Arena Breakout Infinite is Embarrassingly “Pay to Win”

Arena Breakout released in the perfect time to capture the hungry Tarkov audience, at BSG's lowest point. But they totally dropped the ball...
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[Onepeg]

I realize that this doesn’t come as much of a surprise. Shocked Pikachu meme fits so well here

[Sparkykawa]

Deals so good they're Unheard of 🤣🤣

[benlly]

i was hoping this wouldn't happened, i guess we didn't escape from tarkov

[duhmeister]

Anyone who's been following the gaming industry longer than yesterday should have seen this coming from a lightyear away.

[Beano_man]

Oh I can get a mosin and farm the “pay to win” players for less then 30k

[Sifu_]

Dang - they killed the game before it even started 😅

[PondsOfChooms]

this is so interesting, like a fully realized version of the John Riccitiello vision of charging players for a reload

[ManganeseDioxide-vh]

The thing is this is literally the same as the mobile version but I still love it, I haven’t spent a single cent on the mobile one and i have still have great time with +10 million koen and nice gear

[SweetFlexZ]

Logic: this game is P2W because you can pay for your gear
*Dies against a naked dude with a Deagle*
Sorry, but this game isn't P2W.

[eaJMusic]

I don’t understand how you address this problem but don’t address the dark and darker closing off the flea and classes through a paywall? Everyone knows the RMT’ers are an issue because they bring in cheaters to profit monetarily. I agree that the cases should at least have an option to be unlocked via gameplay but isn’t selling koen going to divert players from buying from 3rd party markets therefore cutting the amount of cheater in game? The bias towards tarkov/dark and darker vs a free to play game like ABI seems steep. I may be wrong and am genuinely curious to hear your perspective on your support for one game opposed to the other

[seaturtleman]

Time to arena breakout your credit card

[chost-]

unfortunately a really cool looking tarkov competitor ruined by being an asian game, what a shame

[originalthundercat]

And I was getting bashed when I said this was gonna happen on week one

[coltmanus]

Uncle Rico: well I coulda told you that!

[Bellonii]

Hilarious how the Tarkov streamers all cried about the garbage that BSG pulled with the unheard edition and now they're promoting a studio that straight up lied to their face and added aggressive P2W shit to their game... those Tarkov streamers are clowns.

[Merk]

Hilarious that the Tarkov community decided this game was going to be the Tarkov killer because of Tarkov's "pay to win" as if they expected a Chinese mobile game company to keep pay to win out of the game lmfao. Buncha clowns 🤡

[andrewscott]

all these people that are complaining about a free game defs bought the 300$ tarkov build. you can get the basic container by just playing the game for free.

[OzzyInSpace]

Unfortunate. I'm beginning to question if we can ever have a game, in this space, that is truly free of P2W mechanics... why can't devs just monetize skins and the like, and call it a day?

[JohnsenJohnandre]

It's clear that the business model Arena Battleground Infinite is designed around will definitely impact the overall monetization of FPS games. I'm sure Activision is closely monitoring how this subscription model evolves. This seems like the next step in greedy monetization, moving from free-to-play models, season passes, and buying weapon skins.

I'm surprised that well-known streamers are actually taking Tencent's money and supporting this. It just goes to show that streamers play a significant role in shaping what we see in the market today.

I mean, a subscription-based "secure case" and actually paying for the ability to chat with others? Yes, I'm not kidding—paying for a "communicator" that enables you to talk to other players. Five to ten years ago, this would have never seen the light of day. Supporting this only contributes to the issues we're now seeing with free-to-play games.

[Ethern]

Just try the game for 20h-40h it's not pay to win