The Marauders battle pass won't be "anti-lore" if the Escape From Tarkov-style multiplayer game gets that form of monetisation at all. The team acknowledges that battle passes "are the only thing that really work nowadays" but seemingly isn't going down the same route as Fortnite or Halo Infinite.
Marauders is a new PvPvE space game that was crowdfunded back in 2020. It is now set to release in Steam Early Access sometime this year. PCGamesN spoke with developer Small Impact Games and its lead designer Cameron Small told us what players can expect in terms of monetisation - and how the team doesn't want a bunch of XP gates that'll put off players.
"Battle passes are the only thing that really work nowadays to keep concurrents going," Cameron tells us while acknowledging this is likely a controversial opinion. "However, I'm not happy with its connotations of 'anti-lore' as battle passes can fit into a story. We're not a story-based game but we have that Day-Z [feel], we want people to get lost and create their own."
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