Escape from Tarkov has failed, as you may see the reviews aren’t shaping up to be good, and things will get even worse for the PC game. Pioneering, at least according to them, the genre of extraction shooters, Escape from Tarkov failed to deliver and there has been times it even treason the player base. It is sad, but so are many live service titles that fail to respect the people who support them. Companies often care about money and not about how happy players are playing the game itself, there’s a ton of problems caused by these games, and Escape from Tarkov stepped on all branches.
Escape from Tarkov fails on Steam
Once you reputation is muddied, you can’t really get back up in the gaming world, or in any place for that matter. People who paid for the game when it wasn’t on Steam will have to pay for it again, an absolute crazy thing to pull off instead of linking accounts. The worst part is that the game does need you to link a third party account to the Steam client, so they could have made this into a feature. Escape from Tarkov is also known to use invasive and terrible cheat detection systems that make your hardware vulnerable to attackers.
We know, cheaters are the scourge of online gaming, and people want to see them gone. However, would you risk your PC for the ability to prevent cheaters even if back in the day you didn’t need to do that? There’s various tools that don’t fiddle with your privacy and your system, why aren’t they using them instead? It is clear that many of these live service operations are pretty much hellbent on trying to collect personal data in any way possible. When these games are free, its clear that you are the product.
