Highguard, the brand new free-to-play shooter from builders who beforehand labored on Titanfall and Apex Legends, is out now–and the sport is supported by microtransactions. Developer Wildlight has now shared some context that speaks to the studio’s philosophy about microtransactions and adverts.
Jason Torfin, the VP of product and publishing at Wildlight, instructed PC Gamer that the staff constructed Highguard’s in-game retailer to be one thing its personal staff would possibly wish to use.
“Meaning beauty solely, direct buy solely, no FOMO, no pay for energy. No pay to win, pay walling, no RNG, no loot bins,” Torfin stated.
Some free-to-play video games, and even some paid ones, additionally embody in-game pop-up adverts highlighting new content material to purchase. However Highguard will not do that.
“We’ve got essentially the most rudimentary message of the day system ever, as a result of we wish you to simply enter the world and depart you the hell alone till you wish to go take a look at [the store],” Torfin defined. “Some video games could make you are feeling such as you’ve walked into one thing from Minority Report, the place you are simply inundated with adverts on all sides. We do not need that.”
Highguard additionally doesn’t have loot bins. Lead designer Mohammad Alavi stated Wildlight’s artists are “truly excited” to make the microtransaction objects “as a result of they’re solely making top-tier stuff.”
Sport director Chad Grenier additionally commented on the opportunity of Highguard including licensed skins or different content material like many different video games have. For now, Grenier stated these sorts of skins may not come to Highguard, but when they did, they’d have to be the “proper match for the IP and our world.”
“We’re very enthusiastic about our IP and our world, and now we have a number of storytelling we wish to do in-game and out-of-game sooner or later, and so, that makes injecting actual world branding into it not essentially the suitable match,” he stated.
Highguard solely simply launched, however the builders have already laid out plans for lots extra content material to return later this yr.