

“We’ve deliberately designed Dead Space 3 to allow players to harvest resources by playing through the game. We encourage players to explore the game and discover the areas where resources respawn for free,” Talens says. We have no plans to issue a patch to change this aspect of the game. “The resource-earning mechanic in Dead Space 3 is not a glitch.


As a result, the exploit will continue to work for now. In response, EA has insisted that the exploit was “deliberately designed” all along, and that players may continue to farm resources in this way.ĮA representative Jino Talens stated that Dead Space 3‘s microtransactions were designed to be optional for players who want to craft their weapons straight away, and weren’t intended to be a necessary part of game progression. It wasn’t long before an exploit was discovered to infinitely gather resources and build up a pile of materials in the process. One of the features in Dead Space 3 is crafting weapons using resources collected in-game, with the added option of purchasing additional resources with real world dollars. An endlessly respawning resource was “deliberately designed” for harvesting all along.
