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Ark: Survival Evolved-utvecklarna försvarar prishöjningen

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Det är inte direkt någon hemlighet att det varit en hel del bråk kring prishöjningen av Ark: Survival Evolved, trots att spelet inte ens släppts officiellt ännu. En av de som reagerat är DayZ-skaparen Dean Hall som levererade saftig kritik mot den nya prislappen. Men nu försvarar lead programmer Jeremy Stieglitz beslutet i en intervju med PC Gamer där han bland annat säger:

"Admittedly, my intent, our intent, was to have the price hit the full retail price when the full retail launch occurred. That would have been at the retail launch, not prior to that. The reality turned out to be, and we didn't realise this until we got to the final phase of getting the game into retail channels, was that: in order to get the game into retailers—that is not digital retailers but physical ones, both for the physical disc PC version and the console version—the retailers and distributors wouldn't take it if the digital versions was cheaper than the retail version. They found that it would undermine their sales potential."

Han fortsätter med att förklara att värdet "certainly will be there at the date of retail launch—that means you buy it now for $60 [USD], for example, in three weeks it's going to be $60. It would've been $60 in three weeks anyway and we wouldn't release a game that we didn't feel was worth that. We're really confident that there's a hell of a lot of value in that package—content, features and fun gameplay."

Stieglitz säger att han fattar att detta gjort folk sura, men menar att det inte fanns någon utväg innan han avslutar:

"Given it was close to launch we decided to bite the bullet on it. Was it the right decision? I can't say but it was motivated by the need to get the game on store shelves and our hand was ultimately forced from that standpoint."

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