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Embark Studios is very intentional about the cosmetics it adds to its multiplayer shooter Arc Raiders, with the developer’s CEO saying that any skins introduced to the game have to fit within its highly curated universe.
In a February 6 IGN interview, Embark Studios CEO Patrick Söderlund explained that while games like Embark’s previous game, The Finals, and Fortnite can add whatever character cosmetics they want, Arc Raiders is a bit different. The difference, for Söderlund, is the game’s lore and world, which he described as being “more curated.” This curation is what prevents Arc Raiders from putting, say, The Grinch or Sonic the Hedgehog in the game.
“First and foremost, we want to make sure that everything fits the fiction of Arc Raiders, and that it’s something that sits well within the Arc Raiders universe,” Söderlund said. “I mean, there are other games, very successful games out there–The Finals being one of them–in which the IP is designed so it basically happens to be very elastic. You can do whatever the hell you want, and people are like, ‘That makes sense. It’s completely plausible.’ I can be a pink banana, and you can be whatever, and everyone’s like, ‘That makes sense.
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