What's up with all the early access cancer on Steam?This game Rust -- while enjoying positive reviews -- has been in early access for almost FOUR YEARS. What the fuck? I want to try it out, but it would never feel like buying a complete game.Whil

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Anonymous 10/28/17 (Sat) 07:44:25 e4b822 No.13683648

What's up with all the early access cancer on Steam?

This game Rust – while enjoying positive reviews – has been in early access for almost FOUR YEARS. What the fuck? I want to try it out, but it would never feel like buying a complete game.

While on the topic, DAYZ has been in early access for nearly the exact amount of time and the reviews show player dissatisfaction. It's almost as if the devs abandoned it like it were Notepad2.exe. Steam should chuck the early access imo.

Anonymous 10/28/17 (Sat) 07:47:49 534ed5 No.13683656

>>13683648

>What's up with

you can get paid for making a game, or you can get paid for promising to make a game.

one of those things is easier to do.

it's not rocket science, anon.

Anonymous 10/28/17 (Sat) 07:48:16 ad6d1e No.13683657

Why finish something when you can milk while it's unfinished? Retarded, but I guess that's an "acceptable" business practice these days.

Anonymous 10/28/17 (Sat) 07:51:30 b87715 No.13683663

If I was steam I'd put a 2 year cap on early access. If you go over the time limit the game is taken down and everyone can get an automatic refund no matter the play time.

Anonymous 10/28/17 (Sat) 07:52:55 105789 No.13683669

>>13683657

It'll stop being acceptable when it stops being profitable. People need to wake the fuck up. If I had more motivation I'd be selling 25% of a game for full price and handing out fake promises like candy to attract more idiots. Can you really blame them for taking advantage of people with zero consequences, because the customers were retarded enough to agree bullshit unenforceable terms?

Anonymous 10/28/17 (Sat) 07:58:52 bf3714 No.13683679

>>13683648

The worst examples of early access really are just an example of how horrendously bad the multiplayer open world survival/crafting genre is.

Anonymous 10/28/17 (Sat) 07:59:14 37eac8 No.13683681

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>look up funny experiment i saw while ago

>read on the further implications of life success

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Anonymous 10/28/17 (Sat) 08:16:47 b932f4 No.13683841

>inb4 rottenredditor shows up to defend rust

Anonymous 10/28/17 (Sat) 08:18:23 9fdea1 No.13683851

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>>13683681

Why not split the first marshmallow in half. It's not like it affects taste.

I wouldn't wait fifteen minutes for a single fucking marshmallow

>>13683841

I remember that guy

Anonymous 10/28/17 (Sat) 09:07:52 482496 No.13684116

>>13683657

pretty much this

Anonymous 10/28/17 (Sat) 10:20:42 9dd1dd No.13684353

>>13683681

There's difference.

Early access games are like delivering a burned marshmallow but with cream plastered on it but because of the cream it is cut in half. That half is also divided into smaller pieces. Now every 5 minutes you'll get a miniscule piece of marshmallow until you have your whole marshmallow back. Now after 6 hours you have your whole marshmallow back.

Anonymous 10/28/17 (Sat) 10:59:21 3b1c04 No.13684506

What is the difference between being and not being in early access?

Anonymous 10/28/17 (Sat) 11:18:59 8cf18b No.13684571

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>>13683681

It falls apart once you consider developers ones waiting.

They have option to eat marshmallow now or wait and still get same marshmallow. Why stay and finish the game once you have been already paid for your job?

Most of game sales is once it releases or if it got popular after release. In terms of Towns it meant they got all the money once the game got viral. Why continue development when you won't get paid for it?

>>13684506

In multiplayer games there is 0 difference. They will be in constant development for new features. Same for MMOs and sandboxes like Minecraft, Cities Skylines.

In regular singleplayer games there is also no difference because nearly nobody makes finished games nowadays.

Anonymous 10/28/17 (Sat) 13:53:14 637b63 No.13685153

>>13683648

> early access is cancer

Hello newfriend