows us to iterate very quickly, to listen to feedback and respond in record time (we are able to work on a weekly patch schedule.) We can test new features most effectively here, figure out what works and what doesn't with intent to bring it to the consoles should it prove successful.
Which is the truth of it, really. It doesn't make sense for TRS to spend/invest on a console F2P version yet if it's unproven. Evolve F2P on PC might not take, for all anyone knows at this point.
AusRoachman
Member
Surely that means they are no longer going to sell it on consoles whilst they fine tune the pc beta ?
Right?........ nah doubt it.
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