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If it's not had an update or bug patches in 2 yrs, then yeah I would pass on getting it. I would just hit the follow button just in case they become active with updates again.
But then again you may have to research a little about the game.
How big is the dev team? If it's just one guy working on it then yeah it's gonna be a real slow process.
Are the dev's from one of the countries currently at war? That could explain why there's been no progress.
What state is the game in? Would you almost consider it finished?
I have seen some games that are 10+ yrs in early access and I would consider them pretty much finished and playable without any issues. Why are they still there...lord knows. 7 days to die comes to mind....all the devs seem to be doing is small bug fixes and not really adding any new content to the game play, for me i would consider this a finished project.
That a whole decade.old at this point.
A whole 10 years out of date.
Not that it was a good argument back when it was brand new since it doesn't seem to realize there are 3 states for any early accesx game.. Finished/Completed, Cancelled/Discontinued, and IN DEVELOPMENT.
the IN DEVELOPMENT category is where you find most of the early access games. DO you know which category is the most sparsely populated OP?
The Cancelled/Discontinued category.
Doom (2016) hasn't had an update since 2018.
RDR2 hasn't gotten an update in nearly a year.
Rise of the Tomb Raider since 2022.
Firewatch not since Dec 21, 2021
Granted these aren't Early Access titles, but they are all within their own right to be fully playable despite not having been updated for several years.
Does the Early Access game that you're looking at buying need to be updated? Is it playable? Broken? What is being said in the game's forum? Reviews? Video gameplay footage?
Maybe it's a game that is pretty much as far as the developers wish to take it and they just haven't "pushed the button" to release it from Early Access.
Every year, for three years now, they say next year is full release. Every three or four months they say the big update is coming then when that time is up, they say the big update is coming in another quarter. This has been going on for five years now.
some early access games have been in early access for 10+ years now
According to the above article 75% never get past EA.
The article you linked is nearly 10 years old and EA wasn't even a year old when it was written. So of course most of the EA games weren't finished when they were less then a year old......
You can't use articles that old for anything, its not relevant
Per tFA,
Find a less stale statistic.
Since the recomendation is to look at an EA game at the actual state of the game. In that regard EA games that haven't been updated in a long time are the safest choices one can make.
I personally treat them as fully released games, only buying if I'm happy with all the features it has. And consider anything coming forward as free DLC.
"Get instant access and start playing; get involved with this game as it DEVELOPS".
"This Early Access game is NOT COMPLETE and MAY OR MAY NOT CHANGE FURTHER. If YOU are not excited to play this game in its CURRENT STATE, then YOU should WAIT to see IF the game progresses further in DEVELOPMENT".
(It does not get any clearer than that).
Is waiting a problem?
Secondly adding an EAG to the cart and clicking confirm is a voluntary action, not a mandatory one, therefore you receive the product as is at the point in time you clicked confirm.
And finally my personal experience with EAG's has being very positive. Divinity Original Sin 1, 2, Baldur's Gate 3, Darkest Dungeon, Slay the Spire, Solasta, Colony Ship and others. I also have five more in my library which are due to release in 2024.
Only one failed, "Malus" and yet not a loss as what was available was playable and is re-playable for a low cost.
The few times I bought an Early Access title, I did so knowing it could stop development the very next day. If a person is not willing to accept that very possible outcome, they shouldn't buy them to begin with. But then again, those few times I did buy an EAG it was because I wanted to play the game as it was at that point. Everything that got added after my purchase was just bonus to me.
Even back then there where already (indie) games out there which got financed like "ea" titles (not sure, but I think project zomboid started around 2008) so those games where not really relevant for that article either, or some of the finished games started way before other Plattforms used that term.
Also the % when looking at the totality of steam is goign to look much worse than you'd think the % would suggest. This is because as steam has grown each year more and more games get rleased. As such a large % of those game are going to be in Early Access. meaning that even if as games get released out of early access, literally 5 other titles replace it the same day. Meaning that if you look at this % now, its going to look much worse. Which make sense because more titles are being released in Early Access now, than Steam released IN GENERAL a mere 5 years ago.
https://steamdb.info/stats/releases/
Meaning this number will never get 'better' because more and more games get released into Early Access every year which outpaces games that are being released out of Early Access simply by sheer numbers
This "oh my god 45% of early access games are never release' is utterly meaningless because so many games get released this number will never hit 100% even if every single game pre 2023 was magically brought out of Early Access
As of 1/23/2024 110 games out of 770 have been Early Access games. A full 15% of steam games are released in Early Access. And we haven't even gotten out of January yet.
I really wish people would take two seconds to think about things. People like the hack who wrote that article.
Seriously. COnsidering the ONLY THING that stands between a game staying in Early Access and getting a full release is the developer's interest/desire to continue development. LIke you take anty early access game and no matter what the current state is. the dev of that game could wake up tomorrow and say "Screw it." and just slap V1.0 on whatever the current build, is, remove the early access flag and boom the game has made it through early access and is complete.
They can do that. There is literally no repurcussion or anything stopping them.. That a developer chooses to keep it in early access says that they have an interest and desire to bring the game further towards their idea vision of said game.