Larian Studios Forums Divinity: Original Sin 2 Divinity - Original Sin 2 - General Little upset over the early access coming to Xbox.

While reading up on my daily gaming news an article caught my eye, the title reading “Divinity 2 is coming to early access on Xbox May 16”. Reading this I was ecstatic because I just finished my 2nd playthrough of the first one and in doing so made me a huge fan of the series. Upon further reading of the article, I find out it’s to be free... (this gave me pause momentarily) reading further it will let players play for 1 hour trial unless preordered then it will open up the entire 1st Act.

Now after reading this I’m a little upset, not devastated by any means but now as a huge fan of the series find myself flustered. I work earning $9.75 an hour and a $60 game takes me a day to work for (not cheap with a small family) this usually means I have to get games on sale digitally as I don’t do physical copies or pick them up in early access to get a slightly cheaper deal as well as helping the development team make a great game and name for themselves.

That all said, to me early access should be EARLY ACCESS not early DEMO. You as a companies will be able to use the early access data and feedback to fix the game but only at launch. As a huge fan now I can’t afford a full $60 game at release even though I want too. Worse yet is I look a full release price on Steam (I don’t have a computer good enough to play PC games hence why I was excited for a console port) and it’s regular price is $45. So basically your early accessing a demo I can’t afford to preorder because it doesn’t come with an early access price point and the PCs full version is already 25% off at full release.

Sorry, I don’t mean to rant as this series (hopefully franchise) will continue to grow and now as a fan you will have my money it just won’t be at launch sadly like I wish it could be so I can make more fun (or chaotic) memories in the series but as is I will be joining the adventure late sadly.

Keep doing you Larian Studios and making these awesome games and I’m sorry to rant just a little sad and upset I’ll have to wait to journey back to Divinity’s lands.