The newest PS Plus day-one sport launched lower than every week in the past, and it’s already struggling. FBC: Firebreak‘s reception is a far cry from what earlier day-one sport Blue Prince acquired, with the latter incomes common reward and the previous incomes… nicely, a largely destructive response.
PS Plus sport FBC: Firebreak struggling to retain gamers
Whereas we don’t have PSN and Xbox numbers, FBC: Firebreak solely managed an all-time peak of 1,992 concurrent gamers on Steam. Developer Treatment Leisure has acknowledged that “clearly, not all the things” has gone nicely for the sport, and has promised to enhance issues “beginning now.”
“We hear you loudly and clearly,” Treatment wrote, outlining an enormous checklist of enhancements that it plans to make, beginning with enhancing the first-hour expertise of FBC: Firebreak. “The sport’s first hours don’t present an important expertise because of a mix of issues,” Treatment admitted, inserting a few of the blame on lack of onboarding.
Two of the weather Treatment plans to enhance are development velocity and kit unlocks. “We hear you: the grind is just too sluggish,” the developer wrote.
Treatment beforehand promised free post-launch content material for FBC: Firebreak, however determination about the kind of DLC it’ll launch depends upon participant suggestions. Proper now, although, FBC: Firebreak has extra urgent points than DLC, together with however not restricted to attracting and retaining sufficient gamers to justify conserving servers stay.
