The price of that went down by the time Hunting Season 2 rolled out, but the damage to the game’s image had already been done.
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Since the game is so cooperative, it really is best played with friends, so asking four friends to each pay $100 to be able to have the full experience is a tough sell. That first wave of content felt like it should have just been included in a game, so charging an additional $40 to include it all, bringing the total up to $100, seemed a bit too much. While having this much post-launch content is always a great thing, the pricing structure of it was distinctly not. About six months later there was another Hunting Season pass with an additional four hunters and a monster for another $25. The game was a full price $60 title with 12 hunters and three monsters, but also had a $25 Hunting Season pass that would include four more hunters and a $15 DLC that provided an additional monster. Right before release, Evolve showed its DLC strategy, and it made fans feel like content was being held back from them for no reason. What is it about Evolve that didn’t work out?
Dead by Daylight came out only about a year and a half after Evolve, and that game is still receiving updates while Evolve’s servers have been shut down for over a year. Dead by Daylight, Friday the 13th and the upcoming Predator: Hunting Grounds are all games where one player is a powerful evil creature while the others are trying to cooperate against them. Now, five years later, Evolve has been shut down for over a year, but other games have picked up the 4v1 asymmetrical multiplayer concept and run with it. While there were some outlets that gave it high scores ( BD gave it a 9/10 at the time ), but most scores ranged between six and eight. However, upon release, the reception was a bit more tepid. In the year leading up to its release, it won awards at industry events, including E3 and Gamescom.
Having four players team up and hunt another playing as a giant monster was a novel extension of the co-op multiplayer they perfected in their signature game. When it was first introduced by Turtle Rock Studios, the creators of the much-loved Left 4 Deadseries, everyone was impressed with its new take on the multiplayer shooter. Evolve is a game with a very strange critical history.
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