Larian Studios Forums Divinity - Original Sin Divinity - Original Sin - General Please don't do Steam Early Access with D:OS

A friend of mine told me about the DOS kickstarter and I checked into it but didn't invest, due to complications with how one needs to pay to invest (not that I didn't have the money, I did).

So, had it not been for Steam's Early Access I would not have even remembered that Larian were even putting out this game.

So, I for one am quite pleased that they chose to put it up on EA and bought it as soon as I saw it there today.

As far as all those complaints about pricing, it happens in every EA titles forum on Steam and the way that I look at it, is that it's simply filled with people that don't understand or believe that the "Minecraft" early access system is the only one that should ever be used. It's not, and it shouldn't be.

Congrats to Larian on getting in on Steam EA, I hope it really brings in a nice chunk of change for you that you can use to make the game even better.

I believe that Steams EA policies will change in time, the more developers that do not finish their games in a timely manner, the more likely it is that people will not buy into the whole EA system on Steam and they'll have to change their policies about what games are allowed as well as possibly change how/whether people can get refunds from those games that did not finish up at all or within a certain amount of time that the developer will need to state in their EA agreement with Steam.

But that won't happen unless / until people stop buying EA games and that will just take a bit of time for people to see that many developers will never finish the games they put up for EA. I know of one game that said they were done, but the popular concencus amongst it's consumers was that it was nowhere near finished and that the devs only called it finished so they could get out of doing anymore work on it and move on to something else to make more money as the money given to them for their original work had run dry and they needed more money but the game was no longer selling well since they called it finished when it was clearly not.