Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

I think that the "Early Access" practice needs to be abolished.

It is dumb and it gives NOTHING in terms of better a game.

I treat it like the "Free bonus" in gambling.

Also, why early access when there are so many broken games on release day? So, you can have even more bugs?

Ah and it ruins physical editions because the publisher does not want to put the whole game if they are doing the early access. I mean why make "early access", when some normal physical copies (that are playable) may leak, and the shmucks that bought the early access start crying?

@Zuljaras I can’t imagine there’s too much unpopular about that opinion!

There will be some people who want to try and blast through it, especially to get the platinum, before anyone else I guess.

I pre-ordered Two Point Museum (a very rare occurrence for me) as I enjoy the series and the price wasn’t silly. It had early access but I was too busy with another game to bother with it.

@Zuljaras I have to agree. I play PC a lot and I’m tired of games coming to “early access”. There’s a lot of risk coming with that and I’ve had a couple of games where the creators abandon their project. I just stopped buying EA at that point.

@Zuljaras I’m with you on the early access. I understand the anticipation of a release in some cases, but a few days is hardly worth it to me. Especially, as you say, when you often get a glitchy experience before the standard day 1 patches. And in the worst case scenario, you get a gut-punch where the official release and subsequent patches devastate your save and progress from the early access, as happened to all those poor players with Star Wars Outlaws.

Of course, I’m probably not a good judge of the value of early access because for the vast majority of games I’m going to wait for a sale anyway, so I’m buying many months after launch.