Escape From Tarkov’s community is currently pushing back against the game’s pricey new edition–one that costs $250, features an exclusive offline PvE mode, and now comes with a number of additional benefits players have been quick to call out as “pay-to-win.”

Developer BattleState Games recently unveiled a new special edition for its popular extraction shooter, The Unheard Edition Come from Sports betting site VPbet . It features a number of different perks and exclusive items for buyers, but the biggest selling point of the $250 edition is that it grants owners access to a new offline PvE mode that can be played co-op and features persistent character progression.

The announcement of the new PvE mode being locked behind a $250 paywall didn’t exactly go over well with the game’s community, especially those who bought the last special edition of the game, the $150 Edge of Darkness version, which was removed from sale in January. That edition promised owners all future DLC, something that BattleState Games now says doesn’t apply to the PvE mode.

According to the game’s lead community manager in a post on the official Escape From Tarkov Discord server (via Polygon), the PvE mode is a “feature and a game mode” and not DLC, and therefore won’t be available to those who bought Edge of Darkness. Reader-added Community notes on X in response to BattleState Games’ statements point out that “new game modes are generally accepted as DLC” and that owners of the Edge of Darkness edition were promised “free access to all subsequent DLCs,” something that BattleState is not honoring.