/v/ - Video Games

When this game first came out as EA on Steam I remember one of my friends saying that it would go up in price when the full game comes out and the current price was an amazing deal. I wonder how the guy feels now

this is where successful early access games started

never forget how fucked this concept can get

>>14696796

>hurr durr look at me I'm a retard

Did your Dad forget to beat you today?

>>14696764

One of my friends tried to convince me of this fact as well. Logically every Alpha game would at some point cost more money, e.g. Mincecraft. But I think the dev of Dayz actually never planned on finishing it anyway. Just like scam citizen and an assload of other kickstarter projects never saw the light of day.

>>14696752

so no /v/ DayZ vidya nights?

>>14696821

No one advertises their game on kickstarter / fig or any other site like that with the intention of actually finishing their game anytime soon. Developers like that want to lead the gullible customers by the nose for as long as possible, and make easy money in the process The moment those devs are wealthy enough to live a comfortable life afterwards, they simply disappear without a trace.

>>14696786

Minecraft did it earlier.

>>14696880

>The moment those devs are wealthy enough to live a comfortable life afterwards, they simply disappear without a trace.

Wait when did the Shovel Knight, Grim Dawn, Everspace, Distance, Divinity: OS1 and 2, PoE1 and 2, Hyper Light Drifter and FTL devs fuck off with the money and abandon their game? Did I miss those?

>>14696921

Shovel Knight is alright. The rest of the games you have listed are mediocre at best and outright shit at worst. Nonetheless, they are simply a fluke in comparison to all the shit coming from kickstarter every month.

>>14696969

> to all the shit coming from kickstarter every month.

Please list them, and I already know Yooka-Laylee, MN9, DF-9 and that weird dude's Dreamcast game exist. The good games still outpace the bad easily

>>14696962

It's funny that the game that was the proto-battle royale ended up missing out on the biggest money train since ASSFAGGOTS all because they were too fucking lazy and miserly to get a real development team going. Remember that there was a time when DayZ was so popular that it made millions with literally no advertising other than word of mouth, and they fucked it all up.

Why finish your game when gamers pay for an unfinished product?

>>14697153

One would expect so that you can sell even more copies and expansions, but since dumbfucks are willing to buy DLC for unfinished games (like with Ark), why bother?

>>14697175

They probably did the math. Making games is hard. Even if Dayz came out tomorrow the hype is dead, the competition is strong.

>>14697198

Yeah, pretty much that. Also, there is no incentive to release a finished product if you can keep milking people for cash. Star Citizen (and virtually every project on Patreon) finds it much more profitable to drip feed a few updates in a year to keep the sheep calm and forking over the shekels.

It's frankly disgusting how goddamn gullible most people are.

>>14696752

Still made a huge profit.

>>14696752

Absolutely noone worth their weight in cumrags care.