Comment on Steam now warns about Early Access that have not been updated in months.
DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.works 4 days agoMaybe hold back 50% of the revenue to only be released to the devs when the game full releases
Comment on Steam now warns about Early Access that have not been updated in months.
DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.works 4 days agoMaybe hold back 50% of the revenue to only be released to the devs when the game full releases
visor841@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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.
TyrianMollusk@lemm.ee 4 days ago
So, when a game releases, buyers get the option to partially refund or commit, and valve uses the commit money to pay the refunds, so devs only make money if they keep more than half of their buyers, and customers have to consciously deal with sinking money into a potentially failed project.
Most early access failures eventually just call themselves released at some point, so we’re no better off as far as that.