Why don't game devs just make games early access (in a playable state) instead of releasing buggy messes like No Man's Sky or Cyberpunk 2077? Nobody complains when early access games are missing features because they know they will be added.
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Maybe because some (a lot of?) gamers will not purchase games which are in early access, but will purchase a "finished" game.
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everyone were excited about early access to begin with, but by now pretty much every gamer has been burned by EA devs taking the money and running from a unfinished product
EA isnt "get your money early" anymore
its "get permanent negative review score from a extremely vocal minority that bought your game"
People don't buy early access games and Sean Murray knew what he was doing.
I'm tired of pretending that homosexual was somehow too moronic to speak honestly about a game he was working on. He was using the hype to gather capital from retail sales and it worked.
Good for NMS for going back and making it playable but this scam was all over the place in that era on KS
>wanting more early access cancer
youve got a bad case of dumbBlack person op.
Being early access is codename for "we've made a good start but will rush the ending so we can put 1.0 here".
AAA games already means the game will be in early access for at least a year.
>Why don't game devs just make games early access
lots of them do, and lots of them stop working on the game during the early access phase, diminishing customer trust for early access.
see valheim
also, NMS is a prime example of a game with wasted potential because the devs have no idea about engaging gameplay, leading to long-term players doing nothing but building pointless bases and sharing screenshots on forums.
Did you see Rolled Out at SGDQ a few days ago? Someone bought that shit for me when it came out. In all this time, they added a bunch of new levels, a few new playable characters and some ball skins. That's it. No new game modes, multiplayer, minigames, Steam Workshop support, level editor or even some more goddamn songs beyond the handful they have in-game right now. They couldn't even fix the broken interface.
EA was a mistake.
the guy drinking knows its not finished and instead of saying anything he chugs his beer to hide the pain he knows is coming in the future from the shitstorm that is about to play out
How about devs start making functioning games again?
So, now for the real question: how much did he pay Internet Historian?
No Man's Sky isn't that bad nowadays.
it's absolutely atrocious. People are deluded by "how much they fixed things" but the game is a horribly broken mess with little to actually do. Much of the content they've added is also clearly them forcing the game to do something they never had any intention of adding originally. Water bases for instance are broken messes, multiple easy ways to make space ladders exist and of course terrain manipulation is a joke.
It's incredibly shallow and a big disappointment if you expect more than just taking a few clown puke screenshots.
It's like every feature was realized with a monkey's paw wish
>space combat? alright, but every battle is over after a minute and is easy as frick
>derelict freighter combat? yeah, but you cannot run and you only fight some easy and boring swarmer enemies
>ground combat? okay, but only against the equivalent of GTA police system in form of flying drones
>vehicles? sure, but they are not really fast and mostly function as inventory extension when gathering resources
and those are just my biggest gripes. there is a good game somewhere hidden in NMS, but the devs have no idea of how to make it actually engaging.
just like f76 is totally good now and is worth playing
Yeah it went from unplayable crap to mediocre crap. Still not worth a shit and they don't even deserve attention for the scam they pulled out.
W...what happens at the 45 min mark?
IH reads erotic fanfiction featuring NMS's director.
moronic fans will pay money for the broken game. Devs hate the players. They probably hate their games too.
Publishers need new releases at a regular pace. To attract them, they offer marketing a game, but in return they need a firm date for release. Hello games went for that, though with hindsight, their game was a far better fit for an early access game.
Most games are already released as "early access" if you haven't noticed. Only difference is that not everything is a MVP cancer, which even your average moron isn't moronic enough to fall for.
you homosexuals have zero idea of what goes into making and shipping a game
that is all.
>t. dev
shut up and type code your worthless ape
Not my problem, stop releasing broken shit.
I don't care either
Be better
nobody cares about it and that is fine
>t. dev
Don't know how you have time what with keeping up with the alphabet soup twitterverse and TikTok. Must be rough fitting game development into such a hectic schedule.
Not my problem
Should have chosen a different career if you wanted it easy
the publisher/investors don't like that.
Used to be called beta testing.
and it used to be you didnt have to pay to be a beta tester
I still don't get the rationale behind preordering digital shit. You are literally paying to beta test. At least with physical media you'd get goodies or even get your copy earlier since scarcity was a thing.
Digital media was a mistake, games were better when devs were forced to ship thoroughly tested shit with little to no bugs since patches would require a complete reissue and game breaking bugs were simply unacceptable.
Everybody will complain that EA never actually leave EA and nowadays people really had short patiences and won't wait for everything. Good EA studios like larian took very long time to leave EA back then it's about 2 years but now i don't know how long BG 3 in EA
Early access was a mistake because it enabled Black folk to get the best of both worlds.
>full launch game
>its in heavy beta state
Its the same shit and players are one chancers except few exceptional cases so if you make a shit early access you re doomed
the bugs and lack of polish kill the experience and people lose interest when they get to play a game
also you can't really do early access for a single player thing unless you release parts as sections
Ask the homosexuals over on 7DTD. That shit has been in EA for nearly a decade and it still looks as garbage as the day it was released.
I wish someone told Sean his untrimmed beard looks like shit.
Honestly AAA games could probably get away with it, everyone's enough of a corporate bootlicker these days that they could break the "small indie company plz understand" stereotype, being a bigger company means they already have a free defense force too
>No Mans ONIONS
FTFY