So it's still half a year away?

[ingosupercute]

I kinda got mixed up thinking the game releases now. But from what I understand it was only the EA release and the game is not finished in terms of content and optimization? Anyone know this company's track record in remaining true to their goals? I need to know before getting my hopes up.

[Kalafiorek]

Hi! We don't know how long YAZS will remain in Early Access, but what I do know is that we are extremely dedicated to the project and work on it every day. While I understand that I am not in a position to be treated as completely impartial, you can trust us to get this game to its 1.0 form.

Our last major project (Fury Unleashed) was developed in early access for a long time, and it was fully released when it became feature complete, with an additional two years of post-release support
https://store.steampowered.com/app/465200/Fury_Unleashed/

Also, we've recently updated our other, 10-years old game here on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/257990/Oozi_Earth_Adventure/

[Buried in insanity]

Originally posted by ingosupercute:

I kinda got mixed up thinking the game releases now. But from what I understand it was only the EA release and the game is not finished in terms of content and optimization? Anyone know this company's track record in remaining true to their goals? I need to know before getting my hopes up. :kryska:

The devs dont seems to take them very serious but they stick to there games and finishes them aswellas give them post launch support + yet another zombie survivor is REALLY good. a lil small in content size but its hella fun and the already available content is very good and gives you a lot of option and an endless mode

[ingosupercute]

Originally posted by Buried in insanity:

a lil small in content size but its hella fun and the already available content is very good and gives you a lot of option and an endless mode

I guess there will be more inside after EA.
I just never play EA to not ruin my experience with an unfinished game.

[Buried in insanity]

Originally posted by ingosupercute:

Originally posted by Buried in insanity:

a lil small in content size but its hella fun and the already available content is very good and gives you a lot of option and an endless mode

I guess there will be more inside after EA. :ws_goodluck:
I just never play EA to not ruin my experience with an unfinished game.

i can only recommend the game rn you get a lot of fun outta it and you can jump back in with every content update

[Rabid Urko]

Fury Unleashed is awesome , and shows how this game will go as it develops.

Originally posted by ingosupercute:

Originally posted by Buried in insanity:

a lil small in content size but its hella fun and the already available content is very good and gives you a lot of option and an endless mode

I guess there will be more inside after EA. :ws_goodluck:
I just never play EA to not ruin my experience with an unfinished game.

Thats the trade off with an EA game you get to play it early, but everyone who buys in to EA needs to remember that its work in progress, and some dont remember that.

[Buried in insanity]

Originally posted by Rabid Urko:

Fury Unleashed is awesome , and shows how this game will go as it develops.

Originally posted by ingosupercute:

I guess there will be more inside after EA. :ws_goodluck:
I just never play EA to not ruin my experience with an unfinished game.

Thats the trade off with an EA game you get to play it early, but everyone who buys in to EA needs to remember that its work in progress, and some dont remember that.

also you help the developers with the money aswell as the feedback and have an inpact in the game development

[Foop]

Originally posted by ingosupercute:

I kinda got mixed up thinking the game releases now. But from what I understand it was only the EA release and the game is not finished in terms of content and optimization? Anyone know this company's track record in remaining true to their goals? I need to know before getting my hopes up. :kryska:

This game is released for sale.

If it's not what you want in a game then check back at another time but what you pay for today is what you're getting and there is no binding contract that says you'll get anything more other than a promise that can legally be broken.

Games are either released for sale or not released for sale, no reason to make it complicated. EA means nothing at all to players, it's a term used for financial reasons.

[ingosupercute]

Originally posted by Buried in insanity:

i can only recommend the game rn you get a lot of fun outta it and you can jump back in with every content update
[...]
also you help the developers with the money aswell as the feedback and have an inpact in the game development

Sorry dude, but there is no point in trying to tell me that because I am fundamentally opposed to buying EA games. In fact I'd totally hate to keep jumping back to see what's new again and again. I want the full package, play the crap out of it for a few days, and then move on.

In my opinion EA is a blight of modern game development. And one can argument in several ways about the money: On the one hand if a studio is struggeling they can get part of the money now to make due. But the question has to be asked if they were prepared enough to program a game if they can't even survive the development phase financially. But a unit sold now does not sell later, so it's only moving the time of the monetary income. And then there is the risk of your unfinished game leaving not a good impression on people, which reduces the chances for performing well at launch.

I'm not talking about this specific developer, I don't know them. I'm talking about the general situation.

Obviously EA also enabled a lot of people who really shouldn't be making games to cash in on empty promises and never complete their work due to a lack of success and underestimating the difficulty of their task. I really, really, reaaaaaally dislike the whole concept of buying into a game as tester.

So yeah - we're sitting on completely different points of view I'm afraid.

[ingosupercute]

Originally posted by Foop:

Games are either released for sale or not released for sale, no reason to make it complicated. EA means nothing at all to players, it's a term used for financial reasons.

That is incorrect. It means the game is still being worked on and not in the form of future DLC, some core contents are missing. Often times the devs also tweak around their balancing, system settings, performance or user interface to accomodate for wishes from the EA phase.

EA does not mean nothing, it means you are paying to be a tester. Normally someone should be paying you to test their upcoming game.

Oh and it also means nothing is final. All subject to change.

[windezz]

It's buyers beware, sometimes you get a good EA like Larian's BG3, and other times you get a dud, like The day Before...although that one has gone up in flames even before it could hit EA.

I don't think EA is entirely bad - Larian did some great QoL polishing and mechanics changes throughout BG3 EA based on player feedback, and barring unexpected circumstances, they'll deliver an outstanding product soon. Project Zomboid has been in EA since 2013, and the devs are still adding new content via regular updates to it; it's more finished than Diablo 4 (or any other "finished" GaaS pos) will ever be at this point.

FWIW, EA is where you let others spend their money to decide for yourself whether the investment is worthwhile, and if it lowers the financial bar for some aspiring/indie dev teams to release a gem, then I'm all for it. But at the end of the day, it's still buyers beware - don't like this EA, or EA products in general? Don't spend money on it. There's no stopping this trend, else we as consumers would've pushed back to minimize microtransactions and live services too a long time ago.

[BlackjackGT]

It's like any early access title. If you don't want to help make the game better by hurling (hopefully) constructive criticism and suggestion, then don't play an EA game until it exits early access.

I would say from my experience having bought dozens of early access games -- including several abandoned early during early access - don't kid yourself into thinking Early Access games are "polished and bug free" at version 1.0 when they exit early access. It often just means the devs ran out of revenue to continue development (which I've and others learned the hard way with many early access games).