Are they allowed to post an update news about the update being delayed?

[Xantanash]

Steam has implemented a thing where if an Early Access game does not update its game for X amount of time, steam tells you. So you don't buy an abandoned EA title.

Now I know 7 days is out of EA, but it creates a precedent for EA titles to be able to just post empty updates news so they don't get flagged as such.

I've never seen an empty update news in the past, but that might just be me.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, have you guys seen this before?

I also want to make it clear to mods that this is not a post whining about delays, it's a genuine precedent-creating concern.

[Dwarf_Bastard]

With all these whatever versions beta and stable, they're fine. You can change 4 code lines and have it as an update for your game. This Steam new thing is a joke tbh.

[SylenThunder]

Originally posted by Xantanash:

Steam has implemented a thing where if an Early Access game does not update its game for X amount of time, steam tells you. So you don't buy an abandoned EA title.

Now I know 7 days is out of EA, but it creates a precedent for EA titles to be able to just post empty updates news so they don't get flagged as such.

I've never seen an empty update news in the past, but that might just be me.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, have you guys seen this before?

I also want to make it clear to mods that this is not a post whining about delays, it's a genuine precedent-creating concern.

Fun fact.

The developers "left EA" with the 1.0 release, but still have not finished the game. (Something that has become pretty common with EA titles lately.)

I am curious what the criteria is that you think has been violated. Since TFP just pushed an update yesterday, and the last update before that was February 12th. So literally one day short of two months. The update before that was on December 10th, which makes a gap of two months and two days.

[RatBoggles]

The developers "left EA" with the 1.0 release, but still have not finished the game.
haha

[SylenThunder]

Originally posted by RatBoggles:

The developers "left EA" with the 1.0 release, but still have not finished the game.
haha

Yep. I used to use Empyrion as a perfect example of what not to do, because they were one of the first developers to do this. Now everyone apparently is doing it.

[xycotta]

Stellaris is still getting major updates and system changes

[Scourn]

Originally posted by SylenThunder:

Originally posted by RatBoggles:

The developers "left EA" with the 1.0 release, but still have not finished the game.
haha

Yep. I used to use Empyrion as a perfect example of what not to do, because they were one of the first developers to do this. Now everyone apparently is doing it.

none of them want the nice note saying its abandoned on their games in early access to hurt their sales so they all just push them out to 1.0 and keep updating. That way if its not financially viable anymore they can still claim its finished and not have that line in their store saying its abandoned.

[Xantanash]

Originally posted by SylenThunder:

Fun fact.

The developers "left EA" with the 1.0 release, but still have not finished the game. (Something that has become pretty common with EA titles lately.)

I am curious what the criteria is that you think has been violated. Since TFP just pushed an update yesterday, and the last update before that was February 12th. So literally one day short of two months. The update before that was on December 10th, which makes a gap of two months and two days.

I was not saying they did violate anything. I was just concerned about setting a precedent. And like you said the game is out of early access so it would not be eligible for the tag.
But it looks like others are saying it's already been done and circumvented by other developers.