Yes. An early access is meant not to be a release version so everyone can wait for a 1.0 release if they want. NMS released as a 1.0 release, except that it was more of an overpromised 0.1 release. Sean Murray straight up lied to people about the game.
Games like Project Zomboid, which I play & follow for almost 14 years now, have never claimed to be finished during all their time, or promised features that weren’t there.
Guess which title I still regret buying?
I hope they really learned their lesson with this one and don’t make the same mistake with their other title. Otherwise Murray will become the next Molyneux. Or worse, I hope they don’t learned that they can release a purposefully incomplete game by withholding features and content, adding simple easy to fix bugs, just to add & fix all that over the following months & years to be seen as game dev heroes. That’d be a terrifying new business model.
Yes obviously. One is completely transparent about being incomplete, often discounted. The other is deceitful and lying about incomplete and charging you full price.
Is that worse than being in early access for the same amount of time?
Yes. An early access is meant not to be a release version so everyone can wait for a 1.0 release if they want. NMS released as a 1.0 release, except that it was more of an overpromised 0.1 release. Sean Murray straight up lied to people about the game.
Games like Project Zomboid, which I play & follow for almost 14 years now, have never claimed to be finished during all their time, or promised features that weren’t there.
Guess which title I still regret buying? I hope they really learned their lesson with this one and don’t make the same mistake with their other title. Otherwise Murray will become the next Molyneux. Or worse, I hope they don’t learned that they can release a purposefully incomplete game by withholding features and content, adding simple easy to fix bugs, just to add & fix all that over the following months & years to be seen as game dev heroes. That’d be a terrifying new business model.
Yes obviously. One is completely transparent about being incomplete, often discounted. The other is deceitful and lying about incomplete and charging you full price.
Oh, I thought they issued refunds to those that wanted it. Seems they should have just labeled it differently at launch.
Same thing.