At one hand i can see the amazing advantages of a good Steam Early Acces.. at the other hand, all games ive seen in Steam Early Acces so far lost their hype etc. long before release, making the feeling about Early Acces games a bit damp.
I've bought quite a few early access games. Namely, folk tale, grim dawn, and 7 days to die.
Folk tale is a shallow experience. Full of bugs and annoying interface problems. Had to stop playing for about an hour. The gameplay lasted that long when I bought it. Did not bother playing it again, but I'm going to play it again once it has been officially released.
I enjoyed Grim Dawn though. I did not engage on it too much because it was alpha access.
For 7 days to die, it's a fun game if played with the right people.
There had been few games which were released officially that had been under development for more than 5 years like Path of Exile and Overgrowth. IMO, Overgrowth did not change over the years as compared with Path of Exile.
There was one Total Biscuit WTF let's play that had been flagged by the developer because of TB's first impression.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfgoDDh4kE0It's a hit or miss in this Early access generation.
True, Folk Tale put their game on Early acces with 1 idea and then changed over the entire concept and engine coding and had to start alll over again, which is just a dumb mistake tbh
Grim Dawn and Blackguards are the only games in my eyes that actually do their job well as early acces games. They are quite fun and the content adding isnt that slow'
Games like PoE.. well.. no offense to PoE but early acces? nope, they simply release an 99,999% done game at that point :P
Games like Overgrowth though will take another 2 years before they will be more filled. Having 2 guys make an amazingly hard full physics engine thats as realistic as possible. I cant imagine the pain they must have at times, much butthurt in their office probably :P
And then ofcourse... you have the failures. Cashgrabs are not that uncommon, but can be seen from far away and avoided.
I do have to agree that Early Acces is MASSIVELY flawed. The concept of finding and supporting hidden gems is there, but there is a thing called "is it worth it". Is it worth it having a system to find hidden gems, if there is only like a 3% outcome of nice games and a 97% outcome of problems and crappy games
Nonetheless i cant really say anything for D:OS. Even in early stages its already a strong game kinda, though it still lacks alot and if larian has looked at all possibilities and came to the conclusion that early acces really is the best way, i will just bow down for it.
It wont take away my fun playing it anyway
