Arc Raiders studio contacted by crime scientist "intrigued by how players are interacting," dev says only 30% of players focus on PvP: "It kind of blew the whole extraction shooter open"

Arc Raiders player holding a gun in red light.

Arc Raiders developer Embark Studios was once again contacted by a social scientist struck by the petri dish of human behavior presented by the game – this time, a criminologist who, not unlike the devs themselves, was interested in the surprising number of friendly players who've taken a vow of peace in a genre notorious for cutthroat competition.

As The Guardian reports, Arc Raiders executive producer Aleksander Grøndal recently heard from a criminologist – someone who studies crime and/or criminals under a branch of sociology – who was "really intrigued by how players are interacting with each other".