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Steam now warns about Early Access that have not been updated in months. 🕵️ Tip: SteamDB browser extension shows last update for all games.

Excellent feature. One of the first things I check anyways when buying early access games is when the last news post was.

  • visor841@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    13 hours ago

    That just incentives devs to just push out whatever mess they currently have and say the game is released, and they’d do it unless Valve wanted to start moderating game again. At least right now the abandoned games are still labelled early access.

    • TyrianMollusk@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      9 hours ago

      So, when a game releases, buyers get the option to partially refund or commit, and valve uses the commit money to pay the refunds, so devs only make money if they keep more than half of their buyers, and customers have to consciously deal with sinking money into a potentially failed project.

      At least right now the abandoned games are still labelled early access.

      Most early access failures eventually just call themselves released at some point, so we’re no better off as far as that.