As I mentioned to someone else, that’s a shame. The only alternative to Early Access = developers having to go hat-in-hand, begging for up-front investments from heartless corporations. They increasingly won’t fund anything that isn’t fit to be saddled with a games-as-a-service price-gouging model.
When Early Access is abused, it’s destroying that necessary system for all of us, developers and consumers alike. If you want games that aren’t 100 percent mainstream, money-sucking garbage, you should want Early Access to stick around. That’s why I think it should, ya know, suck less, and NOT be abused.
See: Baldur’s Gate 3, which was functionally early access for years. Yeah they had a deal with WotC but because they weren’t cash strapped they had a lot of bargaining power and could take time to make it.
Sadly Act 3 is not as sanded down as 1 and 2, but it’s still a great game.
As I mentioned to someone else, that’s a shame. The only alternative to Early Access = developers having to go hat-in-hand, begging for up-front investments from heartless corporations. They increasingly won’t fund anything that isn’t fit to be saddled with a games-as-a-service price-gouging model.
When Early Access is abused, it’s destroying that necessary system for all of us, developers and consumers alike. If you want games that aren’t 100 percent mainstream, money-sucking garbage, you should want Early Access to stick around. That’s why I think it should, ya know, suck less, and NOT be abused.
See: Baldur’s Gate 3, which was functionally early access for years. Yeah they had a deal with WotC but because they weren’t cash strapped they had a lot of bargaining power and could take time to make it.
Sadly Act 3 is not as sanded down as 1 and 2, but it’s still a great game.