Vi kunne kort før weekenden fortælle at H1Z1 har massive problemer på Steam Early Access, og at det havde resulteret i en del utilfredse gamere.
Især de såkaldte airdrops, der leverer ammunition og våben til spillere i H1Z1 er blevet kritiseret for at være pay-to-win. Det svarer SOE-bossen, John Smedley, nu på, og kommenterer at folk kan få deres penge tilbage ved at skrive til Sony.
"If you feel like the airdrops are an issue for you, you may immediately request a refund to [email protected]," Smedley said on Reddit. "This offer applies 'til Monday and it applies only to people that have purchased the game as of 10:30am Pacific today, 16th January 2015."
Kritikken lyder på at Smedley tidligere havde udtalt, at man ikke skulle købe våben i spillet, en udtalelse han siden har trukket tilbage. Der loves samtidig ændringer i mekanikken ganske snart.
På Reddit er følgende blevet skrevet af Smedley:
"We've been showing it [the airdrops] clearly in all of the streams we have been doing. I made a point of personally doing it during last Friday's streams. We want them to be server events... so we make sure the whole server knows they're coming and I've personally been killed many times after I paid for them myself. So I fundamentally disagree with the argument. In terms of us not being honest about it - untrue to an extreme. Quoting an eight month old Reddit post after numerous streams and interviews where we've been quite public AND putting it front and center in our ‘What to expect document' which was right on the purchase page just makes this blatantly unfair IMO.
So if you think it's P2W don't buy it. Don't play it. But I have to say wait until you've personally tried them before making the call. We included airdrops in both the $20 and the $40 versions just so you could see for yourselves."
"But to clear up the misconceptions - 1) You cannot call in airdrops until the servers are one quarter full. 2) You can't call in airdrops without generating a ton of zombie heat. 3) the airdrops are random in what they deliver. 4) you are not guaranteed to get a single thing out of the airdrop you called in. You could die trying and you're out the money. 5) We fly the plane in very slowly and loudly.. we also stream green smoke from it you can see from very far away. This is all I'm going to say on the subject. We've been straight about it. We've called attention to it publicly and it's something we've decided we want in the game. It makes it more fun. It can shake things up. Please don't judge based on knee jerk reactions. Try it. Or watch more streams with people doing it."
"Now with all that being said - we're going to be making some big changes to them in the next day or so: 1) Dramatically widening the radius they come in - it's too small from what we're observing. 2) Making sure the chance for guns is a much lower chance so they are much more rare. 3) Upping the minimum number of people on a server to even allow air drops. It's set at 50 right now and we're going to at least double it. We are serious about these being server events and contested. 4) Making the plane fly even slower."
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