• Frogster8@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I realise in modern gaming most people don’t care about this anymore, but seeing a development roadmap for a game you can actually buy in a store is just a failure.

    Remember betas and demos, now we pay for the privilege of these, you buy early access to play an unfinished product, you buy a deluxe edition for 72 hour pre-release.

    Just a terrible trend I really hate to see and it doesn’t seem to happen anywhere else, I wouldn’t pay for a whole film and get the first quarter while the rest is edited and released, I wouldn’t pay for an album of 10 songs but they’re still writing 8.

    Baffling.

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      9 months ago

      Witchfire is clearly labeled as Early Access, don’t see the problem in this case. If you want a finished game don’t buy Witchfire yet. If you want to moan about modern gaming in general maybe use another post?

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        9 months ago

        I think I’ll put my comments about early access on a post about a game in early access, if you’ve got a problem don’t read it.

        At no point did I say it wasn’t clearly labelled, you’re arguing non existent points. Finally, something isn’t moaning because it disagrees with you, perception can be an interesting thing and you seem to lack the ability to process a differing view point.

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          9 months ago

          okay then keep complaining buddy. But I think early access gives developers the opportunity to release their games earlier and gather feedback and refine them.

          You are not forced to buy them and reality is without early access we wouldn’t have indie hits like valheim, hades, everspace, divinity or baldurs gate.

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      9 months ago

      are you really complaining about indie developers releasing a game into early access?