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Dying Light 2 adds a premium currency, cue the Steam review bomb
11.09.2023 - 16:11 / pcgamer.com
Techland has released the Summertime update for Dying Light 2: Stay Human, which comes with the kind of sunshine news every player loves to hear about: the game's added a premium currency. Yay! Microtransactions are not new to Dying Light, with the first game offering several bundles over the course of its long and well-supported life, but these have previously been purchasable via online stores and the trusty method of the US dollar (or whatever your local currency may be).
So clearly Techland wants a bigger slice of the pie. The developer has posted an FAQ about DL Points which claims they are «a straightforward way for you to buy bundles without the need to leave the game [and] also make our lives easier, because we won’t have to set up the bundles on multiple outside stores.» For the moment, players can still buy stuff in the old way, but Techland's intent is clearly to phase this out, with the FAQ saying this will remain an option «for now» (outside of the PlayStation Store, from which it is removing all existing bundles.)
The announcement comes with 500 DL Points for existing players (which need to be redeemed before October 7), though it doesn't appear that this bonanza is actually enough to buy anything decent. This is one of the big problems for players: you can buy 500 points for $5, but most bundles cost 550 points. Previously you could buy that bundle with real money for $6 or whatever the case may be, but now you'll have to spend $10 to get 1,100 DL Points and basically put more money into game upfront. The biggest bundle offered is 6,500 DL points for $50.
Reaction has been what you'd expect. Players don't like this and, among the usual calls to boycott the game and refuse to buy any of its DLC, many are drawing a link to Techland's recent acquisition by Tencent. Techland itself addresses this in the FAQ, saying «these events are not connected at all», and that probably is the case: the acquisition only went through in July this year.
More notably, this has been put in the context of previous and well-liked community manager Uncy leaving, and his replacement saying on the game's Discord that players who have an issue with this should "play something else." For his part, Uncy seems to regard DL Points as a bad thing and has made this clear publicly.
Bro… This is easily hundreds of thousands of $ lost in community sentiment and brand image. I wish companies understood it more instead of chasing easy profit.#dyinglight #dyinglight2 pic.twitter.com/5v8MSo4jP6September 10, 2023
You already know what happened next, and the Steam review bombing campaign is ongoing in earnest. The game still holds a «mostly positive» rating for now but around 2000 recent reviews are «mixed». User cryocore is
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