Can you muppets stop throwing away money on awful companies producing subpar games? ( lemmy.world )

conditional_soup , vor 5 Monaten

I mean, just do a little due diligence, Jesus. I've bought PalWorld, Planet Crafter, Traveler's Rest, and more in early access and had a blast with all of them. In fact, I'd say it's some of the best bang for my buck in the last ten years of gaming. I've also not bought early access games because the five minutes of due diligence suggested that it was a garbage game.

I particularly think it's fine with small, indie studios that don't have a lot of devs or resources. No way in fuck am I buying an early access AAA release.

Icalasari , vor 5 Monaten

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

tacosanonymous , vor 5 Monaten

If we could all just agree to not preorder, I’ll negotiate from there.

aard , vor 5 Monaten

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.

frezik , vor 5 Monaten

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.

SkyezOpen , vor 5 Monaten

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