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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

Early Access is a fucking blight on the marketplace

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

It should be marketed as beta test. I get not wanting to give out game for free or needing some funding to finish it, but its still an unfishished product.

IMO it should be something like so;

  • Free to play for 5 hours or up to a certain level/about 20% play complete depending on the game style.
  • pay to access rest of game. Full refund available any time or up to 15hrs/80% of game. With warning that stops game play until player is fully notified "if you keep playing past this point, you can not refund"
  • players can be rewarded for participating as a beta tester if they actually provide constructive feedback.
  • those rewards could be simply unlocking more time to play/levels, and a certain point they "earn" the whole game. Rewards can not be in-game advatages. Cosmetics is okay.
  • Once game is released, standard refund rules take affect.
  • if you paid for early access then it transfers to released game. If Dev try something sketchy like list the game under a new store page, any one who downloaded it regardless of payment will get a free key and Dev will be banned from listing anything early access.
  • reviews from early access will be separated from release to keep outdated user feedback out of the mix.

Just throwing out a few ideas, trying to keep it fair to both dev and player, but obviously I'm not a game business expert.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

pay to access rest of game. Full refund available any time or up to 15hrs/80% of game. With warning that stops game play until player is fully notified "if you keep playing past this point, you can not refund"

That would fuck over devs so hard I think

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yes. In my opinion it's fine that they want to make some money with their unfinished game. Game development is expensive and esspecially for smaller studios early acces is one way to get funds before the game is finished. What I have a problem with is that some early access games are still full price for an unfiniahed game. And a lot worse than that are those games that release as finished games, but that are not in a state you would expect. So basically early access in disguise.

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