EPTI will not be getting this game.
Evolve by Turtle Rock Studios - Page 3
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Body_Shield
Canada3368 Posts
I will not be getting this game. | ||
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Aurra
United States469 Posts
On February 08 2015 23:43 crappen wrote: I dont get this DLC mess. So as I buy the full game, I don't get access to its full set of hunters, which can as the meta evolves, be kind of "required". I can not fulfill a certain role as a hunter if I dont have the DLC, or I cant be this certain monster that is gonna wreck/cause-trouble-to this new set of composition of hunters? What kind of reputation does 2K have as a publisher? Why didn't they chose Valve for gods sake. I'm just asking, I actually know too little, but I have this bad feeling this game will flop hard. I think with the right community and the way they talked it was built around modding, it could turn into something fantastic. None of the DLC characters are available yet -- they are all still in development. No ETA for their release, either. You have access to all non-cosmetic content that is currently finished by simply buying the base 60$ game. When the future characters are done you can make a judgement call at that time regarding if you want to purchase them or not. Or you can assume you will want them and buy them now if you want, but pre-ordering anything with no concrete information is really silly. | ||
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GertHeart
United States631 Posts
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karazax
United States3737 Posts
Here is a summary of the different versions they are selling: Evolve Monster Race Edition: Exclusive to PC. This gets you EVERYTHING: the base game, Season Pass, all the pre-order content, and most importantly a fifth monster to play. On top of that, there are two extra playable hunter characters and four monster skins that will be exclusive to the Monster Race Edition until March 13th. Evolve Digital Deluxe: Right now the Digital Deluxe is only available for the Xbox One and PC (with the PS4 planned for later). This version is essentially everything you’d expect to get in the base game and Season Pass, with a slight price break over buying each separately (as well as any pre-order content if you pre-order the Deluxe). Evolve Standard Edition Pre-order Bonus: The Standard Edition of the game is available for PC, PS4, and Xbox One platforms. Pre-ordering gets you two pre-order bonuses – the “Savage Goliath” skin for the Goliath Monster, and the Behemoth as a playable monster. They make a decent pre-order value when you consider the Behemoth DLC will cost an extra $14.99 once the February 10th release date arrives. Evolve Hunting Season Pass: The Season Pass will grant the buyer four new hunters when they come out in the spring of this year. If you pre-order the Season Pass, you’ll also get three exclusive “Magma monster skins” for the Goliath, Kraken, and Wraith monsters. Evolve's release date is tomorrow. | ||
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Zidane
United States1689 Posts
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VirtuallyJesse
United States398 Posts
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TheTenthDoc
United States9561 Posts
Shame, because the game looks nice. | ||
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Latham
9566 Posts
I'm gonna check around for the best price, but the words "best possible platform for DLC" is turning my blood into ice. It deserves all the bashing from big names like Jim Sterling and Totalbiscuit and AngryJoe, because selling DLC that is not even made yet is absolutely disgusting regardless whether the base game is good. | ||
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karazax
United States3737 Posts
![[image loading]](https://cascade.madmimi.com/promotion_images/0873/8991/original/001_01.png?1423544798) https://www.direct2play.com/steam-drm/718-evolve-steam-cdkey-global.html At that price I'm willing to try it. The only thing that should be missing is the 5th monster, which should be $15 if there are no sales or discounts later, 2 additional hunters, and some skins. It's not 100% clear that it's the digital deluxe version, but that is the only one that is regular price $79.99, the basic game is $59.99 and monster pc is $99.99 EDIT: As far as I can tell this is just the normal version of the game, not digital deluxe. No indications that the season pass is included, so the advertised retail price they are discounting from is misleading. Still not a bad deal, and it comes with the preorder DLC, but not a 46% discount like they advertise. | ||
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hariooo
Canada2830 Posts
THAT BEING SAID the DLC practices and upfront cost make no sense to me. i have to convince a few friends to pony up the same amount of money, hope they stick with me through additional DLC, and just flake out on them if i want to solo queue as monster? so weird. and for as many game modes as they're promising, it's kind of a shame they don't have a 4v4 game mode in case people just want to pewpewpew with friends. so still a not buy because everything involved in playing the game outside the game itself is simply way too frustrating. full stop. | ||
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MaestroSC
United States2073 Posts
Was hyped for it. Watched a ton of it at Pax Prime, was super excited along with a couple friends... read about the DLC and pricing and now not one of us plans on touching it. Sends the wrong message to even purchase a game that comes with on-release DLC. | ||
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Godwrath
Spain10132 Posts
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SixStrings
Germany2046 Posts
How can you possibly expect to spend 80 quid and get a full game? | ||
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bluQ
Germany1724 Posts
Guys ... just play Nosgoth! On February 13 2015 17:35 Godwrath wrote: From what you are saying it looks like a F2P model, but withouth the free part. Or how it was called in my days: demo. | ||
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karazax
United States3737 Posts
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Disengaged
United States6994 Posts
Its going to die like Titanfall. Hopefully. Have to show companies that we aren't going to take this shit anymore. | ||
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Godwrath
Spain10132 Posts
On February 14 2015 01:33 karazax wrote: They made some terrible marketing moves with the different DLC versions at retail, but it is a good game. They should have just sold one version at lauch and sold all the extra DLC a few months from now and the complaints would have been minimal even if the effect was the same. Right now none of the versions above the basic actually gives you anything anyway, just promises to give it to you when it's ready for release. I don't blame anyone for boycotting the game for selling up to $40 worth of promised DLC at launch, but when it eventually goes on sale at a huge discount with all the DLC included on steam at some point in a game of the year edition or whatever, it is worth checking out. The problem is, how many people will be playing this when it finally goes on sale ? | ||
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FeyFey
Germany10114 Posts
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Lucumo
6850 Posts
On February 13 2015 18:05 bluQ wrote: Or how it was called in my days: demo. Do they even exist anymore these days? Well, gaming has certainly gone downhill since then (in my opinion). | ||
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Endymion
United States3701 Posts
I'm sorry but I don't see how anyone can purchase this game with the current games market.. On steam, you can get amazingly polished DLC free indie gems for like 5 dollars with hundreds of hours of gameplay, or you can pay $60 (or however much euro/sea/asian regions have to pay, generally 20 USD equiv more than domestic usa markets..) for a DLC selling platform for a lackluster game. I see people comparing Evolve to Titanfall a lot, except I don't remember Titanfall having a lot (if any) of DLC, it was just super content light.. But the fact of the matter is that Titanfall's mechanics were well done, the game was smart with its combination of quake-like movement, COD aiming, and mech utilization (not to mention its attempt to integrate moba mechanics to make the game different from from traditional TDM/domination shooters..). To this day I still think Titanfall has awesome ideas, and I think that Titanfall 2 will far eclipse COD/battlefield when it eventually comes out (given that it's a more fully packed game). Evolve, however, isn't anything new, at all... They can try to spin it as a new asymmetric shooter, but when I played the beta it felt like a combination of a generic ass FPS with mediocre shooting mechanics with a warcraft 3 custom game style monster progression system.. That might sound strange, but this game is something I would expect from WC3's UMS scene (without the FPS element, just the tracking and leveling up etc). Now the thing is, on WC3 one this game would have been free, two it would have a lot more crazy ass mechanics that the devs either didn't include or are holding out on for DLC.. Nothing in Evolve makes me go "wow that was badass I would have never thought that would be in this kinda game," it's all generic safe skills that are aimed at not frustrating newer players (which there won't be any, because this game will be dead within the week). WC3 UMS could have done this game better 100%, not even factoring 80USD for the dlc platform and 150USD more for the whole package on day one. If you want to play this game, just go buy warcraft three and play UMS, you'll get 100000% more out of WC3 in terms of variety, and hell you can probably even find evolve there too. The DLC though... LOL... I can't believe people are even defending the devs.. what did they say? "We need to feed our families so we're going to accentuate revenue streams by creating additional avenues of funding?" I'm paraphrasing from reddit, but the fact that they're playing to the emotions of their consumers instead of you know, making a good game, should tell you to steer clear. If it was a good game, they wouldn't need to make excuses and qualify their BS dlc practices, they would have made the game 30USD and sold more copies on the merit of the game's awesome experience (ie natural selection 2 for 20USD, a much better game as well). Who is reinforcing these practices? Like who in their right mind is like "yeah, i'll drop 80USD equiv on a shitty game that i'll play for 3 hours instead of an awesome indie on steam." The value per USD return is so out of wack, although if it works I will be very impressed by their marketing team. | ||
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