Has it ever been done right?

Factorio

Slay the Spire

None of these count. They'd have been just aa good if they released without an ea period. All they did was charge money for beta access that burned out real fans before 1.0

>They'd have been just as good if they released without an ea period
can you prove that at all?

>give me examples where it has been done properly but dont give me examples i dont agree with

fuck off

>post a good early access game
>no, don't post those early access games

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Freeman: Guerrilla Warfare
Barony (I think was ea)
Kingdoms and Castles
Risk of Rain
Golf with your Friends
Rimworld
KF2, until they started nickle and diming weapons again
Black Mesa
There are games that did/do it right OP, it is just the exception and not the rule.

Fucking skyboy.

ROCK...AND...STONE!!!

Any good EA game was good despite EA, not thanks to it.

as a a bussiness model, its perfected: you're literally paying money to playtest a game and when you complain about lack of features, they just say "sorry, early access, we will fix it in the full release"

Not really, most devs said thatbit helped them.

and they never have to release it, fuck there are games that have been in """early access""" for like 4+ years now

What's the craic, man?

Ok faggot, what would be an example of a game that did EA right where it wasn't just a pay2beta?

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Just sitting around, been working from home all week.
Weird not going out for paddys day.
Yourself?

Came here to post this
Deep Rock Galactic devs made great progress in early access

Stuck over on the Liverpool side. Completely dead.

nope

whenever the game was released.
From consumer perspective - fucking never (who the fuck would willingly buy an unfinished game to spoil the fun of playing a complete version later? It's only worth the hassle if you really want to support the dev)

Didn't give a shit about Greenlight/EA until VR, and let me tell you it's shit. I don't get the significance of it either. Game comes out of EA and it's as shit as it was last week, but they no longer work on it anymore.

Subnautica?

I don't get the system at all. Is it just a warning for the potential customer that this game might be a massive piece of shit, and if not now it can turn into it overnight?
Why are retards protecting devs because of
>muh ea access they're working so hard!!!

>pushed out of EA before all of the promised bugfixes were delivered
>said bugfixes abandoned because we're now making a paid sequel on the exact same engine
>that's after taking the Ebip bribe
>Xbox version is still so broken that selling it for actual money borders on crime
So this is the power of early access.

Rust

Deep Rock has done a great job expanding the game and listening to community feedback

Empyrion - Galactic Survival is still in EA but they crank out the updates. It is janky but a fun survival space sim. I just build ship and base blueprints and got my money's worth.
Factorio is fun even in EA. Autism overload.

Hades is the best example of early access I've ever seen.

>in early access since 2011
last 2 updates (cars and animations+battle system) made the game much more fun

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Subnautica did it well I'd say. Its a shame they fired the entire team and hired women and niggers for the sequel though. Now the games flopping and nobody likes it.

Grim Dawn

The Long Dark. Game came out with solid, playable content (survival mode, three maps, basic mechanics you'd expect of a survival game including hunting, crafting, equipment repair). Updates have been constant and consistent, introducing new maps, mechanics, wildlife, tools, clothing, etc. The game has an entirely playable survival mode with 10-ish, interconnecting maps of various difficulties to survive on. There's now at least 6 different kinds of animals when there used to be just three, all of which can be hunted and harvested. I think the game is officially out of early access by now, and the story campaign is like 60% done.

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What are some of the absolute worst?

Dayz for sure

Yes
Noita

good one

>burned out real fans
There are people still playing their first factories you lying faggot.

kek

Factorio

>no dont starve
It was one of the first, and it did it best.

CrossCode

Divinity Original Sin
Divinity Original Sin 2
Squad
ArmA
Minecraft
Terraria

Yeah back when it was free and called Shareware.

>Shareware.
Did you mean Shovelware?

Good game. I got Long Dark before the story mode and it had only 4 main maps. Just the survival component alone was worth it. I tried the story mode. It was okay but I guess I got hooked on that empty survival aspect from the sandbox mode.

Slay the Spire used gameplay date from the EA period in order to balance the game.
It would not have been as good a product without it.

data*

i think it's because noita is still in early access

No, you git. I'm talking about when developers gave a game away for free and asked you to pay for the sequels only. That was a good deal.

Except that never happened. What did happen was developers made massive quantities of low quality games just to try and make a buck. Which is shovelware.

Doom nigga

Dead Cells

mount and blade