![]() ![]() That means there are more opportunities than ever to buy a game with little chance of living up to its promises, and even the occasional scam. Why this matters: As EEDAR’s Walker points out, the number of Early Access games has exploded over the last year, reaching a peak of 39 new releases in July. As studio head Tim Schafer explained, the project was losing money, and “it became clear that this was looking like a year and a half of production instead of five or so.” That’s what happened recently with Double Fine, which released “ version 1.0” of Early Access game Spacebase DF-9 without many of its planned features. ![]() In other cases, players can become stranded as funding dries up and developers lose interest in chasing bad investments. But those are just the ideal scenarios, where lots of sustained interest can fund lengthy development cycles. Some examples, such as Kerbal Space Program and DayZ, have become hits despite having no final release date in sight. An unfinished Early Access game isn’t necessarily a bad thing. ![]()
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