I not only share your cautious approach towards consumer involvement with open access, I lament it. It seems to me that around the late 90s and early 00s when PC developers realized there was a huge untapped market in the largely Japanese dominated console market, we began seeing more and more half-assed titles that were kind of what you’d get from B-tier PC developers. By the time we arrived at the modern console market, we were outright seeing a mirror of the PC process of development, which seems to rely a great deal on patches and ongoing efforts to fix problems that should have been smoothed out before it was slapped onto a shelf with a sixty dollar pricetag. All this early access and kickstarter nonsense reeks of teams who either don’t have a good enough idea or product pull off a successful pitch, or aren’t that invested in delivering a polished product so much as a constant source of revenue. Certainly I’d accuse Schaefer of that.