While on paper early access looks like great thing, it is only great for developers and they love to abuse that system.
From my experience - I've supported way waaaay to many early access games over the years and I can't say that was a good idea. ( I've stopped doing this like 3 years ago and I will never do it again! ) First thing - devs love to keep their games in early access forever and releasing DLC content for games that are not even close to being ready for release. Second - game stays in early access for many years, DLC rolling and guess what game is shut down completely ( after milking player base ) Third - devs gets money for early access and then they releasing game that should stay in EA because its a bloody incomplete buggy mess so they can get more money. ( Of course they will say everything will be fixed in time - and generally they won't do that ) The amount of lies and bluffs from early access developers ( and kickstarter projects ) over the years just blows my mind. I feel sorry for for small dev. teams that really care about they projects and want to create something great, ( and lack resources ) unfortunately I've rather bad experience from all may support so no more!
Basic idea was great but time showed that EA is simply corrupted.
My final thought is that EA should disappear for good.
From my experience - I've supported way waaaay to many early access games over the years and I can't say that was a good idea. ( I've stopped doing this like 3 years ago and I will never do it again! ) First thing - devs love to keep their games in early access forever and releasing DLC content for games that are not even close to being ready for release. Second - game stays in early access for many years, DLC rolling and guess what game is shut down completely ( after milking player base ) Third - devs gets money for early access and then they releasing game that should stay in EA because its a bloody incomplete buggy mess so they can get more money. ( Of course they will say everything will be fixed in time - and generally they won't do that ) The amount of lies and bluffs from early access developers ( and kickstarter projects ) over the years just blows my mind. I feel sorry for for small dev. teams that really care about they projects and want to create something great, ( and lack resources ) unfortunately I've rather bad experience from all may support so no more!
Basic idea was great but time showed that EA is simply corrupted.
My final thought is that EA should disappear for good.
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