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You dont get to decide what *I* might want to buy though.
It's that easy. If you value finished games, buy your games when they're finished.
User choice to ignore the big blue warning box.
You've already made threads on this;
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/3135045355776071773/
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/5077247980467788448/
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/3833171151462599935/
for me, early access and the old Green Light were one of the best things steam did.
Really. What's the point of making a thread if you are not going to participate in the discussion?
Early access is NOT a guarantee that the game will be finished.
There is a BIG BLUE BOX with a warning telling you that you are buying the game for its CURRENT state, as it may not receive further updates.
For the performance since as you can see they want to censor early access games which conflict with their own interest.
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/4629230764944314351/
On that note, I think I found the anthem of these people.
The EA market is a way some people choose to promote because they want to try to ever so slightly try to tug the gaming industry blanket back toward where it should be, so to speak. You are completely in your right to ignore those games if you don't want to do this but what exactly made you in charge of deciding what others do? If people are good with sacrificing their next day coffee in an unlikely attempt of helping create something good then let them be.
Including Minecraft, the original EA game (got that one back at Alpha)
Well, there's serialized stories that release in magazines over time.
And back when they were still a physical thing, there were any number of comic books that I subscribed to that ended up stopping before they actually 'completed' their story.
And I'm pretty sure that there've been people who subscribed to pay cable channels (back before streaming) for a particular original series, only for it to never finish or get canceled.
I don't buy early access games, and even as someone who doesn't touch them I'm annoyed by how sloppy and unprofessional looking the whole practice is in many cases.
How many other stores do you see doing this?
"We sell tested foods and pants, and food that hasn't been tested yet and pants that aren't finished."
"Here's an app store. Many of these aren't finished and don't really belong in a store, but we're selling them anyway."
Having a store is as much about vetting products as it is selling them. Simply slapping a label onto something and saying "no quality test, no guarantees, no refunds if it doesn't live up to its claims" just isn't good enough. You're not just a peddler of any random crap that comes your way, you're also the last link of quality assurance.
Meeting criticisms of how the practice lacks safety nets and minimum criteria with "well just don't buy it then" isn't good enough either. It's not that it shouldn't exist, it's how it's done.
Because the end result is that if you want, you can deliberately set something up to look good, entice buyers and make wild claims, with no intent whatsoever of finishing, collect your money and abandon it and see no repercussion despite broken promises to customers who get no refund.
You can simply lie from day one and earn money doing it, that extreme end of the deal is what the problem is. Would you really want to set up a store that allows for such sloppy practice?
If steam weren't a well established platform and did this from day one, they'd be a forgotten footnote in history today.
Early access in itself is a good enough idea. Implementing it with 0% guarantees for the customer of any sort, however.. please. You earn money from the sale, take some responsibility and have some pride in your brand.
If you don't see the problem or a need for some minimum protections/guarantees (like a refund when it's clear they just phoned it in and quit when they no longer felt like working) and think "just don't buy it" is the final answer, you're probably an idiot who missed the point. Don't quit your day job, unless it's store management.
So, imo only buy an EA game based on the state that game is in. And not based on whatever future roadmap shows.