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It's like buying a tiara for your fetus, before you even buy a crib.

ALSO, MICROTRANSACTIONS = DLC.

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[–] ShustOne@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We as gamers who want this are completely outdone by the insane amount of money some people will spend in this market. Change my mind.

PS. I hate the DLC and micro transaction market as they exist today. But they make 1000x the old market so no way anything changes.

[–] force@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

war thunder, destiny 2, what other games are there for the sole purpose of milking multiple payments of money out of people over a long period of time

gta 5 online probably counts too

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[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also also: can we make it that developers have only one Early Access game at a time. Finish the game before moving on to the next one, or abandon it and release it without the EA label.

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[–] Muhr@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I don't buy early access so I didn't even know :O

[–] half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like your sentence structure. ADHD?

[–] ChillDude69@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ADHD?

Obviously, yes. I feel seen.

[–] half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Respect. If bullet points were a thing. An actually easy to use thing. I'd use them. Cursor stuff covers the markup buttons for me.

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[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel pretty meh about cosmetic micro transactions, so if they wanna include cosmetic micro transactions in the early access to test it out, then meh. But they should be free during early access and then reset it when the game is released. EA is for testing.

[–] ChillDude69@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Exactly. I don't know how a lot of these people have opinions that are so wildly different from this.

When you have people paying you for a game that isn't finished yet, you're making a compact with them. If you take it seriously, you should be saying "I acknowledge that you people have given me the entire purchase price of this software, even though it is absolutely not finished. Every day that I spend working on this software, from then on, is OWED TO YOU PEOPLE. I will not consider a single moment of my time to truly be my own, until I have paid off that debt, and released a fully featured, complete product, as quickly as possible."

If you aren't comfortable with that situation, you shouldn't enter the Early Access program. It's not for profiteering. It's also not for weak people. If you don't absolutely KNOW that you have the ability to pay off the debt you have incurred, you shouldn't take on that debt. Nobody is forced to take on that debt. If you want to spend forever and a day making your game as a little hobby project, you can do it without a shitload of other people's money lying around in your bank account.

And if you want to make microtransaction money, you CERTAINLY shouldn't be doing it on other people's investments. Not unless they're going to get that money back, with an added return.

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[–] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This would also incentive devs to actually finish their game instead of getting stuck in early access limbo

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

Nah, they'd just call it finished and do the same thing.

[–] thorbot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Space engineers had joined the thread

[–] SkyJuice@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Tower Unite 😒

[–] neatchee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (27 children)

I've never seen a game in early access have dlc, only micro transactions for stuff like cosmetics and boosts. Can you give me an example of dlc on an early access game?

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