Last week, TopWare Interactive issued a new update for Two Worlds II that introduced micro-transactions to it. Naturally, this move frustrated some PC gamers and TopWare Interactive has issued an official statement about this.
According to the statement, the team implemented some features from the Xbox 360 version to the Steam Version. The Xbox 360 version featured some in-game purchases and these very same purchased were introduced to the Steam version.
“With the 2.0 update for Two Worlds 2, we implemented some features from the Xbox 360 version to the Steam Version. At the time the game came out in 2010, Steam did not support features like achievements or in-game purchases, but Xbox Live did.
For the DLC Call of the Tenebrae [the expansion], we made several improvements to the game engine and added features like achievements and a marketplace we took from the Xbox version. We decided to release this improvement as a free update to all owners of the main game, independent of if they have purchased the new DLC (which requires the engine update) or not.
With the same update, the DRM for Two Worlds 2 has been removed as well as the developer console, but after some users asked us to put it back in, we re-activated the developer console for single-player. For multiplayer the console was never available, to avoid cheating.”
As always, the in-game purchases are optional and all items which are available for purchase can also be found in inside the game.
“From our seven years of experience with the Xbox 360 version we know that there are many users who like the possibility of purchasing items like healing potions and mana potions. Those who do not like it do not need to purchase anything – same as it is since release in 2010 for all Xbox 360 users.”
TopWare Interactive concluded that Two Worlds 2 is not Free2Play or Pay2Play, and that this latest version of the game has not been ‘butchered’ in favour of these newly introduced – at least to the Steam version – micro-transactions.
“Two Worlds 2 is not Free2Play or Pay2Play. Everyone who owns the game has the full product with all features and the full gaming experience. The only special items not in the standard version can be found in the digital deluxe content, in some special editions or in the season pass. But these items are not available as in-game purchases.”
Thanks Eurogamer
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This developer lacks total self-awareness.
I had self-awareness once. That was around the same time I started suffering from depression.
That’s what they always say.
When you truly believe that your game is a masterpiece lol
tbh.. the game has one of the best soundtracks I’ve ever heard.
“From our seven years of experience with the Xbox 360 version we know that there are many users who like the possibility of purchasing items like healing potions and mana potions.”
How do you know what users like when no one liked your game to begin with?
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what the f**K??
this game is 10 year old and was largely a medicore RPG
and AFTER 10 years they decide to add microtransactions!?
waow.. i’m baffled, flabbergasted on this nonsensical decision
I think they’re preparing a remaster of it, with some new free content added to it.
trash game trash devs
The two people that still play this game are pissed!
> Implying PC players don’t buy into Micro transactions.
What a sad state this industry is now in.
Didn’t they disable the dev console as well so u cant use cheats?
I don’t get this. She says that Dishonored was bad because you are playing as a male protagonist ? WTF is this ?
That’s modern feminism for you.
an average feminist.
she doesn’t even play games, she merely steals 5 mintues of footage and nitpicks anything about them
the fact that harvey invited this pretentious c u n t to an interview pretty much tells me everything i need to know about his “vision” for the game’s expansion
i’m so disappointed in Arkane, they were my favs! but they too fell… to the darkness of political correctness…
wth, in DH2 you can play as a female character. She shouldn’t be allowed at all to influence how games are made, she’s like pure cancer to the industry.
“the DRM for Two Worlds 2 has been removed as well as the developer
console, but after some users asked us to put it back in, we
re-activated the developer console for single-player.”
Amazing.
so its not play for free, but pay 2 play…its pay 2 win. i get it.
funnily enough it was all in the game
console commands, they were even active for the Xbox version until now
so what did this clueless developer do? removed console commands and added microtransactions
If Anita will brainwash my favourite Arkane Studios, i’m done with this cr*p industry!
who still plays this game?????