STEAM everything early access??? :-/

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problem is most will sit and rage shortly after buying as they dont know the process of making a game. ala dayz/rust and every other alpha beta early access.
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Most games are developed much better then others, Rust/Dead Linger and Project Zomboid are pretty much moving along real nice, other games in development are not. So it is hard to gauge who will rage as some dev teams are better then others at fixing bugs/adding the content.
 
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I like that pc gamers have this option. Perhaps Steam could implement an early access filter though.
 
To be honest EA have been selling games as full release and their still worse than many Early Access games.

If you dont like it dont buy it?
 
Slam said:
I like that pc gamers have this option. Perhaps Steam could implement an early access filter though.
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Yes, agreed. I personally want some form of warning as well included in the Early Access and learn more option. It's too 'sales' like and doesn't inform a consumer with no knowledge of the risks as well as the benefits.
 
I currently have two early access games, and I'm very happy with one.....Assetto Corsa. the other one is a very early game at the moment, Intersteller Marines and looks very promising.

The thing with Early Access games is that you are knowingly/willingly buying a game that is not finished, and should know that it might not be worth it...its that chance you take.....
There would've been no way I would just buy a game jus' because........ a lot of searching around getting to know what kind of game it is, should be done ...
 
Not sure what your issue is. If you don't want the alpha/beat, then don't buy it. Sorted.

Just wait for the full release.

Of course why you'd want to take the option away for those who do like it is questionable as well.
 
I'm in two minds about it. I love being a part of the community on the early access stuff but at the same time the amount of it available these days seems to be at the detriment of actual completed games. Also, rarely are they any cheaper than finished games so you do get a lot less for your pound, at least initially.

I'm old enough to remember Alpha/Beta testing a game was considered a service from developers/publishers, and as long as you took the time to report bugs etc. was usually rewarded, often with a free copy of the game. Come 2000 it started becoming something people queued up to do do and so it was promoted as a privilege for early access. Now they've managed to complete the "Jedi mind trick" and have suckers paying to test the game for them or pay in advance for a game based on some loose promises that it'll be great in two years time, honest.. Seriously, people need to get a grip... We're letting publishers get away with, well, not quite murder but certainly treating gamers as naive
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Well, 20 years ago games just cost time to complete, not many millions of pounds. I understand your point but if paying early access means that some very promising games make it to gold which in some cases would never have been picked up by a major publisher (like Next Car Game!) then I'm all for that. The putting your faith in the devs, though, that does concern me slightly because the games you've paid for could still turn out to be rubbish. Or unfinish. Or both.

SO yes, two minds lol.
 
2005-2010 Developers/publishers over estimated how much content to include in games & underestimated how much it would cost which is why IMO the games from that era more often than not had a lot of content & most of the bugs were squashed. They effectively as an industry gave the consumer more than they wanted to :rolleyes: Some of the dev budgets were so OTT they had no chance of ever recovering it :eek:

Since late 2010 it seems to me games have gradually included more DLC (cut from the main game quite cynically :rolleyes:) & a lot more shoddy bugs which should have been removed before the game was allowed to be sold.

Right now its got so bad with all this early access junk, steam greenlight, & or shovelware the industry is in danger of turning people away from buying games until the GOTY A.K.A all the content you should have got anyway at launch for the same price edition is released :eek:
 
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