The First Descendant has loved a giant launch, however it’s additionally been marred by a variety of points that developer Nexon has continued to apologize and provide compensation for.
Since the free-to-play co-op centered looter shooter launched a protracted listing of points has emerged, together with frame-rate issues, the failure to ship on promised gadgets such as Twitch drops, and for some gamers, the failure to ship gadgets they’ve paid real-world cash for.
The latter subject revolves round an issue the place prospects have but to obtain gadgets once they’ve purchased the identical merchandise a number of instances by means of the basket on Steam or the PlayStation or Xbox platform shops.
Developer Nexon issued an replace on this “mass Caliber buy error,” promising a repair. In the meantime, it requested gamers to purchase “Caliber” gadgets (gadgets which are purchased with the premium in-game forex that’s itself purchased with real-world cash), individually “to keep away from any inconvenience.”
For individuals who purchased gadgets from July 2-4 and have but to obtain them, these purchases will likely be canceled, Nexon warned. “The identical measures will likely be taken for any additional mass purchases till the error is resolved,” Nexon mentioned.
“We apologize as soon as once more for the inconvenience attributable to this error. We’re working diligently to repair the subject as quickly as attainable to reduce inconvenience.”
In the meantime, producer Lee Beom-jun printed a developer chat to YouTube by which he thanked and apologized to gamers. In the video, the Nexon developer promised a hotfix that will optimize efficiency of the PlayStation 5 model (The First Descendant runs notably poorly on PS5). There’s work on these lacking Twitch drop rewards, as nicely as a promise for gun sound enhancements and crash fixes.
Apparently, Lee Beom-jun supplied a proof of types for The First Descendant’s controversial third-party information assortment and sharing coverage that Nexon asks gamers to conform to earlier than enjoying the sport. This private info sharing, one in every of the main complaints amid the sport’s ‘blended’ Steam person critiques score, is supposedly required as a result of Nexon makes use of it to trace what gamers are doing in The First Descendant with a purpose to enhance it. Lee Beom-jun insisted Nexon doesn’t use gamers’ private information, slightly the nicknames they select.
There isn’t any clarification for The First Descendant’s extremely aggressive monetization, nevertheless, which some gamers have described as “microtransaction hell.”
Regardless of all these issues, The First Descendant has loved a giant launch, with an enormous 239,513 peak concurrent gamers thus far on Steam. That’s sufficient to place the sport in Steam’s prime 5 most-played video games. Sony and Microsoft don’t share participant numbers. Take a look at IGN’s The First Descendant evaluation in progress to search out out what we consider the sport thus far.
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