There’s been a lot of talk going on about Crackdown 3, and not a lot of it has been good, the game has been in development for a very long time, and has been delayed numerous times. Because of this, the game is set to arrive in February of 2019, instead of the 2018 like the team promised multiple times. Many are starting to wonder if the game is even going to be any good when it releases.
However, there is one piece of good news that people can appreciate, for the game will not have any Microtransactions.
“We’re not committing to [any post-launch plans] right now, we’re still experimenting with what’s best to do,” said Microsoft’s Joseph Staten in an interview with Windows Central. “We’re looking at what people find fun, tweaking the balance and so on. We also look at the long-term hooks. We know that we didn’t want to go with microtransactions. We’re not going with the concept of loot crates. There will be things you can unlock, increasingly cool things. Whether they’re rank based, or based on the number of matches, we’re honestly still playing with it. We’ve made hundreds of things to unlock. We can take that to many places.”
Oh, and as for those delays? Yeah, they have an explanation for that too:
[We] knew going in when we started Crackdown 3 that this technological heavy lift — Azure powered, multiplayer fully destructible environments — was going to take a lot of investment, a lot of time to get right. To a large extent, the project schedule has largely been driven by that technology investment. We really have landed this fully destructible Azure-powered experience. It’s really unlike any game that we’ve tried to design before, where you can blow up all of the geometry.
We’ll have to see if they live up to the promise when the game releases next year.
