This is a joke, right?

This is a joke, right?

ITS NOT EVEN A FINISHED GAME!!!!! NOT EVEN HALF A GAME!

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Then don't buy it

>NOT EVEN HALF A GAME!
How do you know?

And you're paying to get access to the entire game once it's finished.
This is essentially pre-ordering, except you also get a bit of content up front.

It's basically a preorder that lets you fuck around with the early build, if you want. Why would they sell cheaper?

The only game I have ever bought Early Access (that I know of) was From the Depths, and it is a damn good game.

You are not allowed to be logical and smart on Zig Forums!

I mean if you're retarded enough to pay to beta test you deserve to be fleeced.

Don't get it until it releases in a state you want it to then. Early access is cancer that lets devs get their payouts early and usually makes them not try as hard for their 1.0 drop

Meanwhile ive got 30 hours in genshin and didn't spend a dime LMAO

Imagine playing western games

I'm not poor and I can wipe my ass with $59,99

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>no guarantee the full game will ever even come out
If you're gonna do this it should be free (because you are literally just getting random people to test your game for you) and then charge full price when the game is done.

Stupid user just pirate it

Exactly this. I don't see the problem at all.

This isn't an indie game. It has a publisher. It's going to release.

>Newfags only now knowing about how Larian does things

>mfw gonna wait for the game to come out of early access before even considering buying it
>will probably get it on a sale a year or two later
>if it never comes out of early access, or is released unfinished, I'll never buy it
What's the issue here?

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stupid user, just buy it from cdkeys.com

>Why would they sell cheaper?
Because OP is a whiny, entitled faggot, that's why.

It's free though.

what you fucking faggot
do you want the game for half off so you can get the full game for cheaper when it comes out for your noble efforts of playing a video game

If your clients eat your shit, you keep shitting on them.

This kind of defense always reminds me of Anthem.

>buying Larian shit
It's all the same shit, this is basically Divinity - Hasbro skin edition

Early access is genius. Rather than paying for beta testers developers now have idiots paying them to beta test their software. More money for developers is always a good thing.

let retards buy it, I know i won't
There are already so many good games out there I never played that i couldn't care less for new games

Why are you so fucking retarded?

YOU ARE PREORDERING THE FULL GAME YOU FUCKING MONGOLOID DUMB SHIT MOTHERFUCKER.

Well Anthem did come out. But it was a loot shooter made by EA and Bioware, so those facets would make one believe it would be shit.

bought it unexpectedly, having fun. only noticed 1 bug sound related. played for hours yesterday, pretty great so far
trying to also finish achieves for D2

Is this your first time with Early Access? It's literally "buy this game before we finish it, we MIGHT complete it, don't know."

Good, I fucking hope you choke on Early Access you stupid cunts! For years and years people have told me "its not finished yet wa wa". This is the future you've sowed for yourself, fuck you.

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Get your eyes examined retard.

If it said "PREORDER" then the logic would apply

But this is "Early Access" and you are literally buying it.

Maybe you are just special ed retarded or something? Perhaps its just the coonsumer delusion that makes you fail to understand why many people find this practice scummy.

>once it's finished
You put too much faith in these people, you are the type of person that con artists go after

>It's literally "buy this game before we finish it, we MIGHT complete it, don't know."
Retard

The game will be finished regardless, EA is there to help the find bugs and test things out before the game releases next year.

You are reordering the game. Divinity OS 1 & 2 were also on EA and they are the best selling RPGs of the last few years.

God you are one dense mother fucker.
You are preordering the game, when the full version is released you get it straight away for no extra money.

Why not buy when the game is actually released?

I am sorry if I am making too much sense to your retarded brain but you need to relax lol

This. I don't see the issue. Don't participate in paid betas if you don't want to.

Why pre-order? Why buy games?
I don't know, maybe to support a developer?

Do you faggots just get off to being mad about shit?

>Why not buy when the game is actually released?
Listen you stupid fucking retard, you don't have to buy it now. No one is forcing you and it clearly states on all stores you can buy it from that it is in early access.

You can just wait for the full release, but those of us who want to play the early access and help test out the game and try out things they are testing will buy it now.

Don't like it? don't buy it you stupid fucking retard.

Anthem is
>Published by EA
>Games as a Service

There's no comparison between it and a game from Larian, who has always delivered

If you sell the product for full price, I expect it will be finished, you shouln't never be paying companies like EA for testing their unfinished games.

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It's clearly unfinished too, game freezes and crashes, seems to have a memory leak issue
Animation bugs, dialogue skipping at random. I mean it doesn't really matter to me since $60 is nothing but it's weird they chose to start the early access a whole year before official release

Paying to beta test a game how ugly are the people doing this ?

So you are paying to alpha test a game?

Isn't that usually something the devs would do?
Like, they pay people to QA and test the game.

Guys can you please help me out? Is this genius literally saying he is happy to pay 60 bucks to be an alpha tester for free at the price of 60 bucks?

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It will be finished, Larian is not a literally who releasing a game that will never be finished.

They released the two most popular RPGs of the last decade first on earl access.

God you are fucking dumb.

I spent $60 to preorder the full game. Early access is an extra thing that i get for free.

>You put too much faith in these people
Larian has done EA games atleast 2 times already and both times they ended up making universally loved games once they actualy managed to complete them. So you are completely full of shit

>you are the type of person that con artists go after
But Larian are not con-artists though, they have been around since the early '00 and already have a good trackrecord when it comes to releases. If it was some no-name studio that wasn't backed by the largest tabletop gaming company on the planet (except for Hasbro) then you would have had a point

>Why not buy when the game is actually released?
You CAN do exactly that, user.

>paying to be a QA tester
consumers never fail to be absolute retards

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>Early access is an extra thing that i get for free.

But it says it costs 60 bucks?

No, the full game costs $60. Early access is free if you preorder.

>caring about supporting developers
fuck off. you're more so supporting their cancerous publishers who snort cocaine off strippers assholes while talking about consoomers like farm animals.

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This is what you get for supporting western "videogames".

If you didn't know Anthem was going to be shit by watching the videos, congratulations, you're a retard. When they put out that 40 minute uncut video of the developers playing on IGN, I fucking fell asleep during it, and I beat my dick to giant robots. How the fuck are you going to make a giant robot game so monumentally boring that a video of it knocks me out cold in my chair? Bioware had already tanked their reputation by that time anyway.

I paid was a divine backer for the div os2 kickstarter and got to literally self insert as a black ring boss. $60 for a larian game is nothing to me

not him but you are not paying to be an alpha tester, you are paying to pre-order the actual GAME, but you get access to its earlier build, hence early access.

Pc folks. Are we winning son?

Yeah but you're buying a promise. Even though pre-orders are dodgy, at least you're getting a complete QA tested game, not babbies first attempt at Unity.

You're a fucking idiot. Steam is full of abandoned Early Access titles and Steam fucking allows it.

They are self-published, you smart-ass.

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They know no one will buy their shit game when Wrath of the Righteous releases, so they need to hurry to push that alpha out.

>Yeah but you're buying a promise
user, Divinity OS 1 & 2 were released first in early access.

They Div OS 1 won GoTY Div OS 2 is one of the best selling CRPGs of the last decade.

BG3 is not a promise it is a certainty.

Just torrent it retard

I literally had to google what Wrath of the Righteous was.
>Kickstarter
lol

You are basically working for free to find bugs for lazy developers.

>you are paying to pre-order the actual GAME
this isn't how it works in the real world you fucking retard. Once the developers have your money, there's no more incentive to complete the game. Look at the countless EA titles on Steam that lie stagnant because the developers see no more money in carrying on the development cycle. You're a fucking retard and people like you why EA is acceptable.

Fuck your retarded ass for buying promises for $60 you utter fuckhead

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>60 shekels for an rpg
>no furry races
Dogshit. If I can't even rp as my own fursona then what's the point

>buying early access
you've only yourself to blame

All for free at the cost of 60 bucks lol

But its okay dood. ITS PREORDERING A FULL GAME.

Not him but you sound like such a faggot holy shit

It's pretty much this and how developers use EA to con retards out of money. Why should they complete the game? Why not just say its finished and just bolt it with the money? This is what EA is, it benefits the developers not the consumers. God the fact I'm explaining this shows how fucking hopeless this industry is.

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They did the same thing with os2 and that game came out, you're a schizo retard

Why does this thread exist? Why are any of you faggots arguing? It should've ended at .

where did i say that i supported early access, retard.
all i said was that you're not buying the alpha, you're buying the game you fucking mongoloid.

>>paying to be a QA tester
I ain't paying to test the game, I'm pre-ordering it and getting a free demo in return. There is no one holding me financially hostage here or forcing me to fill bug-report forms and Larian already have Q&A staff working on the game and that will continue working on the game until it's released. Once I've played trough ACT 1 I'll just not play the game again until they add the rest of the content.

Is this how desperate larianhaters are?

>buying a promise

Basically an equivalent to Kickstarter project. Way to sweeten free beta testing labor.

>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T CRITIZE MY CORPORATE OVERLORDS
kys

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You dumb nigger, it has no DRM so you can get it for free.

>B-But Anthem!

You literally get to play Baldurs Gate 3 if you pay for it now. If you don't like it you can refund it now, or wait until it's released and then refund it because you're allowed to refund games that leave early access regardless of play time.

Don't give me no bullshit about "well preordering is stupid you're paying for something you don't even know will be good". You can literally play the game right now.

And yes, Larian will finish the game. They are essentially an AAA developer at this point and hire hundreds of people while developing games with budgets that go into the multiple millions. They're not going to take the money and run.