Dead Island 2 which was first announced in 2014 is now released...

[mr.devolver]

Despite long years of struggle with complete changes of dev teams and the whole game, Covid-19, etc., Dead Island 2 which was first announced in 2014 was finally released in April 21, 2023.

Just saying...

[Zaidah]

I'd rather have a game that still gets more updates and content for 10 years than a game that gets finished sooner but is barebones and unbalanced.

You could argue that the "Alpha" tag is a bit weird, but at the same time, the other games that also get updated for a long time are either selling DLC (paradox games would be a good example) or are free-to-play game that have in-game store integrated. Otherwise, you have games that feel somewhat finished and polished but are mainly a copy-past of previously released games (call of duty, total war...).

[Shockwave]

Yeah but not on steam... doesn't count till it is released on steam :)

[TheChoccoBiccy09]

That’s really cool! Luckily, I don’t find dead island 2 very appealing and I am very patient man.
Plenty of other games to play while I wait for 7dtd to go gold.

[mr.devolver]

Originally posted by Zaidah:

I'd rather have a game that still gets more updates and content for 10 years than a game that gets finished sooner but is barebones and unbalanced.

You could argue that the "Alpha" tag is a bit weird, but at the same time, the other games that also get updated for a long time are either selling DLC (paradox games would be a good example) or are free-to-play game that have in-game store integrated. Otherwise, you have games that feel somewhat finished and polished but are mainly a copy-past of previously released games (call of duty, total war...).

How about a game which is 10 years in development and still barebones and unbalanced? Well, that's what you've got here.

I think you're confusing two different types of games

1) Games as a service that are actually complete gameplay-wise and receive continuous updates, such as Fallout 76, various battle-royale type of games, various free to play or even so called pay to win type of games with frequent but small and often paid content additions

2) Regular games which should eventually reach final state which is desired by both the gamers and devs alike, preferably sooner than later, but instead of reaching the final state, they are stuck in incomplete, Alpha phase of development for whatever reason for long years.

7 Days to Die obviously falls into the second category, so please do yourself a favor and stop lying to yourself by treating this game like a complete game with just small quality updates here and there, because that would be the first category and 7 Days to Die is not that type of a game, it was never intended to be that type of game, nor advertised as such.

[The Civillian]

Originally posted by mr.devolver:

Despite long years of struggle with complete changes of dev teams and the whole game, Covid-19, etc., Dead Island 2 which was first announced in 2014 was finally released in April 21, 2023.

Just saying...

Great.

So Dead Island 2 has 100% destructible buildings and terrain, and the ability to build buildings.

oh wait..

The Dead island series I see more as Left for dead style, which I do like. But I'll wait for steam version, I see no reason for 10 different launchers just because higher ups are greedy.

[Sterling]

Comparing apples to cotton candy here.

[Zaidah]

If you see the updates for 7dtd as "just small quality updates", then you're very biased and there is no point to argue anymore with you. If your issue is the time it takes anyway, then you shoud probably avoid games in alpha stage or wait for the full game to be released, if you don't trust the developpers to finish the game/achieve what you were expecting. I would understand the complaint if the game was abandonned mid-way, but that's not the case.

[Matt]

Originally posted by mr.devolver:

Despite long years of struggle with complete changes of dev teams and the whole game, Covid-19, etc., Dead Island 2 which was first announced in 2014 was finally released in April 21, 2023.

Just saying...

We will see if people are still playing Dead Island 2 in 10 years time, like people have been playing 7d2d for a decade, and still looking forward to updates and improvements to the game.

Most AAA games that get released are forgotten about within a few months of release, and yet you have 7d2d, still getting updated and improved yearly, and sometimes more often.

The only thing that will really change with 7d2d going full release, is better optimisation (which is something that actually does make me want it to release fully) and no more big updates or improvements.

Once the game goes gold (fully released) while there will be work still being done, it will not be the same that we've seen up until that point, and it might also mean any big updates would actually be DLC's and cost more money.

The game even though poorly optimised in my opinion, is still extremely playable, and fun, and i would say, puts a lot of fully released games over the past few years to shame, in terms of playability.

I would rather they take their time, then just rush to a full release, because people are impatient... those same people crying for it to release, will be the first people crying and spamming forums about all the issues that might result in a rushed release...

[mr.devolver]

Originally posted by Sterling:

Comparing apples to cotton candy here.

Yeah, sorry for comparing a finished game to a forever in Alpha game.

[ItaAndy]

Yet it sucks and it's only a 6hr game with no content.

[SylenThunder]

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