Players are upset at AEW: Fight Forever charging $7 for its new Arcade mode

AEW: Fight Forever gets a new gameplay mode today, but some players are upset that they have to pay for it.

The game’s new Beat the Elite mode is an Arcade mode in all but name, as it has players taking on 10 randomly selected wrestlers, one at a time, before facing off against a final boss.

That boss will be someone from AEW’s faction The Elite – Kenny Omega, Matt Jackson, Nick Jackson or Adam ‘Hangman’ Page.

However, while some players are welcoming the addition of new content, others are complaining that the new mode costs $6.99 / £5.79, instead of being made available as a free update.

“I’ve been advocating for a mode like this to be in the game,” said Twitter user @standardeel, “but it’s just too late, and you have to pay for it, that’s just insane.”

“This feels like something that should’ve been included in the base game,” added user @B10Rell, while user @Deuce_1982 said: “Bought day one. Hoped it would improve. It didn’t. Now you’re charging for this nonsense. Done.”

“So it’s just a series of single matches,” user @BillSavage_ wrote, sarcastically adding: “I can see why this took so long to get this mode out.” User @PigeonBagarreur added: “Imagine paying for this when you can do it in Mortal Kombat for free.”

Many comments on YouTube are similarly negative, with user Rnerdy197 saying: “I understand paying for new wrestlers but paying for new modes isn’t how it’s supposed to work, that should just be a new free update.”

The game continues to struggle to maintain an active player base: according to SteamDB, the PC version has only seen more than 50 concurrent players once in the past three months, despite getting a  30-player mode in August.