Well, I mean, I would have launched it first (as an AAA game), but I’m no game developer. 🤷 And neither are they, from the looks of it. Good at perpetually raking in money for himself and his family, though!

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      9 months ago

      It’s playable if that’s what you mean. It’s still “early access” though.

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        Yeah it’s “released”. Meaning that yes, you can buy it for money and launch it (so released), but it’s so shit they had to quickly officially declare it broken (“early access”) to save face.

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          When did they ever “release” it without saying its also early access?

          edit - assuming downvotes are cause of a misunderstanding. im not defending early access or star citizen. I am just saying I do not recall them “backpedaling” to early access. I thought they had always advertised it as early access. Which itself is shady af

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            What I mean is, “early access” is just release with the makers openly admitting that everything is unfinished and broken, instead of people finding out on release day. It’s still a product X being sold money Y, just like a “real” release. And hence it should always be evaluated for what you get vs what you pay, not the promise of what you might get later. See also: Preorders (at least these are protected by a lot of laws in some countries), Kickstarters, Religions.

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        “Playable”

        for the record I paid for this and am watching with hopeful eyes, but please stop pretending that being able to launch the game and walk around is playing

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      9 months ago

      Even more fascinating, people are still chucking money at it. Because apparently too many ran out of other things to waste money on. Entirely.