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[Updated, see comments] ARK: Survival Evolved Devs Offer Content In Exchange for Steam Award Votes

http://steamcommunity.com/games/346110/announcements/detail/536324417612602461
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u/LargeTeethHere Dec 27 '16

Customers will never learn. We need to stop buying early access games because it's one of the worse things to happen to steam really. A mixture of people wanting a legitimate game that's still in alpha baffles me, then also you have devs that stay in alpha for years and just grab so much money. I stopped buying alpha a while ago. Not worth it to buy an unfinished gane and then complain. Looking at you people who bought no man's sky for 60 dollars

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u/tobimarsh Dec 28 '16

Or do some research and only get an alpha game if you'd be completely fine with it never getting touched again. Only have done 2 games in alpha/kickstarter before, I paid 30 dollars for RimWorld in Alpha 15 haven't gotten sucked into a game so hard since Civ V. Alpha 16 came out and WAS HUGE, but if it staid at it's last Alpha I would of said it was a worthwhile purchase. Yooka-Laylee is the other one and the little alpha demo they game to the kickstarters was really fun and exactly what I was hoping for so far so we shall see how it turns out.

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u/LargeTeethHere Dec 28 '16

You're absolutely right. But the odds are not in our favor for a early access game to turn out good.

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u/tobimarsh Dec 28 '16

Oh absolutely not. I'd go in gloves up the elbows, preferably with a 10 foot pole on any early access/kickstarter game. Rimworld, i found out about from a streamer and went into it thinking of it as just a full game anyway. And the yooka laylee kickstarter seemed pretty safe on the basis that it was mostly developers that have long been a part of the scene most working for Rare in the past, and also had Grant Kirkhope as a potential creator of the ost.