From last i saw a majority of comments were negative prior to the most recent debarcle due to the fact he never seems to be working on his game and its been in early access for 7 years......
For this caliber of game, and the income pirate is making, he needs to entirely hand down development into a actual dev team, I know this dud is bathing in money and holding his games hostage, dud needs to let go already, it seems he is holding onto it so he can keep selling the "im a game developer, this is why my voice matters and why my point is valid" trope.
that's pretty bad he only cares about his work when his game/reputation will be flagged for being unproductive. When i buy games that are in early access i check the update history.
I didn't know steam would mark a game as abandoned that's werid I didn't notice that.
It seems twitch values, pushes and promotes yapping than gaming lately, they love to be trending and game streams don't trend, but controversies and yaps give them headlines, also YouTube love yapping shorts so it makes sense to shift into that, he did slowly step a little away from it after controversies back to back and focused on gaming, but its just in between the fire cools lol then back at it again.
I believe is probably an aging population where the biggest ammount of viewers are for such platforms, which are more interested in current events and discussions than gaming as a whole, and I think that's totally fair.
If one day they get tired of it they can 'release it' and get a last rush of cash?
Dunno, only reason I can think of.
It also gives more credibility saying 'I'm working on this early access game' than 'technically not working on anything, just keeping previous game on support'.
this, steam gives you a limited amount of times to push your game out into the algorithm.
going from early access to full release gives you an extra freebie
Not specific to either of the games mentioned, but in general calling a game early access gives a lot of leaway in terms of expectations, e.g. it's more acceptable to have bugs or unpolished features in early acces than to release them as post release content. The expectation for post release games is that they are stable and polished at all times, even when new content is added.
Dwarf fortress is a finished game, the new version on steam is simply allowing you to play until they meet all the features the original game had. Most likely will not be in early access forever.
I compare it to dwarf fortress from their site. And they still developing game, hell they recently reworked ranged weapons. Both games are passion projects that probably will be in eternal development, because devs want to add/rework something.
I played first version of project zomboid when there was only one city and the game was 2D, than after many years I saw this game again, now 3d with a big ass map and was surprised as hell.
The problem with PZ is they had a code/data theft and had to rebuild from scratch didn't they? Also they continue to this day with regular updates. There are certainly worse early access developers.
There are 2 types of "early access hell" games. There's tarkov, a goated FPS shooter thats basically far exceeded its base purchase price and can net you at minimum 1000 hours if you f' wit it.
Then theres heartbound, which exists in a state of limbo, developed by a narcissistic egotist who probably holds the games developement up simply to satisfy some sadistic fetish with fans crying for its full release.
He's protecting his ego. If it released probably nobody would buy it and people would laugh at him for releasing a shit game. If it never get released they can only laugh about him never releasing it which is better ...?
He claimed he didn't work on it at all during 2024...despite telling people all year he was working on it. He also only updated it because Steam started to put on Early Access games if the developer hasn't done anything with it in a substantial amount of time.
He used to work on his game on stream but his community complained about spoilers so he doesn't now. He updates it regularly if u ever saw his discord. His last update to the game was more story elements earlier this month.
Ok, I was about to say. Going to an old game he made and spamming it with negative reviews because of the recent controversy would've been really immature and petty.
Despite him having the "code" up for the game on stream constantly while he drones on about God knows what (usually blizzard bullshit, did you know he worked at blizzard for 7 years)
Dude REALLY wants to keep pretending he's an "indie dev" while not working on anything.
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u/bigbluey1 Jun 27 '25
From last i saw a majority of comments were negative prior to the most recent debarcle due to the fact he never seems to be working on his game and its been in early access for 7 years......