Excellent news! There’s a brand new Earth Protection Drive recreation and it’s out now! Unhealthy information, if you wish to play the sport on-line on Steam you’ll should create an Epic Video games account. This reality was revealed on launch day and went over so poorly with gamers that the devs behind the brand new big bug-killin’ recreation are already asserting plans to take away the requirement after simply 24 hours.
Earth Protection Drive 6—the highly-anticipated subsequent entry within the third-person sci-fi shooter collection all about blasting big monsters—launched on Steam on July 25. It’s the primary principal entry within the cult basic franchise since 2019. Folks have been excited to get their palms on the sport, which launched in Japan in 2022 however is just now arriving within the US on PS4, PS5, and PC. EDF 6 guarantees extra missions (all of that are playable by way of on-line co-op) than any earlier entry. However the recreation shortly obtained a ton of detrimental evaluations on Steam due to a beforehand unannounced Epic Video games account requirement for on-line play.
On July 25, the day EDF 6 launched, a put up went up on the sport’s Steam page quietly confirming that gamers would wish to create and log into an Epic Video games account to play the shooter on-line.
Gamers weren’t blissful about this, criticizing the devs for not making this clear earlier than launch and for forcing them to make use of a unique account outdoors of Steam to play on-line. What adopted was about 24 hours of gamers evaluate bombing EDF 6 on Valve’s digital storefront. As reported by GamesRadar, by the tip of launch day, EDF 6 had over 1,000 evaluations and a “Principally Destructive” standing on Steam.
EDF 6 devs announce adjustments to Epic account requirement
On Friday, simply 24 hours after this all began and in response to the overwhelmingly detrimental evaluations, EDF 6′s devs revealed a brand new put up on Steam confirming that it had heard all of the “suggestions” and was going to make some adjustments.
“Thanks on your suggestions on Earth Protection Forces 6,” stated developer Sandlot. “The EDF 6 growth crew for Steam is reviewing and planning adjustments to the specification that requires sign-in to Epic Video games account, which has obtained essentially the most suggestions.”
Sandlot didn’t share any specifics on when it is going to change the Epic Video games account requirement however needed to guarantee followers that sure, they heard all of the yelling and noticed all of the detrimental evaluations, and at the moment are engaged on fixing the state of affairs.
This complete fiasco jogs my memory of the Helldivers 2 PSN requirement meltdown that occurred earlier this 12 months. Like with EDF 6, gamers evaluate bombed the favored sci-fi shooter’s Steam web page sufficient that Sony ultimately relented and backpedaled on its PSN requirement.
If I had a nickel for each time a third-person co-op shooter about killing bugs in area had angered its followers by requiring a third-party account to play on-line on Steam…
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