I'm honestly a bit confused.

[the thing.]

If the 'sale' was the EA price, then like, how does that work? Typically, devs make the game less expensive after EA, since it's no longer EA, and in turn, is finished (in the majority). I'm genuinely confused, because early acsess is always more expensive. Take a look at valheim. It's been EA for like, 4 - 3 years now, maybe even more.

[Shy]

brother, it makes perfect sense to me. You buy an EA game to support the ongoing development while getting an unfinished product with more bugs and less features than the full game.

Why would the EA price be more than the full game price? It makes no sense pal.

If you can't afford it, don't get it, but it's certainly worth full price.

[the thing.]

Originally posted by Shy:

brother, it makes perfect sense to me. You buy an EA game to support the ongoing development while getting an unfinished product with more bugs and less features than the full game.

Why would the EA price be more than the full game price? It makes no sense pal.

If you can't afford it, don't get it, but it's certainly worth full price.

Does the name 'Early acsess' not sound like it should be more expensive? You're buying the game before it's fully finished.

[BleppyBoo]

Originally posted by gianttoastman:

Originally posted by Shy:

brother, it makes perfect sense to me. You buy an EA game to support the ongoing development while getting an unfinished product with more bugs and less features than the full game.

Why would the EA price be more than the full game price? It makes no sense pal.

If you can't afford it, don't get it, but it's certainly worth full price.

Does the name 'Early acsess' not sound like it should be more expensive? You're buying the game before it's fully finished.

No? You're essentially beta testing the game, giving feedback of what works and what doesn't so that devs can finish the game

[Shoot Up Your Own House]

Originally posted by gianttoastman:

Originally posted by Shy:

brother, it makes perfect sense to me. You buy an EA game to support the ongoing development while getting an unfinished product with more bugs and less features than the full game.

Why would the EA price be more than the full game price? It makes no sense pal.

If you can't afford it, don't get it, but it's certainly worth full price.

Does the name 'Early acsess' not sound like it should be more expensive? You're buying the game before it's fully finished.

it makes sense either way, it is completely up to the developers on how they decide to market their game, also to understand why it makes sense for it to be cheaper for full release, even though you are getting it early, would you pay full price for a half eaten cookie? would you be ok paying more for less? if the end product is more chock filled with content and more polished would you not find it fair that it's value should also increase? if you spent years working on your own project and wanted the support of others would you really want to ask them for an inflated price just so that you can release at a smaller one to everyone?

[the thing.]

Originally posted by Shoot Up Your Own House:

Originally posted by gianttoastman:

Does the name 'Early acsess' not sound like it should be more expensive? You're buying the game before it's fully finished.

it makes sense either way, it is completely up to the developers on how they decide to market their game, also to understand why it makes sense for it to be cheaper for full release, even though you are getting it early, would you pay full price for a half eaten cookie? would you be ok paying more for less? if the end product is more chock filled with content and more polished would you not find it fair that it's value should also increase? if you spent years working on your own project and wanted the support of others would you really want to ask them for an inflated price just so that you can release at a smaller one to everyone?

I mean yeah, but look at the stereotypical dev with an early acsess game.

[Bookhead]

Big publishers turned EA around saying "hey look at this! you get something extra! now pay us more!" when originally it was supposed to be a "hey! support us now, and we'll give this game to you for less because WE HAVE NO ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ MONEY TO INVEST IN THIS GAME" and a lot of the latter failed. This is one of the indie companies that did not fail. You are comparing a company being backed by millions of dollars with corporate deadlines etc to a bunch of smelly nerds in their tiny ass apartments ... or whatever.

In short. It's because they are indie.

[the thing.]

Originally posted by Bookhead:

Big publishers turned EA around saying "hey look at this! you get something extra! now pay us more!" when originally it was supposed to be a "hey! support us now, and we'll give this game to you for less because WE HAVE NO ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ MONEY TO INVEST IN THIS GAME" and a lot of the latter failed. This is one of the indie companies that did not fail. You are comparing a company being backed by millions of dollars with corporate deadlines etc to a bunch of smelly nerds in their tiny ass apartments ... or whatever.

In short. It's because they are indie.

ah, okay then. That makes more sense.

[darkblade]

Its a fair price for a good game

[MaGicBush]

Literally every game I have bought in EA ends more expensive after release... At least at first for a few months until sales. Not sure what your on about. As a game gets closer to release there's generally more features and work done so it makes sense to raise the price as it's worth more.

[Shy]

Originally posted by gianttoastman:

Originally posted by Shy:

brother, it makes perfect sense to me. You buy an EA game to support the ongoing development while getting an unfinished product with more bugs and less features than the full game.

Why would the EA price be more than the full game price? It makes no sense pal.

If you can't afford it, don't get it, but it's certainly worth full price.

Does the name 'Early acsess' not sound like it should be more expensive? You're buying the game before it's fully finished.

Cope, mate.

Buying something before it's fully finished does not mean you'd pay more

Why would anyone pay more for an unfinished product?

You either pay full price for the full game, or invent a time machine and go pay half price for half a game. It's literally that simple.


Using your own logic, I could charge you $400 for a block of wood, telling you that I'll turn it into a beautiful sculpture, if I only had the funding. If i also said it'd be cheaper once it's finished why would you ever pay for "early access"?

[ULTRA]

Was this an honest attempt at reasoning, OP? What about Valheim? Lol? It's not finished yet and it's on sale. Do you really think it will be $10 when they pinch it off in 3 or 4 years?

[the thing.]

We must be in entirely different worlds bro, istg every early access game I've had has been more expensive before it finishes. Also why the hell is it pronounced ack - sess when you spell it access? That's just Ack - ess. Sometimes I hate english. Suprised that the americans didn't fix that one.

[Masamune27858]

let me put this to bed. the state of the game is what matters. early access to a finished and wanted game, yea thats worth it, your the first to get to play.
early access for 2 level demo sized version of what they expect in 5 years of work is the type of early access this game had. so no, the final product is now out, and it finally gets to go to its intended price.
your not getting access to a game others dont have, its called early access by steam, thats the only reason. their lucrative slogan department must had come up with that, becuase its not actually early access, its just what the program that steam has for the devs is called. it used to be called green light. like its got the go ahead to be a game but its not their yet. probably better name actually, its more honest to the idea.

[the thing.]

Originally posted by Masamune27858:

let me put this to bed. the state of the game is what matters. early access to a finished and wanted game, yea thats worth it, your the first to get to play.
early access for 2 level demo sized version of what they expect in 5 years of work is the type of early access this game had. so no, the final product is now out, and it finally gets to go to its intended price.
your not getting access to a game others dont have, its called early access by steam, thats the only reason. their lucrative slogan department must had come up with that, becuase its not actually early access, its just what the program that steam has for the devs is called. it used to be called green light. like its got the go ahead to be a game but its not their yet. probably better name actually, its more honest to the idea.

Incrorrect. The logic I'm using is 1: You're paying MORE money for a game that's intended to release later. 2: You're paying more money to support the devs, and sure, at that rate, decrease or increase the price. It doesn't matter.

[ULTRA]

Originally posted by gianttoastman:

We must be in entirely different worlds bro, istg every early access game I've had has been more expensive before it finishes. Also why the hell is it pronounced ack - sess when you spell it access? That's just Ack - ess. Sometimes I hate english. Suprised that the americans didn't fix that one.

Ever heard of the Roman Empire and the Latin language?

Also, speaking of the Latin language, again, if Valheim gets any cheaper when it releases then I'm the Pope. Do you have some example of a game that got cheaper when it exited early access...?