>see interesting game
>[early access]
JUST FINISH YOUR FRICKING GAME AHHHHHHHH
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>see interesting game
>[early access]
JUST FINISH YOUR FRICKING GAME AHHHHHHHH
It's All Fucked Shirt $22.14 |
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All games post covid are early access games
At least early access games are honest about it, unlike the rest of the industry.
this. It's your fault if you get impatient and willingly purchase an unfinished product that they tell you upfront is unfinished.
all the early access games I played so far (Phasmophobia, Valheim, Barotrauma) had more content and less glitches than AAA games
Never thought about it that way.
at this point 80% of my wishlist are early access
every time i see anything interesting its early access
The latest cod
Jesus
I wouldn't even post my game on Steam unless it was complete. Indie devs especially seem to fall into this trap, and then you just have this game on steam that's in perpetual development and it looks very unprofessional.
I tend to not buy or download games with the "Early Access" shame banner on their steam page.
Yep. I agree 100%. And yes I am replying to my own post, but I agree with it very strongly, so I'm not technically lying.
Why do you space you sentences like that? It makes your post more difficult to read.
You are making yourself look foolish though. Not by outing your post as your own, but by overemphasizing the point it reads as something ridiculous, even though it's only common sense.
That said, not everyone has that option. Some people need more funds, and so they try to display what they are working towards.
It's free advertising if you do it correctly, and it's very upsetting if you mislead your audience or try to scam money Etc.
It adds dramatic effect for my last statement if I space it at the bottom of the post.
Never thought about it that way.
But why finish when they can retail it and make money on early access and then if the game actually becomes successful they get to release the completed game again down the line but as an Ultimate or GOTY edition for double the price even though its actually just the base promise finally releasing.
>Lunacid just got an update
Neat.
>friends bed you to buy game to play with them
>refuse becuase it's early access say I don't play unfinished games.
>fiends are like come on it's mostly finished though, what the difference.
>still refuse
>they buy me the game
>whatever, I guess i'll play since I didn't buy it.
>play out game and drop it after a few months
>games actually gets a full release
>Ask friends if they want to play now that the game is finished
>nah, I'm done with that. Let's play this new game
>it's another game in early access
Why are people so frickin stupid. I legit have friends who play and PAY for these early access pieces of shit.
>friends bed you to buy game to play with them
a-anon?
>he doesn't bed his friends when all other means of convincing fail
>friends bed you to buy game
hot
>fiends are like come on it's mostly finished
yeah sounds like something a fiend would say
whoops meant for
>at least 5-6 games I am interested in are early access
>early access
>it's choke-full of stuff
what game does this?
>choke-full
valheim, satisfactory
last time I played it was empty as frick
Cogmind.
However, it is basically a finished game already. The dev just has an autistic principle of not declaring the game finished until he is not going to update it again.
>$20
off to the wishlist
Universim
Making games takes time and money, man.
Yeah. At the same time, respecting your customer goes a long way. Charging them for an incomplete and/or shitty product can't be excused by "making the product takes time and money." I mean it can, but that's gay so don't do that.
Nobody is forcing you to buy the game that's clearly labeled as a work in progress. You are being offered a chance to purchase a functional build and have that purchase carry over to the final product, usually at a lower cost too. There's no 'disrespect' here.
>t. indie "developer" hack
All you are doing is helping to lower the standard of quality across the industry. You are complicit. Lazy frick.
Nice non-arguments, kiddos.
>a minute apart
Really makes you think
>excuses excuses excuses
Finish the fricking game already
bait
bloody bitcxh bastard finish your games sir
7 Day to Die and "Vintage Story" are two exceptions to this rule in my book, but sure.
I'm not going to buy something unfinished, generally speaking.
Mini Healer will have been in development for 3 years in a few months. Jesus fricking christ.
>Mini Healer
the one early access game I don't regret picking up
"game"
>this shit has been in EA for 6 fricking years now
>in the meanwhile the devs have started working on TWO new games and a remake of their first game
I really want this to release because the original was so incredibly unique, but I doubt it's ever gonna happen.
All early access games I've bought have been pretty good. Maybe stop having shit taste. Okay Quake Champions was kinda bad but frick that was more like open beta thing and Bethesda just called it early access.
I've bought exactly 3 early access games and I regret all of them.
If they are good, devs take forever to finish it, so by the time they are done adding shit I'm already jaded of the game.
On the other hand, they may never get good, and I get fricked in the ass.
Thank god for steam refunds hey
Problem?
>buy a "finished" game
>have a Day 1 Patch that is half the size of the game already
Yeah, only Early Access games are unfinished.
>have to download 100GB patch to fix two archived ini files
T-thanks...
Just buy the ones that are cheap and/or have enough content on launch to be worth your while.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/323670/Super_Indie_Karts/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/284160/BeamNGdrive/
>both in early access since 2015
I just want to play a finished game. I told myself I would never buy an early access game. I'm going to be waiting on these until I fricking die.
One of them is overwhelmingly positive with over 100k reviews and you're just going to sit in your corner sulking because it has an EA banner? Autism.
Steam reviews are garbage
Ganker tryhard
he's right though
it's all dumb meme shit or ascii art because they're fishing for user rewards
I'm right though
Dude you're on Ganker.
I have plenty of other games to play. I just like to try to be an anon of my word. I said that I wouldn't knowingly buy an early access game so I won't. Pretty simple man. I'm not actually sulking or anything.
Is your promise here making you happier or more well off? There is something to be said for standing to your principles, but if it doesn't bring you any benefit then why keep to it?
I could tell myself that I should hit myself in the nuts every time I hear the tune of yankee doodle dandy, if I kept to my word that wouldn't exactly be of much use.
Like, in these two cases - what about them being in Early Access do you think will specifically ruin the experience for you?
>Is your promise here making you happier or more well off?
Yes. I'd rather not pay for a game that is unfinished, so I don't and I'm ok with that. No skin off my back.
>what about them being in Early Access do you think will specifically ruin the experience for you?
Them being unfinished or seemingly abandoned. Super Indie Karts feels almost abandoned, but I keep it on my wish list just in case it's not and it comes out. BeamNG.drive is simply unfinished. From what I understand, the feature I really want, career mode, is far from finished and any progress made is likely to be lost in future updates. I can happily wait on both of these games since I have a plethora of other games to play. Most of the time I forget it exists until I look at my wish list.
I remember pirating Super Indie Karts like 5 years ago when my friend and I were looking for games to play. Crazy that it's still not out yet.
OK, see you in 2026
I wish there was a way to frame your game as not early access. Like don't be deliberately misleading, but also don't get lumped in with blatantly unfinished tech demos that also have the "early access" title. Maybe have like 2 hours of a game, upload it to steam or whatever, but don't call it "early access" and don't charge for it. Have it be as polished as you can, then continue adding to the game in the form of 2-hour content addition updates. Then call it 1.0 or whatever when you got the whole game on there and start charging for it.
Idk it helps to advertise your game by uploading it early, but I don't want the "Early Access" stigma that comes with shit like the unfinished and unpolished tech demos you see on steam lol
>just wait the game to come out
>play it
simple really but morons fall for it all the time
These games sit in ea for a decade trickle updates and or die
i don't give a frick
The way I understand it, Early access is basically an alpha or beta testing which raises a question for me isn't it considered to be a part of testers's job to do it, so why do they make people pay for it or don't provide people with a free access to it if they want feedback from the users?
The whole thing is sketchy and I don't understand people who are willingly engage in it.
That's my understanding of it. The idea is actually supposed to be something more like, "oh this game isn't finished yet, but if you like what we got so far and you're a fan then you can help support this awesome project so that we can see it through to completion!" But in reality yes it's just beta testing that the beta testers have to pay for.
Early Access tags are a blessing. Fricking hate it when shit devs """release""" a game but are still actively working on it and doing major overhauls and shit.
Against the storm has been the best one so far
>Fricking Stoneshard
Finish your fricking game you fricks, I don't care if most of the devs are ukranian, you guys already moved away now get to it.
>game is feature complete, optimized, has little bugs and years of major content updates
>devs refuse to call it finished
what is thier endgame?
Didn't they literally just release a big update a couple of weeks back?
What would you consider as a "finished game" in the case of that game, what does it look like to you and what is currently missing from it in your opinion?
Well the game version is currently 0.27 so.. there's still plenty to go for 1.0.
If you're interested int the game then maybe you should support the developer by playing it and giving them feedback instead of crying to a mongolian basket weaving forum dummy.
Yeah
But I won't support them if they have the shame banner on steam
Keep that on itch.io if you're a pro, don't advertise your prototypes and tech demos all over steam
>check game thats been "out" for like 5 years or more
>[early access]
What the
No game should be early access for more than a year. After that, it's just a joke.
Worst part is how many of them are like 70-90% complete and will never cross the finish line.
>see game, interesting
>early access
>avoid it for a bit
>end up buying it because it’s “complete” enough
>it’s fun but will never appreciably change to be finished
I just don’t get how devs can take 2 years to get to the point they release it in early access at “almost done” stage and then do nothing for years on end. What the frick do people at their offices even do?
Milk sales and patreon funds.
is the issue small companies where everyone gets a %? There should still be peons trying to justify their existence somewhere in the corporate ladder