I propose 2024 is the year of early access games boycott.

Bring back completed games only.

  • Icalasari@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    Eh, early access isn’t the problem. Palworld has been wrecking Pokemon despite being Early Access

    Can 2024 instead be the year of bad game boycott? When an early access game is better than most AAA completed games, then there’s a serious problem

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        9 months ago

        Preordering made sense when games came in nice boxes, and you wanted to be sure to play it on the day of release instead of waiting for restocking. With digital downloads now which are not limited in quantity it is just stupid.

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          9 months ago

          This, 100%. The only value of preordering is guaranteeing stock of a physical item that threatens to be out of stock if you were to buy it walk-in. In the modern digital age where downloading tens of gigabytes that take up no space, ship near-instantly on demand, and have theoretically infinite supply, preordering is pointless if the actual game itself is all you care about.

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        9 months ago

        i never preorder, and i don’t think i could justify jt even if i did. buying a game for 70 bucks when you don’t even know if it’s any good just sounds stupid to me.

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        9 months ago

        May it’s my age, but I feel like d3 was significantly more popular that d4 is.

        Since it’s required to be online I’m 100% skipping it.

        I’m also Skipping it because they took overwatch 1 away from me. So no more blizzard games until overwatch 1 comes back.

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      9 months ago

      Early Access is a problem when big publishers try to do it. It makes sense that indies do it so they have cash flow at all. Big outlets have funding on hand, but are trying to leverage it, anyway.

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        9 months ago

        Using us as test dummies is still better than releasing an unfinished piece of shit for full price.