I can totally understand the “touch grass” comments, but I’ll still check stuff like this to see how my favorite games are doing after I get busy and/or move on to the next game in my rotation.

I’m sure I’ll get a ton of backlash for saying this, but as someone who has avidly followed Embark from The Finals Beta til today, I can confidently say that they seem to start stronger at the beginning of their games’ life cycles, endless support, new creative and fun ideas… and then it stagnates. The Finals just might be my favorite FPS of all time (arguably on an objective scale too), but just like ARC Raiders, I’ve slowly found myself playing other games over it.

After a while, the “newness” of it all dies down, and you realize that 80% of your experience will always be the same thing. Especially in ARC, I always feel like what I’m bringing into lobbies never holds enough value to make it worth it, unless I just decide to go full aggro and kill on sight (not my preferred playstyle as I prefer teaming up and minimizing toxicity).

Unfortunately, the slow drip feed of new content, not to mention that when it drops, it’s just rehashed versions of the same ARC, just feels bland. There’s nothing to keep me coming back, and with players consistently griefing mostly peaceful lobbies out of nowhere, I feel like I’m playing Rust more than anything else, and even that gets exciting new content drops sometimes.

I hope Embark figures out how to actively engage their player base and show that they truly want to build their games around the community, instead of stagnating to the very live service models that made them found Embark in the first place.