I propose 2024 is the year of early access games boycott.
Bring back completed games only.
It’s the same with lifestyle and politics. The “woke” people I know that talk about anti capitalist ideology but then buy the dumbest novelty shit and junk food you can imagine, not as a need but as a want. Shit, I had “woke” person whole heartedly defend marvel superhero movies as if it was a fight against hunger and natural right.
When I say woke, I mean anyone that uses the term woke seriously. I do not mean actual kind hearted down to earth open-minded progressive people.
Some of the best games ever made are early access. Like Project Zomboid.
The worst buy I ever did, boring ass game
Why the fuck did you buy it then? Like haven’t you looked it up before wasting money?
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I’m very anti-pre-order, but early access I’m okay with. It comes with the same decision process as buying anything else, is what I’m getting right now worth the money I’m paying? If yes, then buy it, if no then don’t. I don’t buy promises, I buy products.
Baldurs gate 3 is a good example of early access done right. I knew going in I was getting the first 4 levels and roughly 1/4 - 1/3 of the planned final game, but what was there already was worth the price I paid, even if they never finished or released it, I got my money’s worth imo. I put like 200+ hours into it before it released, i can’t be mad at that for 30 bucks.
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Wait, people are buying EA from AAA studios? Cuz like the VAST MAJORITY of EA games are Indie
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Correction: Completed game under $20. 🧐
Yep everyone just needs to slow their roll. I don’t even go for DLC, not part of the original game not buying it.
Too late. Everybody buying Palworld.
It’s pretty fun, and it’s $35. I’ve paid $90 for worse games.
Are people not having fun with Palworld? I haven’t tried it myself but the reviews are 94% positive on Steam right now.
The exploring and catching part of the game is very fun.
It’s pretty shallow and buggy but people have fun with what’s there and it’s enough
I certainly got my 30 bucks worth out of it. If I can come back in a few years and find a better game with more content then that’s just a cherry on top.
It is like free DLC at that point.
Honestly, Palworld shows how bad it is. An early access being better than many complete releases is…
Wow
Just goes to show you that “early release” is mostly just a marketing gimmick these days
Ikr. Really should have made this Jan 1st.
My rule is that I only buy an Early Access game if I’d still be happy with it even if the devs never made another update (because sometimes they don’t).
That’s one of two scenarios where I’m happy to buy early access. Valheim and Palworld both fall in that category. The other category I’m happy to buy early access is for a project I am particularly interested in seeing succeed (and willing to give some feedback on to help). So far I think I’ve only done that with BG3 and that turned out pretty well for me.
This is my thoughts exactly early access tells me there’s gonna be bugs probably and the game will likely be incomplete. If that doesn’t stop me from having fun I’ll buy the game
I’ve played early access games far better than full releases and vice versa. The divide between early access vs not early access is arbitrary and unnecessary in my opinion. Buy games that are worth the price for the fun they offer for you. The only blanket rule I would say is to avoid pre-ordering.
I bought Deep Rock Galactic, Subnautica, annd Satisfactory in early access and have no regrets. These are great games and I would rather pay to be a beta tester on them than play many AAA finished pieces of junk. I think in general it’s not a bad thing to be wary about early access but I’m not sure it warrants an all or nothing approach.
Nuance? On the internet? Get the fuck out of here.
I don’t go for early access games anymore since the Starbound fiasco.
I buy quite a few early access games on Steam. I read the reviews first. If it seems okay, then I buy and play. If I don’t like it then return. Seems pretty safe if you proceed with caution.
100% the way to play video games these days.
Eh, early access isn’t the problem. Palworld has been wrecking Pokemon despite being Early Access
Can 2024 instead be the year of bad game boycott? When an early access game is better than most AAA completed games, then there’s a serious problem
kinda like what’s going on with Last Epoch and Diablo IV
May it’s my age, but I feel like d3 was significantly more popular that d4 is.
Since it’s required to be online I’m 100% skipping it.
I’m also Skipping it because they took overwatch 1 away from me. So no more blizzard games until overwatch 1 comes back.
Diabolo 3 is also always online tho.
Not on console, at least.
Early Access is a problem when big publishers try to do it. It makes sense that indies do it so they have cash flow at all. Big outlets have funding on hand, but are trying to leverage it, anyway.
Using us as test dummies is still better than releasing an unfinished piece of shit for full price.
If we could all just agree to not preorder, I’ll negotiate from there.
i never preorder, and i don’t think i could justify jt even if i did. buying a game for 70 bucks when you don’t even know if it’s any good just sounds stupid to me.
Preordering made sense when games came in nice boxes, and you wanted to be sure to play it on the day of release instead of waiting for restocking. With digital downloads now which are not limited in quantity it is just stupid.
This, 100%. The only value of preordering is guaranteeing stock of a physical item that threatens to be out of stock if you were to buy it walk-in. In the modern digital age where downloading tens of gigabytes that take up no space, ship near-instantly on demand, and have theoretically infinite supply, preordering is pointless if the actual game itself is all you care about.
Is this post not about Palworld?
Now it is
I’ve been happy with many, if not most, of the early access games I bought. But I tend to stick with cheaper indie games anyway. I don’t think I’ve paid more than $30 dollars for a game in over a decade.
