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The newfound popularity of PC game Escape From Tarkov _ brings with it controversy as a 2016 interview was discovered showing one of the developers stating that women can't handle the stress of war. _Escape From Tarkov first began being developed in 2012 by Russian studio Battlestate Games. The game is an action role-playing simulator that was first launched in alpha on August 4th, 2016. As of July 28th of 2017 the game has been in closed beta to anyone who purchases the ti

 
Even though the game is now a few years into it's closed beta, Escape from Tarkov has experienced a rise in popularity recently due to some popular streamers on Twitch showing off their crazy John Wick -like skills . The Russian-made action RPG has players trying to escape the titular city by working for private military companies, each with their own different age
 
Whether or not that--along with the company's reasoning for denying female PCs--is actually true has been called into question, however, given that Escape From Tarkov does actually have women in it. They're present as NPCs, and given that the game's main factions are military-based, it would stand to reason that women might be involved in that. Plus, it's not as though women haven't been prominent members of the Russian military for decades, and even though the game's Russia is technically fictional, its "lore" would still reflect that of the real Russia. Then there's the fact that Battlestate isn't the first company to say that adding female characters is too much work; Ubisoft famously said the same in 2014 when discussing Assassin's Creed: Unity 's online mode and Far Cry 4 's director said it again later that y

 
The company made its announcement alongside a statement addressing those comments, tweeting that they had been said by one employee and "didn’t reflect the official position of the company." Despite its decision to exclude female player characters in Escape From Tarkov , Battlestate also wrote that it "always respected women in wars and military wom
 
While the game provides plenty of action, role-playing, and loot drops , some players are worried that once the full game comes out it will be riddled with microtransactions, like so many other modern shooters. Coming as a surprise to many, Escape from Tarkov 's project lead Nikita Buyanov has said this will not be the c

 
According to an interview from 2016, Buyanov has said Escape from Tarkov will be "a traditional, full-purchase," so players won't have to worry about any new content, equipment, or updates being hidden behind a paywall. A pretty surprising move considering this is the same developer that just a year ago took down YouTube videos en masse for being negative about Escape from Tarkov . So, how much will this full-purchase cost? There are currently a few editions available for pre-order on the official website. The Standard Edition costs $44.99 and comes with a few starter it

 
This is not the first time that Battlestate games has faced controversy for Escape From Tarkov . In 2018 the company began filing copyright infringement claims against a YouTuber for posting videos featuring its game. The YouTuber in question, Eroktic, had 47 different videos removed by YouTube because two of those E videos were alleged to contain misinformation after Eroktic stated that Battlestate had a data breach. Players have since accused Battlestate Games of abusing the system in order to remove videos that portray them in a negative light. For their part the studio claims to be innocent and that they were trying to stop Eroktic from slandering their game and comp

 
The past decade in gaming has seen this problem arise in many different game development studios, excluding female player characters due to the projected workload it would add, and this isn't even Battlestate's first time running into a controversy over it. Comments from the company made in 2016, about Escape From Tarkov 's vision of war being too stressful for women and only a place for "hardened men," are now also getting negative attent

 
Over Twitter, Battlestate recently responded to queries over whether or not Escape From Tarkov would get female PCs with a definitive no, writing that playable female characters wouldn't fit the "game lore," and adding that the "huge amount of work" it would take to add in extra animations and gear fitting eliminates the possibility. The game has been growing in popularity recently due to Twitch streamers broadcasting their gameplay, and the heavier spotlight led to Battlestate's female character comments from 2016 being uneart