Arc Raiders is in the awkward position of being a popular PvPvE game with some players who despise PvP but, you know, at least developer Embark Studios is used to it. Production director Caio Braga shares during a Game Developer Conference 2026 panel attended by GamesRadar+ that Arc Raiders’ PvP has been controversial from the second it was conceived.
Braga says during his talk – candidly titled “WHEN YOUR AAA GAME ISN’T FUN” – that Embark decided on “a big reset” at one point during Arc Raiders’ development and added PvP. Unfortunately for him, “the very first feedback was, players didn’t like it. They didn’t like the PvP. And there was substantial negative PvP sentiment.”
“Should we even have done this? Should we have added PvP to this?” Braga remembers existential devs wondering. But Embark’s “data people” helpfully revealed that it wasn’t PvP itself that was the problem – though, some current players might say otherwise. It was a matter of comfort.
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