Isn't Funcom a AAA publisher

[Enola Gay]

Why exactly do they need to use Early access, that does not inspire any sort of confidence they have in their product.

So my question is why does a multimillion dollar company need to use the early access model to fund their games development?

[Chitoloco]

So, Funcom makes the game available for people to access early and this is a bad thing?

[LupisVolk]

What is Early Access?

Get immediate access to games that are being developed with the community's involvement. These are games that evolve as you play them, as you give feedback, and as the developers update and add content.

[Chitoloco]

Originally posted by LupisVolk:

What is Early Access?

Get immediate access to games that are being developed with the community's involvement. These are games that evolve as you play them, as you give feedback, and as the developers update and add content.

It's like throwing pearls to swine man. These people don't appreciate anything.

[W. Adam Clarke]

Because Funcom is a AA publisher- that awkward state between Indie and "Having Ubisoft/EA/BethesdaSquareEnix money."

[Nutcutt3r]

Royalty... a sum of money paid to a patentee for the use of a patent or to an author or composer for each copy of a book sold or for each public performance of a work.?

[synchrotron]

Early access is a way develpers can get an injection of cash into the project without having a finished polished product. The warning is there early access is early access I do not think funcom is a multimillion dollar company.

[YouTube.com/StoneLegion]

Ugh Funcom is not that rich and I would say is more of a AA then a AAA company. Their titles been mostly small even though they have had big early hits like AoC original release they kept their ground and keep working on titles even if their long gone. You can trust them to keep backing a product as long as there is people there and even then they still do it just slower if the flow of money is next to nothing. Anarchy Online is a perfect example.

[Meltdown]

Originally posted by Padpaw:

Why exactly do they need to use Early access, that does not inspire any sort of confidence they have in their product.

So my question is why does a multimillion dollar company need to use the early access model to fund their games development?

Um they aren't a multimillion dollar company. They are a small successful company. For example multimillion dollar companies have teams of 100 or so devs working on a variety of games, Funcom has a few small teams working on a couple of games. For example the AoC team went and did TSW while working on the side on the AoC expansion, now they are working on getting Exiles done before they go back and do more on TSW. They actually mention this several times in the dev videos. They aren't some huge conglomerate though like EA or UBI. They are more like Bethesda was around the time of Daggerfall.

[Overheadace]

funcom is AA ? not going to lie i think thats the first time i heard that term. I usually hear AAA or indie companies ( not bashing or anything i just didnt know )

[LupisVolk]

Originally posted by Prismbox:

It's like throwing pearls to swine man. These people don't appreciate anything.

Or talking to a wall. It's like these "people" refuse to fathom what the spirit of Early Access is.

[B.A.D]

Funcom have had some bad losses on previous big titles, and I can understand that maybe investors aren't willing to 100% fund a new big title.

[Zarakaï]

Originally posted by Overheadace:

funcom is AA ? not going to lie i think thats the first time i heard that term. I usually hear AAA or indie companies :happy_creep: ( not bashing or anything i just didnt know )

Yes AA is a thing, you know, all those games cheaper ( 20-40 euros ) than big budget AAA games ? Like Demonicon, Technomancer, pretty much any Focus Interactive game, etc. They have bigger budget than small indies, but also small teams compared to AAA companies, so the quality is generaly NOT top notch but they can take more risks and catter to their fans.

And that's exactly what Funcom does.

[loganjamesalex]

early access is all about feedback. thats why the game looks as nice as it is, they are AAA devs who have a nice library of finished games they know the best way to make a survival game is early access so thats what they are doing. has nothing to do with $$ and everything to do with making the best game possible. all the more reason to buy it now

[Frank Drebin]

Did actually anyone read the credits ingame? Its just 20 men/women crew working on this. Its not EA working with 400 ppl on a title with 150kk$ budget. Can't belive what some ppl. expect here from these early days on Early Accses.

[or10nsharkfin]

Originally posted by Wylander:

Did actually anyone read the credits ingame? Its just 20 men/women crew working on this. Its not EA working with 400 ppl on a title with 150kk$ budget. Can't belive what some ppl. expect here from these early days on Early Accses.

There's what this guy says, and also the fact that Funcom itself has two semi-popular MMOs (Age of Conan and Secret World) which aren't really making a whole lot of money as it is.

Am I forgetting any other game that they make?