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Steam now warns about Early Access that have not been updated in months. (bsky.app)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is just pressure on the business folks, not the devs.

I’m a game dev of 20 years and I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a dev with that sort of scammy inclination. On the business side of things though…

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

I follow lots of early access devs, and it's not uncommon for some devs to blatantly post updates only strategically, fixing some minor thing as the next seasonal Steam sale approaches. Some continue even after leaving early access: serious issues in bug report threads, but some minor fix gets posted as the sale approaches, clearly to make the game look alive, even though none of the big stuff is getting fixed.

Plenty of devs are their own business side, anymore.