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No need for the early access rather just have the finished product. Looking forward to this game watched it a lot on Twitch and they have had some good events. I know it will not match the PC version but as long as the core gameplay is good that's what is most important.

Have no clue why people want early access to unfinished and broken video games. Don't want to see the consoles move to this.

Can't we just wait until it's finished? I honestly don't see the point of Early Access

Early Access has its advantages and disadvantages. I don't think it is necessarily always a good/bad thing and depends on the game, the state of it etc. With a game like Ark, there are a mix of positives and negatives but its not the type of game that has a specific shelf life like many others - its not like you play a campaign once or twice and then move on to the next game.
I think of it as a bit more than a Beta test. By the time it is released officially, it will be in a much better state, more stable and with features etc that the developers probably wouldn't have envisioned but add significant improvement because of the feedback by the 'early access' community. It could mean the difference between a 5/6 score and an 8/9 score on release.
Its not just stress testing the network. Obviously the negatives are that you are playing an unfinished and inferior game that no doubt will have things that could cause frustration until they are updated/fixed.

Personally I dont want to pay for a game that is basically in alpha stage. People complain about preorders and Season Passes being money grabs but Early Access programs are just as bad. Basically we are PAYING to test an unfinished games when usually testers are paid to do the exact same thing. Im not fan of Early Access but to each his own.

I think its ok for PC gaming to do its own thing and early access is one of those things. I just want to chill in my chair with a controller and the finished product and I'm willing to pay more and wait longer.

Looking at the 2016 slate of games, I could care less about playing a broken game. Maybe if there was nothing else, but that's not the case.

The problem I have with early access is that by the time the game "officially" launches, I will be finished playing it more than likely. Unless it is some once a generation genre defining masterpiece, I am not gonna stick around and play it that long. For me it is better to play the finished product, so I get to enjoy it at its best and not be burn out on it before it even gets to a stable and 100 percent playable game. I'll pass on early access bullsquat.

The point of early access is to find the thing's that are broken before the game release's also it give's you two week's early access when the finished game is released. I would pay £4.99 just the month a game come's out i'm looking forward to and to me 2 week's early access is worth £5 any day. Nobody say's you have to pay for it every month, to me the option for early access would be nice I don't really see the problem. Would you not like to play The Division 2 week's early for example? All you would have to do is pay for early access that one month.

Is this the early access title? I read it 5 times and it still doesn't make any sense.

I have the early access on my XB1 but I'd really rather have it on PS4. The system's simply more powerful and I think the frame rate and resolution will be better. I love early access myself because it gives developers feedback on how WE play the game and not just how QA testers play the game. It also helps iron out scaling issues especially where lots of users hit the servers at once. For example, right now only 70 users at a time can be logged in to a single server. But there's no log in queue so it's a retry button mash to get in during busy times. Also, right now some people are building bases on top of spawn points, which are essentially cages for new players because you don't have authority to open the front gate of the walls. These are just a few things I'm sure will be resolved before the game is released, but if they didn't do pre-release, they probably never would have found these to be a problem. And really they need console because console chat is radically different than PC chat. As it is, chat on XB1 is unusable; they need really good public voice chat. Not true on PC where everyone has a keyboard, so it wouldn't be a glaring problem until the game was released if they only tested and had a pre-release on PCs.

It runs shit on xbox one right now because its still in early access so it would be the same story on ps4 so ill just wait for it to be complete or at least in a stable state

If your reasoning behind paying MORE for a games early access is to get.to play it a little early, I advise patience young ones, lol.

@SonyInfinity I prefer choice.

Internet: Hype for early access, but whine when a Beta testing crashed..
Aren't these 2 the same thing? why the double standard?

I don't want half a game.

Sim?

its really a very good game i played it on steam Sony are missing out on it i am sure the Sony players would love it even though its a beta and the frame-rates are a bit dodgy .

it plays fine box got one over on Sony there .

I play it on pc for more than a month, have around 300 hours played. This is the game I waited years for. Mix of WoW, minecraft and the hunger games, is my opinion! And cheap! And for the people that say it's better there's no Early Access on PS. That's like really stupid. Then you have the choice to buy it early or not. Now there's only one choice, buy it when 'finished'. It's also better for you guys that don't want it early. The game will be more finished if there's an early access option.

@Vreckie unfortunately people don't recognise choice, nobody is forcing them to buy the early access so if it's an option, just dont buy it if you don't want to, simple. There is only one reason I can see that Sony won't let us have it and it's money, Sony obviously couldn't agree on a price so they denied us. They can't say it's because they feel it would not be value for money for us because they charge £12.99 a month (I think) for PSnow and as much as I want it to it doesnt even work for most people!! Also Sony insult me by deciding for me that it's not value for money, I live in the Uk I already live in a nanny state tyvm please dont try and tell me what I should and shouldn't be spending my own money on as well, please Sony, give us the choice.

I would like an early access program, but it's got to come with a digital refund program as well. Steams system for that is great, but should be expanded on. I think currently it's anything within 2 weeks and less than 2 hours of play. Early access should have a 4hr limit, with guidelines. For instance a game like day z, I feel like I paid for that a long, long time ago. Its still at last check in a disaster. I should be able to get a refund. For full digital games, there should be a 4hr 2 week refund timeframe, and the real must have in a digital marketplace, a licence trading feature. You can't trade season passes, dlc, or bonus items, but the digital liscense is a must. I would sell my digital versions of mordor, thief, tomb raider, rayman, trine, trials, the witcher, dying light, blood borne, far cry, resident evil, madden 25/15, rivals, infamous, nba 2k, until dawn, the order in a heartbeat. Sorry for going off topic but man a digital reselling marketplace would be incredible. Doesn't even have to be for $$, I would gladly accept psn store credit.

@xMEADx it's £12 for 3 months/£40 for a year. If it was £13 a month they'd be charging £157 a year! They wouldn't have sold more than 3 consoles if that was the case

@benrawr You missread I think, your talking about PS+ i'm talking about PSnow the rental service that let's you rent old gen title's.

This is a matter of free choice and in my Sony world you should have it. If you do not want a "broken game" or an "alpha" then wait for the "finished game" but others like me would like the choice to trial a game or have the early release. Not only does it get us the game cheaper but it also allows us a hand in making the game better with feedback to the creaters in it's early stages of development. Song please give us choice.