Dear valued users. This announcement is to notify everyone of an important upcoming change to Metro Conflict: The Origin’s game service.
[Background]
Metro Conflict: The Origin (MCTO) started its Early Access approximately 2 weeks ago. We thank everyone who had supported us through Early Access as well as those who joined us via Free Trial version.
We were successful in receiving various feedback (both positive & negative) through all of our users for the past couple of weeks. Such feedback, ideas, community engagements have all proven vital in our steps in further developing Metro Conflict: The Origin into ‘the game’ our users would love to play.
[Focus]
MCTO’s core identity is and will always be an online multiplayer FPS. With this said, one of the most important issues in our game would be directly comparable to the number of concurrent users within the game server. During the first several days of Early Access launch, we’ve experience significant delays in matchmaking due to low volume of users with respect to our regional servers. In hopes that we would resolve this matter for our Early Access users, MC Team decided to open up a Free version of MCTO for the public to access (Demo/Trial version). We were successful in saturating our Asia server with enough user base for match making to be quick and effective for all of our users but, unfortunately, we are still experiencing user traffic problems in NA/EU/SA servers alike. Both MC Team and our valued community members share the same viewpoint with regard to wanting an increased gamer population for all respective regional servers so that everyone could enjoy playing MCTO in their own server(s).
While the ‘Demo/Trial version’ option is indeed available on our Steam Store page, it is apparent that many either have the wrong idea as to how our Demo/Trial version works, or simply don’t know about it due to the lack of visibility. Therefore, we have decided to resolve this issue by transitioning our Steam Store page from Early Access to the Free access version in order to promote users to come and join us without having to feel that they must pay to play MCTO.
[Action]
MC Team have decided on the following;
- Early Access (Full Character package) users will retain their rights as EA participants (refer to prior post regarding EA participation perks) and continue to possess all game progress without the concern of data wipe.
- Early Access is scheduled to be discontinued once our Steam Store page is modified to display our 3-character basic Free to Play package as the main download option.
- Metro Conflict: The Origin will be visible to everyone as a Free to Play game through Steam platform with an optional ‘Full Agents Package’ DLC.
- ‘Full Agents Package’ is a separate downloadable content which will grant Free Access users with 9 additional Agents, character oriented weapons, and 440,000 in-game gold for $19.99.
MC Team has always disclosed our belief in communicating with our community members. We would like to continue listening to our community and work together with everyone to mature Metro Conflict: The Origin.
As we move forward, we would like to applaud our Early Access users for being the heart of our community and we continue to ask for your support. In order for us to say “thank you”, we’ll be providing exclusive skins for all Early Access participants which will not be available at any time to anyone other than our Early Access users.
Early Access Skins:
Chris ‘KillerRoseSkin’ & “SAIGA-12 Zombie Buster’
Above skins will become tradable within the Steam Community Market in the future.
Metro Conflict: The Origin’s transition to Free to Play details will be announced through a separate posting once schedule is confirmed. Sincere appreciation from the MC Team towards all of our valued users! Thank you.
MC Team.