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Valve now warns on Steam pages if an Early Access game hasn't been updated in a long time
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Early access should always have been a limited state, where you have 1 or 2 years to release the game. Then if the game isn't ready, it is unable to be purchased until it is released.
And it refunds buyers.
Honestly, there's only one early access game that I ever felt was worth it. BG3 did a lot with their time in EA. I'm sure there are others but my guess is that they're not in genres I care about.
Beam.NG is a rare one that been in early access since 2013 and has continually put out updates the entire time. It’s a completely different game than where it started with hundreds of new features and dozens of new cars. One of the greats imo.
Similarly, Factorio was basically a full game for over a year before the v1.0.0 launch, but the devs didn’t feel like it was finished enough to actually launch. People had literal tens of thousands of hours on it before it even hit launch day.