Users Steam may not be familiar with the name of the game Early Access . Early Access is a program launched by Steam in March 2013 ago, where the program is an opportunity for developers, especially indie developers to develop their game is still ' unfinished ', as well as provide access for players to try to direct these games.
Model publishing Early Access is of course ' win-win ' for developers. Developers gain revenue and increase the number of players, where players have become one of the feedback principal during the game in the development towards a ' full release '.
As a developer, do testing game sometimes takes time and resources. Early Access, enables developers find problems that are found by the player in a large-scale development.
- indecendence
Not finished-finished, expensive price, a lot of bugs, even ignored.
Dilansi of gamesindustry.biz, the data in 2014 showed at least a 25% early game access that has led to a full release. The data seems to predict trends Early Access is happening now.
Early Access so many games have sprung up in various genres. However, most of these games many of which do not show signs of immediate release, despite being located in Early Access for many years as the game Dayz and Rust example.
Some of them ignored by developers or even fall into the category of full release, but with the condition of the unfinished game, games such potentially Godus, Folktale and Guardians of Orion for example. Early Access Some games even have little content or they have a lot of bugs, but already priced so high.
Popularized by Minecraft game.
Early Access Model was first popularized by Mojang as the developer of Minecraft , because while still in the Alpha stage, players can buy and access the game Minecraft. Although still in alpha stage, the main elements of Minecraft is already available; mining materials and building something from these materials.
Due to the popularity of Minecraft as well, Gaming PC world began to lead to the same way, which makes the game into the stage of early access builds prior to the full release.
Although Minecraft is indeed successful in Early Access stage, but some other games that follow the same way, it seems less managed to get the same results with Minecraft. This can be caused because these games are built in mechanisms that must be resolved first so that the game can be played fun.
Steam has been warned .
Parties themselves are very supportive Steam Early Access program is because it is the game development community should involve players and so the results according to the developer and the community desire or even higher.
Steam also explained through discussion forums , that the game Early Access is not pre-order , so there is no guarantee of steam that Early Access games can achieve full release or not.
Many of the players who is already fed up with the early game access and a similar business model, they state that should the posted price is the price for beta-testing . But from the perspective of the developer, it is certainly not fair, because when the full release later, players who have bought when early access do not need to spend money again.
Perhaps there is still hope in the future for Early Access.
Of course not everything is so, some games that have ever been in the Early stage Accesss also managed to present the game rich in content the game and get a lot of positive reviews from existing players or new players.
Popular indie games like Do not Starve, Kerbal Space Program, The Long Dark, Prison Architect, Divinity: Original Sin 2 and a few other games managed to 'graduate' from the Early Access period and bring the game are so qualified for players to enjoy.
This of course depends on the developer and us as a player, taking the example game Subanutica andRust , are two games that today is still in the stage of Early Access after many years, but because there is good communication between developers and players, the game is almost each month get new content in order to achieve full releasse.
What do you think about the game Early Access?
its like pubg