It shouldn't be enough to release something that just barely works, early acces should be at least technically working, just lacking content and tweaking, not just a "tech demo". I personally think Steam should hold developers more accountable for their content. So it is, imo quite a big bit of balancing. That part is quite dreadfull to see - just see "Snowman from Russia" that launched today.Īnd that does "drown out" the better games and projects out there, cause they are there and Early Acces has launched quite a big number of projects that turned out VERY good over time - an example being Subnautica that has been in early acces for years, but are growing and supported quite a lot - Prison Architecht that also has been highly praised all around. I'll agree so far that there is a surge of really bad, low priced games that seems designed purely to grab 0,5$ from as many as posible, with a huge lack of content, gameplay and bug fixing, most likely all to be left for dead by developers after "launch" I'd also make sure those Indie game creators are placed under a heavy thumb so they can't release their foul 'games' anymore. Make it so you can refund an EA game ANYTIME, that'd fix it quick and make this greedy devs work. It's so revolting to see promises broke right before your eyes and that game you were promised turn into something so disgusting you can't even stomach it.
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They just give you a half finished pizza for the full price. It's like pizza: The devs make the pizza half baked and 'promise' to bake the other half, but never do. In short, Early Access just doesn't work. Afterwards, I'd completely remove Early Access entirely Early Access developers have no reason to finish a game if it's already sold thousands of copies. Staring with the hundreds of Hentai/Anime games that completely plauge the market.
I, for one, would happily remove hundreds of games from the Steam market if I had even the slightest chance. For a while it's been clear that Valve doesn't want top of the line quality ganes filling their stores, but is instead focusing more towards quantity over quality. Hentai, Early Access, and the awful Indie Game Market manifesting nothing but broken, below par, and pricy games with little content. It would appear that recently we've struck quite a bump, a bump in gaming quality versus quantity.