Honestly I like early access, it give us players a chance to change what the game should be on 1.0. Imagine skull and bones or Suwiside squad kill the JL hit ea instead of full release these games won't be immediately dead in the water and gamers can suggest meaningful changes to gameplay, because in the end of the day it's the gamers who will buy games. Perfect example is Baldur's Gate and a plethora of ea games from indie studios.
That being said H-games are entirely different these games are primarily to milk patreon so don't be shock when these games release in ea just to be milk for years. As a bonus the more broken and bare bones the game is the more content and fixes they can "release" to satisfy them patreons.
Neither of those games would have been saved by early access considering how much of idiots the developpers are. Especially skull and bones which spent a long time in development hell. Early access works when the devs communicate with the player base like Larian does, but Ubisoft absolutely doesn't give a fuck.
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Nah, he has a point. Ubisoft may not care about player experience directly, but they do know that poor reception = less money, so people saying it's shit would get them to change it if they can.
Early Access can't and won't save every game, but it can help. And it's good for the devs too, who get a return on investment before dumping millions of dollars in programmer pay into a game that turns out to be the E.T. NES game.
The real issue is that it's normalized not only releasing games when there's barely any game there, but also charging for the half-baked experience.
Early Access can't and won't save every game, but it can help. And it's good for the devs too, who get a return on investment before dumping millions of dollars in programmer pay into a game that turns out to be the E.T. NES game.
The real issue is that it's normalized not only releasing games when there's barely any game there, but also charging for the half-baked experience.
