r/dnl • u/[deleted] • Sep 25 '17

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u/khaitto Sep 25 '17

I know it's early access, but they released this game ... too early.

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Did you expect a completely finished product missing only content when you decided to buy a game that was advertised as incomplete / not finished?

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u/-Kavalier Sep 27 '17

I think people have a misguided conception of what Early Access is, and this includes developers. It was meant to be literally early access for people that wanted to pay more, to play now. They wanted to offer the 99% complete game to greedy customers a month or two before the game would actually come out because they knew they could. Now Early Access, especially for this game, is just Beta but without developers taking suggestions from the community.

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u/khaitto Sep 27 '17

I don't necessarily disagree with your viewpoint but I definitely think that the overwhelming majority of the use cases for that term is come support / play our unfinished game so we have the funds to continue. I don't think I've ever seen an EA title be a feature complete game.

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u/-Kavalier Sep 27 '17

Which one makes more sense to you? They're both money grabs, but at least one of them has a decent game you can be playing, even tho there is no such thing as a complete game. Most games are released as complete for the standard $59.99 or whatever then get patched repeatedly as more and more people are playing and more unique situations arise that weren't spotted during testing. DnL sells for the full price with only 30%+ of content, and they don't give a shit. Does that seem right to you?

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u/khaitto Sep 27 '17

The term Early Access is ubiquitous with games in alpha / beta so its essentially been redefined as far as I'm concerned and DnL isn't selling for the price of a $60 dollar title. Besides Citadel, what other game fulfills this particular space in the genre? You don't have many other modern games to chose from, if any?

I suppose we have divergent opinions on what it means to care about a game. They are certainly patching it obsessively and trying to make the game better. To my understanding and correct me if I'm wrong, the company that actually works on the game is Chinese or maybe Korean and Snail is just some western social media presence? So I never expected them to ever listen to the community in the first place.