For free games released on Steam, developers always know how to “suck the blood” of players.
Besides selling rare skins and costumes in the store, now a popular method used by most distributors is selling early access rights. Specifically, by spending some money, gamers will have an advantage over other players when they can experience the game about 3 days in advance, along with some bonus items that can only be bought with money. .
Vigor – a new free shooting game released on Steam also followed a similar path but surprisingly, thanks to that, it is currently receiving a rain of criticism from players.
After ending early access and entering the full experience, this game received countless negative reviews. Specifically, only 36% of comments from Steam users are positive, the rest are all criticism and criticism for Vigor. Some users reported bugs, others said the game was full of bots with very few real players. But most of it has to do with the paid Reinforcements Pack DLC , which players must purchase to be able to log into the early access version of Vigor.
Accordingly, everyone who purchased this DLC realized that when the game officially launched, everything they had was deleted. Items purchased during the early experience, any currency they earned and achievements, everything is gone. This caused a lot of surprise when there was only a small announcement from the publisher that there would be a deletion when the game officially launched, but no one thought things would go this far. Paying in advance for a free game, then everything almost disappears leaving only a few unimportant items remaining – that's the common situation of many Vigor gamers.
Currently, the wave of criticism for this game is still rising on Steam, thereby bringing it down to a “Mostly Negative” rating on this platform. There is still no sign that the situation will subside and certainly, Vigor's developers will have headaches for a long time.