Comments on: Editorial: Early Access Games http://lusipurr.com/2014/03/20/editorial-early-access-games/ Mon, 24 Aug 2015 15:34:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.3 By: James 'Gyme' Pagel http://lusipurr.com/2014/03/20/editorial-early-access-games/#comment-67502 Mon, 24 Mar 2014 05:42:54 +0000 http://lusipurr.com/?p=11214#comment-67502 Early Access games quickly devolved into a way to get people to pay to be beta testers. As Iliya said, there are some games that make good use of the program, releasing frequent updates that add content and push the game towards becoming a finished product. However, many games go months without updates (and in the case of Godus, remove features while adding some new ones). It kinda makes you wonder where your money is going if it isn’t going towards a finalized product. Also, there’s the example of Planetary Annihilation that was apparently such a great early access game that the developers felt it needed to be priced at a whopping $90.

]]> By: Iliya_Moroumetz http://lusipurr.com/2014/03/20/editorial-early-access-games/#comment-67465 Sat, 22 Mar 2014 20:44:25 +0000 http://lusipurr.com/?p=11214#comment-67465 I’ll be honest. When I first heard about early access games on steam, I was kind of excited. Paying a small fee for a game you might get anyway while it’s being made? Hearing what the developers were doing on a much more frequent basis? Sign me up!

Too bad it’s all devolved into yet another source of funding, which is, in my opinion, a bad idea. There’s no guarantee that the game will be done and when you’re basically paying for the privelage for beta testing, it seems to reek for a bit of desperation instead of trying to make the game better.

Bear in mind, I don’t paint this brush over all of them, some of them are good, however, there have been some examples of some sketchy dealings by those who would have been better off taking more time to refine the game instead of seeing how much cash they could get from the uninformed.

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