How the heck can they sell alpha access for £200? Hell, you have to hash out £100 just to get into the beta within a reasonable amount of time.
[QUOTE=Niko_38;43168617]How the heck can they sell alpha access for £200? Hell, you have to hash out £100 just to get into the beta within a reasonable amount of time.[/QUOTE]
People shouldn't even be playing the alpha, but they just really want to. It's fair game to ask for that much to be honest, if you don't want to pay that much, then don't. The game will get released eventually.
The point of an alpha is to be more closed off than a beta.
Hence, only people that pledged over 200£ are invited to the alpha because they are literally more valuable than the others. Alpha isn't a game launch for everyone, it's a development stage, which, incidentally, you are also given access to if you supported the devs enough.
What's so hard to understand?
Only kinda relevant to the article, but is anyone else seeing games come out on Early Access and not buying them right away? I know I've taken a pass on Starbound right now because I'd rather buy it when it's full released. The only game I've bought that's under early access is Prison Architect and that's because it was on sale. I haven't even put much time into it because I'd rather play it when it's closer to feature complete.
[QUOTE=Banned?;43168731]Only kinda relevant to the article, but is anyone else seeing games come out on Early Access and not buying them right away? I know I've taken a pass on Starbound right now because I'd rather buy it when it's full released. The only game I've bought that's under early access is Prison Architect and that's because it was on sale. I haven't even put much time into it because I'd rather play it when it's closer to feature complete.[/QUOTE]
For indies without much of a budget, Early Access means you can get some additional funding/early buys before the development cycle has finished.
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And people who really want to play it can play it early.
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