I propose 2024 is the year of early access games boycott.
Bring back completed games only.
I primarily play indie games anyways, so this doesn’t really apply to me.
Pretty sure lots of indie games do early access.
Project zomboid fans 🫥
It’s like when you buy something half finished with a big IOU stapled to it, you don’t know what you’re actually buying or something 😱
Where does “buying it 10 years later so that it can run on whatever the modern equivalent of a teacup is” fit in?
Playing witcher 3 on steamdeck for the first time.
I’ve only just got a computer that can play games from 2005 onwards (no kidding my netbook could handle sims 2 at the most). I’ve also started playing Witcher 3 (got the complete collection for £8) and just bought a controller the other day. I don’t care about fancy cutting edge graphics; good storyline and gaming experience is what matters.
I did witcher 3 like 3 years ago. What a great time I had. My previous PC was barely mid tier in 2012. When I built a new one in 2019 it was a piece of cake to run in an ultra wide monitor with cranked settings.
I upgraded my PC in Oktober with a RX 7600, enough for older games, silent and efficient. I really looked forward to enjoy Witcher 3 at highest settings. A few days later rumors about Witcher 3 Next Gen. How dare they! Now I can’t push every single slider to max and enjoy 120fps!
In all seriousness: The update is great of course and I applaud CD Project Red for releasing it free. Besides the better graphics (Which even the 7600 can handle at Full HD without high RT settings) they also included tons of fixes and quality of live improvements the community made over the time. I can really recommend it.
I even bought it at full price years before I played it because I enjoyed Witcher 2 so much and was certain they will make a good game.
What’s hilarious about this is I was previously using a community mod that did all this already. The official update fucked my performance so hard I rolled it back. I couldn’t really tell a difference. They later fixed it but it does run worse still than the mod version.
I ran it on a mid range business machine from 2014 with mostly mild upgrades and a 1060 6GB. I’ve since upgraded everything but the GPU, need to have another stab but I keep playing CS2 instead. When I’m not playing that it’s TOTK on the Switch.
Ah yes, sunk a lot of hours into totk too.
Relevant XKCD
I’m making a note here. Huge success.
It’s hard to overstate my satisfaction.
But you wouldn’t know, would you?
This is exactly what I’m doing. Games still look great, they run great, and chances are there are a bunch of quality of life mod improvements.
Days gone released on gog not long ago, the first thing I got was the mod for silencers, what a bullshit idea to only use it for five shots and then it’s gone.
And I forgot: I never buy a GaaS! They will shut down The Crew soon, a game I play on a regular basis and one of the most relaxing titles ever made. I don’t care how great a game might be, you won’t get any money out of me ever again dear companies.
That’s how (many) suppressors work in real life though. Each shot erodes the baffles, and after no more than a dozen it’s just a flash hider.
Enshrouded too good
Ooh. It looks cool. Sell me on it.
Do you like Valhiem, the new Zelda games, RPGs, base building, crafting, exploring?
This game does a great job blending these elements together. Since it’s in EA you can already see the huge potential the game can have with the map size and sets of gear and items. Also, since it’s in EA it’s only $25.
Well worth the price.
The pirate life is the way for me
Memesoft and now sony are walking the correct path by creating a netflix VOD like subscription for their platforms, but i only buy current gen games though.
I think you’re a little late on that with Palworld and all.
That and palworld is actually good.
Nah. I propose instead you watch YouTube gameplay videos before buying games. Plenty of “completed games” are trash and early access titles absolute gems. Also regardless, you’re buying incredibly complicated software that people sunk countless hours of labor into developing for pennies on the dollar so like whatever. If a game is bad I won’t play it. If it’s janky I will move on with my life.
Correction: Completed game under $20. 🧐
As long as the early access game in its current form is worth the sticker price than there is no issue.
Techtonica is early access and looks like it’s going to be amazing.
The real problem is old companies like EA and Bethesda releasing crap on Launch Day and expecting its customers to be its beta testers for the next couple of years while they slowly patch the game into a playable state. (Or not. Why should they care? They got your money.)
The only redeeming quality with Bethesda is they release mod tools. That’s also how all their bugs end up being fixed.
How about people spend their own money on whatever they want because it’s none of your business
Yep everyone just needs to slow their roll. I don’t even go for DLC, not part of the original game not buying it.
I have 10 times more full release fail buys than early access. While early access often costs half of a AAA title. So you better switch those images.
Preordering is a bigger issue than early access. At least with early access there is an existing game people can review.
Maybe instead we should push the revoke the law that forces you to buy early access games?
