The First Descendant has loved a giant launch, nevertheless it’s additionally been marred by quite a few points that developer Nexon has continued to apologize and supply compensation for.
Since the free-to-play co-op targeted looter shooter launched a protracted listing of points has emerged, together with frame-rate issues, the failure to ship on promised gadgets equivalent to Twitch drops, and for some gamers, the failure to ship gadgets they’ve paid real-world cash for.
The latter problem revolves round an issue the place clients have but to obtain gadgets after they’ve purchased the identical merchandise a number of occasions by way 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 might be purchased with the premium in-game foreign money that’s itself purchased with real-world cash), individually “to keep away from any inconvenience.”
For those that purchased gadgets from July 2-4 and have but to obtain them, these purchases will probably be canceled, Nexon warned. “The identical measures will probably 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 are working diligently to repair the difficulty as quickly as attainable to reduce inconvenience.”
Meanwhile, producer Lee Beom-jun printed a developer chat to YouTube during which he thanked and apologized to gamers. In the video, the Nexon developer promised a hotfix that may optimize efficiency of the PlayStation 5 model (The First Descendant runs notably poorly on PS5). There’s work on these lacking Twitch drop rewards, in addition to a promise for gun sound enhancements and crash fixes.
Interestingly, Lee Beom-jun supplied an evidence of kinds 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 of many main complaints amid the sport’s ‘combined’ Steam consumer evaluations ranking, is supposedly required as a result of Nexon makes use of it to trace what gamers are doing in The First Descendant with a view to enhance it. Lee Beom-jun insisted Nexon doesn’t use gamers’ private information, reasonably the nicknames they select.
There is not any rationalization for The First Descendant’s extremely aggressive monetization, nonetheless, which some gamers have described as “microtransaction hell.”
Despite 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 high 5 most-played video games. Sony and Microsoft don’t share participant numbers. Check out IGN’s The First Descendant evaluate in progress to search out out what we consider the sport thus far.
Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can attain Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.
