Nah bad post. I would prefer if they made them free, but not selling things because they are abandoned or some people dont like them is shit. Preserve all games as much as possible. Lots of famous art wouldnt exist today if we were to throw everything away that isnt seen as good or finished at the time. A warning label is perfect, let people know that it might not be what they expect, but let people play it if they want to.
I guess there’s also legal reasons they wouldn’t want to make it free, just in case the creator sues them saying they were still working on it or something.
Yeah reminder that Van Gogh didn’t sell but one of his own paintings during his lifetime for sure. Although he did sell a lot of other people’s paintings when he was 15 and worked in an art gallery.
I can’t find a specific clip but if people have seen Doctor Who Van Gogh episode, where he’s just treated like garbage and a shit painter.
I think on QI they also mentioned once he was just like a teacher in the UK at one point. There’s good jokes as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o2TBmLARlA
It’s not exactly the same for some of those abandoned cash-grabs I guess, but the point is we can’t really know, so I definitely agree with you that we shouldn’t just delete them.
Van Gogh was exactly who i was thinking of while writing this comment :) I never watched Doctor Who, but i know and love that clip.
Ah, but “the clip” is prolly referring to basically the climax of the episode, if it’s the clip where the Doctor takes him to the Musée d’Orsay.
But you miss all the buildup of the episode, and personally I think Doctor Who is very good at it. They show Van Gogh’s desperation and loneliness in the episode. And then to have that sort of fantastical acceptance from the entire world.
There’s a lot of that sort of story in Doctor Who, I greatly recommend. As far as scifi goes, Dr Who is whimsical and emotional and doesn’t really care about tiny details of tech and lore as opposed to Star Trek which is like very methodical and logical and clinical.
In Doctor Who emotions are the hero in like at least half the stories. This wasn’t even one of them, just a random monster story basically.
I’ve put down projects for years and then picked them back up. Where’s the line in the sand for “removal”? 6 months? A year? You show me a line in the sand I’ll show you a developer who was pushing the next update a day later. I don’t always agree with steam, but this is a very valid option.
What if it’s multiplayer? What if your friend group is playing an EA game and they tell you to pick it up but you can’t because it was just delisted because the developer hasn’t updated in too long?
The warning is valid
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You control the buttons you press. Just don’t buy them if you see the warning.
To be fair, I’d rather abandoned early access games have a warning rather than be flat out unsellable. In an ideal world in my opinion, any abandoned early access game on Steam would be either be set as a free to play game or be marked down to a ridiculously low price like 99¢ rather than being outright unsellable.
I would get it if the publisher and/or developers decided to remove a game, make it real cheap, or outright make it free to play. Letting Steam decide what happens? Maybe as a last resort sort of thing where they send something like an email saying that if they don’t do substantial updates and/or reply back, their product will be made free to play or marked at a heavily reduced price.
Edit after seeing it for the first time: They should really male the text bigger IMO and/or add an extra disclaimer when it’s added to the cart. Like “The Early Access game you have added to your cart hasn’t had an update in [insert time] would you like to continue?” And highlight the item.
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Depends on the game really, but in general I agree.
Some early access games have the core gameplay loop done they’re just not feature complete, and some early access games didn’t nail the loop before being abandoned. Some are barely functional when abandoned, and some are thinly veiled tech demos.
And some early access games have been in early access forever constantly ballooning in scope and will likely never leave early access. And some came with an initial scope that should’ve been a huge red flag for everyone but then they basically went into “maintain appearances” mode (scams like Star Citizen)
