Maybe not allow the studio to charge for early access?

[killertofu@lemmy.world]

Maybe not allow the studio to charge for early access?

[simple@lemm.ee]

Why? There are plenty of proper games that benefit from early access, and plenty of people that enjoy early access.

[killertofu@lemmy.world]

And plenty of early access games that die on the vine. Pay to be an alpha tester? You do you.

[dacrazyjamez@sh.itjust.works]

Maybe hold back 50% of the revenue to only be released to the devs when the game full releases

[iamthetot@sh.itjust.works]

And you don't want to? You do you. You're the one trying to suggest an outright ban, then you suggest a personal solution. Take your own advice.

[knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de]

Game developers also like to get paid, if early access wouldn't be an option we would have far less indie games and far more half baked 1.0 releases.
No one is forcing you to buy ea titles.

[atropos@lemmy.world]

Yeah, I don't buy early access for this reason except in extremely rare circumstances.

But that doesn't mean we should prevent others from buying into early access. Let people make their own decisions!

[visor841@lemmy.world]

That just incentives devs to just push out whatever mess they currently have and say the game is released, and they'll do it unless Valve wants to start moderating game again. At least right now the abandoned games are still labelled early access.

[wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world]

Okay, you develop and release a game for free then, only being allowed to charge for it after a few years.

What, you don't want to do that?

[flihpflorp@lemm.ee]

Whenever I buy early access I ask my self “if the devs evaporated and development stopped permanently tomorrow, would I still buy this game?” It has snagged me some games I love like valheim, window kill, palworld and blade & sorcery. It’s also gotten me some games I enjoyed but still felt like a paid a good price for it, and also dodged a few bullets because the games look fun but weren’t complete and I didn’t buy