ARC Raiders Seen as a 10-Year Game by Embark, Explains Why There’s No Roadmap
While ARC Raiders is angled as an online, live-service game, one thing we haven’t seen or heard about is the game’s roadmap, which is strange to see given we’re about a week away from release.
Apparently, Embark Studios doesn’t want to give one out, and there’s a good reason for it — and one that makes sense.
This is with the studio looking at the game as a 10-year title, which is no easy feat to pull off, though certainly doable by today’s standards.
An ARC Raiders Roadmap Is Something the Developers Aren’t Keen on Doing Right Now
In a Twitch stream at TwitchCon with Embark, ARC Raiders Design Director Virgil Watkins was asked about the game’s future post-release, and where’s the game’s roadmap?
Watkins’ answer was telling of how the studio wants to shape the game, and its based on what the community wants. Watkins shared, “I think internally, for a very long time, we refer to this (ARC Raiders) as a 10-year game. So that is the ambition we’re aiming for and that kind of dictates the type and quantity of content that we want to put into it.”
Adding to that, Watkins continued, “We are not at this stage, going to discuss roadmap details that stuff can quickly spiral into promises that can go unfulfilled if things change, but of course adding things over time like new maps, and extending questlines, and introducing new enemies, new weapons and things like that .”
“We’ll have some stuff lined up post-launch, and for a little bit after, but then it will be based on what we see out of the launch and going there after to start dropping the content that we need to,” the developer concluded.
While there’s no roadmap, I fully expect Embark to discuss the game’s post-release plans in more detail when the game launches or as we’re nearer to release. At the very least, players can expect new maps, weapons and more, which is par for the course for most live service offerings.
ARC Raiders will be released on Oct. 31 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC, and if the reception to the Server Slam weekend is any indication, the game is going to be the next big thing in shooters.
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They absolutely have a roadmap. They’re not going to be able to survive or produce enough quality content via ad-hoc development. They’re just not sharing the roadmap with the unwashed masses. This is completely normal and how software and game development works…
& what is it? The same trash bs? The roadmap is unveiling the other maps which isn’t going to carry a game in the long run, they’re going to need more content not to mention they need to actually fix everything. Game is horrible & I’m somebody that was looking forward to it but I gotta keep it real feel me.
10 years & that’s all they got to show for it? Boring so called missions, insane tank bots that kill you before the players do. Toxic teammates who rather go solo but people yet choose to “fill squad” instead of go solo. Guns are trash, cosmetics are trash, map size is trash, it being 3rd person is trash & I’m someone who prefers 3rd person. Yes they have other maps but none of them look big, especially the one we had during the play test. Apex has like 4 maps & all of them are big, Apex has great weapons, I’m sick of BR’s but I’m not gonna lie just cause I can’t stand them anymore, Apex guns are fire even with iron sights.
10 year plan is just aspirational. Anthem had a 10 year plan. So did Starfield. At this point it’s just marketing to hype up a launch. They don’t want to reveal any plans because they’re not confident if their game will have any staying power. This was originally planned to be a free PvE game before the pivoted to a $40 PvPvE game. That’s a huge red flag for me as it should be any time a developer says they struggled to “find the fun” in their project.
I found the game fun during the server slam but at the price point they’re asking I seriously doubt the game will catch on with the masses.
There’s no way they’re going to get 10 years let alone 10 months out of this game. It brings absolutely nothing new to the genre. This is another flash in the pan that’s ignoring 50% of its user base in order to cater to an oversaturated market. You’re not going to take tarkov players, you’re not going to take rust players. What you will get is part of their community to halfway commit to something new as a distraction for a time. The gameplay loop is horrible and short, and you’ve already got every extraction shooter drawback and exploit being used already and the game isn’t even out. I hope it does well, but by this time next year nobody will even remember this.
Lots of flogs commenting. This game is going to be a hit. Don’t be made about it. Just go back to Animal Crossing or whatever it is you were playing before this. The negativity you possess would make you all great CS2 players