PC 7d2d leaving alpha soon?
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AtomicUs5000
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Did you look at the release date of grounded? You must. It's a joke.
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Laz Man
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Well thats a pretty safe date....Did you look at the release date of grounded? You must. It's a joke.
pApA^LeGBa
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When it´s ready. I rather have a another 2 years of alpha than a bugfest or badly optimized game at release. There is way too many premature releases in the gaming industry already. We don´t need another one.
Feycat
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I mean, honestly read the other posts? It was a joke that I fell for.
Also? I'm not even sure I'll play this game when it goes gold, lol. I live for the new alphas changing the game up!
PoloPoPo
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To be fair, why are we assuming that 7D2D has not been released yet? This game can be bought on steam for example at a price of a regular game. If it didn't say "alpha" at various points no one would think that this game is still in development apart from some common updates here and then like a lot of games get.
What will change once "alpha" ends and the game is supposed to be complete? Since when do you have to pay for becoming an alpha tester?
AtomicUs5000
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There's a bright blue box with larger font right in the middle of store page that tells you it's early access... you can't miss it.
What changes is no more updates.
I prefer to think of it as I purchased the game ahead of time, and at a much cheaper cost. I got this for less than $10 back when I bought it.
I bought three more copies over the summer sale for friends. It was -66%, so somewhere around $8.50 per copy.
A game worth hundreds, if not thousands, of hours of entertainment for the cost of lunch (a cheap lunch).
Nobody forces me to play my early purchase. I could just set it aside and wait until it's done... but I prefer to watch the game evolve through the years. I don't own a ton of games... about 50, and I would say about half of those are early access. Some I haven't even launched yet, but I picked them up in their initial days dirt cheap and I know they will be worth the money when I do play them. After all, if I pick up a game for 10 bucks, and all I get out of it is 10 hours of gameplay, then $1/hr of entertainment is worth it. Very few of them have I paid more than $10 for and those are AAA titles that I have loved for years such as DOOM.
Another thing that I expect would change is the cost. It's 25 bucks right now I believe. I wouldn't doubt that at the time of release it goes up to around $40 for at least a year afterward. When that happens, anybody buying it at full retail cost can be assured that the likelihood of the game being good is much greater because it went through years of actual players playing the game before it was officially released. So, even then, it will be worth the money. People spend hundreds of dollars every year on cable TV, renting and buying music and movies, and even going to theaters to watch movies. The cost of this game and the hours you get out of it is huge in comparison to these other sources of entertainment.
backlash. Backlash. BACKLASH, DAMMIT!!!
What will change is that before release there will be a longer bug fix period. While it never will be bug free it will be much more polished. We became accustomed to all the small bugs and imbalances by now, but this isn't the norm. "Backpack dropped through the world? Oh yeah, use creative, no problem."
But the biggest change will be the stability of the modding interface. This means there will be a large group of mods that are well polished, complete, final and generally usable even after a bug fix patch from TFP.
Boidster
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You won't like the other defense arguments either.
By the way, once this game is out of EA nobody will care anymore about criticism you bring up because the game is done and finished, with all warts and holes. Maybe historians will read your pamphlet and you might be able to prevent a few steam users from buying the game.
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Reckis
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7 years or 100, it is still early access and things are still subject to change or in development. "In development" meaning that they are aren't finished or polished,
pApA^LeGBa
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Go play something buginfested from Bethesda. Then think again. Also small company working on their first game. I mean really? You rather have a buggy game that you can critize without any counter arguments than a well done game. Some people...
Madnesis
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SylenThunder
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Yeah, I know. I mean, you have AAA companies with near-unlimited budgets, and hundreds of developers working on a big title, and it takes on average 7-9 years to build a large game from scratch. Why can't a small indie company funded off a kickstarter with only a few developers do that?
pApA^LeGBa
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@Madnesis Still better than playing a bugfest that get´s abandoned as soon as it is released.
@PoloPoPo You don´t seem to understand the concept of early access. It exists so developers can make money to finish a game. No one forced you to buy it, you don´t like paying (way less than for the finished product) for it? Don´t do it. There is a wall of text in the steam shop, right under the video and directly above the buy button, that explains very clearly what early access is. You should inform yourself before spending money...
@PoloPoPo You don´t seem to understand the concept of early access. It exists so developers can make money to finish a game. No one forced you to buy it, you don´t like paying (way less than for the finished product) for it? Don´t do it. There is a wall of text in the steam shop, right under the video and directly above the buy button, that explains very clearly what early access is. You should inform yourself before spending money...
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