The developers of the first person shooting game "Arizona Sunshine" have had a pretty rough day after several Steam users expressed outrage over in-game content that is exclusive to specific Intel CPUs. Vertigo Games quickly reversed their decision to suppress the rage of angry gamers all across the world.
"Arizona Sunshine" is a VR post-apocalyptic zombie FPS (first person shooter), which launched on December 8 at a retail price of $39.99 that is the same price for AAA blockbusters and other indie releases. The controversy started when users posted in the game's forums on Steam asking why they weren't able to access the single player Horde mode on both of their computers.
According to one user, the PC that had Horde mode sported an Intel i7-6700 CPU while the other computer only had a 4th generation Intel i5 processor. Vertigo Games later confirmed that the single player Horde mode and apocalyptic mode (the campaign's highest level of difficulty) was only available for computers that run on 5th generation i5, i6, and i7 processors.
This development is both surprising and not well received based on the reactions of several users who have 4th generation i5 computers that can run the game with no problems whatsoever. Computers that have AMD CPUs were also affected by this development, even users who have i7 CPUs purchased between 2013 and 2014 are also getting shafted.
Many of the outraged users demanded refunds and replied with vitriolic statements expressing their disgust on the controversial announcement. Not wanting to let the fans' anger boil over, Vertigo Games issued a statement saying how important the community is to them and that they would make all of the exclusive game modes available for all players. The patch has since been released to the public.
In an interview with Polygon, Richard Stitselaar of Vertigo Games described the whole situation as an "interesting night." According to Stitselaar, the idea of adding single player Horde mode and apocalyptic mode only came up after they had signed a deal with Intel. He later added that these two deals were meant to be bonus features and they were not intending to make them a part of the deal they were trying to present. "You can't even find it on any of the marketing and promotional pages we pushed out", he said.
They even made sure to let users know of this bonus content by putting an announcement on the configuration screen for users who have i7 CPU's. The original plan was for Intel to help promote the game as a way of showing what i7 processors were capable of. So yes, the partnership with Intel was meant to be promotional. Unfortunately, it did not produce the response they were hoping for.
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