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I propose 2024 is the year of early access games boycott.

Bring back completed games only.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago (11 children)

There's nothing wrong with buying early access games. You as a buyer just need to be happy with the current state of the game at the time of purchase.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (9 children)

Exactly this. I tell my friends not to get their hopes up too high about Palworlds eventually being completed because the studio has a history of abandoning titles in early access. I'm not telling them not to buy it or that it's not worth purchasing, but to weigh if where it's currently at is worth the price they're charging.

The studio may use the funding they got from its spike in popularity to actually complete a title just as well as they might sell out to a bigger studio (I'd imagine The Pokemon Company would love to buy then bury it), or abandon it entirely. We don't know what the future holds and we do know the studio has a history, so keep that in mind when you're purchasing or when you're asking yourself if it was worth the buy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I am not sure about the pokemon company. Palworld is a completely different genre than pokemon and therefore not really a competitor.

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