Arkane工作室总监称《红霞岛》首发XGP让他们“恐慌”

近日，接受外媒采访时，B社旗下Arkane工作室总监 Harvey Smith透露，《红霞岛》首发XGP让他们很震惊，如果玩家人数超出预期很多，他们会压力很大，有些“恐慌”。

Harvey Smith表示，《红霞岛》加入XGP后，还可以让更多人了解Arkane制作游戏的方式和创意价值，他希望有更多玩家能关注他们所做的事情。

《红霞岛》已确定在2023年上半年发售，有多个传闻称本作将在5月初发售。

© According to studio director Harvey Smith, the launch of Redfall on Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass subscription service is something that both “shocks” and “frightens” developers at Arkane Studios. When Redfall releases later this year, it will be the first time that an Arkane Studios game will release on Xbox Game Pass on Day 1, but all subsequent games from the studio will almost certainly also release on Day 1 of Xbox Game Pass. One Arkane game has already been published since Microsoft acquired Bethesda, in the form of the first-person shooter Deathloop. However, Microsoft honored the pre-existing agreements between Bethesda and Sony regarding Deathloop, which meant the game was a PS5 exclusive for a full year. After Deathloop’s PS5 exclusivity ended, the game wasted no time in debuting on Xbox via Game Pass. In the case of open-world co-op shooter Redfall, there are no such arrangements, so the game will debut on Xbox Game Pass the same day it launches. Smith called it “kind of shocking” and “kind of scary” due to the sheer number of people potentially playing Redfall at launch. This will lead to much more feedback than the team intended. Smith also called Redfall a “pandemic Arkane game”, pointing out that it was created primarily during covid. What this might mean for its scale or quality, if anything, is difficult to say at this point. At the moment, an official release date for Redfall has not been announced. Redfall was originally supposed to release in 2022, but the release date has been pushed back to the first half of 2023. While no release date has been announced, reliable sources have said that there has been another internal delay to the game, which means players may have to wait even longer.