As a game developer myself, I can tell you that early access players are EXTREMELY valuable. Aside from the obvious "supporting the funding of the game" part of it, it's early access players who give the most valuable feedback and suggestions for making the final game better.

@Nathaniel Smith: Yeah, two years later. The new update is impressive, no lie. It just should've happened quite a while ago.

Starbound actually just got a massive update that's been in the works for about a year now. It's very complete now. Only missing end game content :)

torrents help you try before you buy

i was going to write a lot, but i'll shorten it to: i like Jane

Engie needs Prescription Safety Goggles!

I only ever bought into one Early Access game:
Chaos Reborn, they had a long open Beta which already had a game worth paying for, they now have a fully functional Game up on Early access just adding more and more features which are not essential.Even if it stayed like this it'd be worth it.

@Terraform Trent: I thought you were complimenting the art lol

Jo seriously. If you do the glasses like you are doing now I COMPLETELY support it I just didn't support the early glasses drawings when they looked weird

God is she ugly with these new glasses... She now looks like a faty

Actually, looking at everything again...
The art's been poor since Jo left.
Let's face it, Engie isn't as great of an artist as Jo is.
I was actually happy to have Engie back, but I didn't know it meant poorer art.

What the heck happened to the art on this one?
Is this by a different artist??
Morgan's "terror" face is absolutely terrifying, Engie's even MORE sexualized than she was before with the sheer enormity of her breasts...

What's going on?

@Darius Düsener: Never buy a Survival Game Period. No one has ever made one that wasn't completely broken (besides Don't Starve and Minecraft, but those aren't just survival games).

Seriously though, ever since Angie's return, she seems to have grown quite a bit bustier.

I Agree that early access is a problem, but darkest dungeon was diferent for me. I watched streams before buying it, an even in early i'm already happy with what i got. Can't deny that starbound is FOREVER in early and i made a huge mistake with other early acess. I belive there are exceptions

Rule #1 of Early Access: You don't buy early access.

Sometimes games go out of early and are still not finished (looking right at you Blade Symphony, with lackluster tutorial, lots of lags and half-finished characters.)
So far the only Early Access title in my library is SolForge, and it's free

@Nerf NOW!!: Don't be modest; you're good at fighting games when you have the right incentive! ;)

http://www.nerfnow.com/comic/1345

As someone who supports a bunch of artists I like (Sorry, but this one's not getting $$ until it goes back to silent arcs), I like Early Access.

Early access is the two edged sword. Some games turn out really good to play... and with comments updating some of the problems and getting and idea of what the players ACTUALLY want then it turns out really good on release. Of course some stay in early access never finish taking all your money.

I hate Early Access. You either wait until the game is done and everybody has finished talking about it or buy a game that is inferior to what it will be by the time it is done. Regardless of what you do, you lose.

JANE STOP! The 13th Amendment says you can't do crap like that.

[url=#user_comment_357643]@Shareazu[/url]: Typo'd shmup, I'd assume. In case you don't know what those are, shoot em ups. vertical/horizontal scrolling 2d games where you control a ship, shoot enemies, get powerups and dodge bullets. They're fun, but many of them are extremely difficult (especially the bullet hell type).

I have a simple rule: I buy a AAA game as soon as there is a "All-in-One" release for less than $10 (Total War, ARMA, Skyrim). I might slightly change this for really great games towards $15 (eg GTA5). And I have time. Lots of time. A good game is a good game even five years later.

@Nerf NOW!!: What's a 'shrump'?

I have the feeling that the bigger joke - even when unintended - is the fact that Darkest Dungeon has a releasedate for the end of this week, ending its Early Access phase.

Starbound's latest update is practically a whole new game, and seems to have hit the point where there won't really be any save-wiping changes from here on out. I like dropping into the Nightly builds to see what's new, and the blog is updated almost daily as well.

Starbound just had a massive massive patch. They went live with all their test server stuff they have been working on for over a year. It's a pretty solid sandbox game now.

Do what I plan on doing and buy Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty until that game is finished. It looks pretty good and playable from what I've seen so it might not be so long... hopefully. Also if you haven't play any of the Oddworld games they will keep you entertain for quite a while. =D

I pledged for Dakest Dungeon on Kickstarter myself. I can't wait for my Steam key to finally arrive.

Early access is not perfect. I say if you're a fan and you think the game will be good, then go for it.

@Dan Sidney: There are some genres I don't play not because I don't like, but because I'm terrible at it: shrumps, fighting games and rhythim games are those

What are your feelings for Crypt of the Necrodancer? The community is in touch with the creator itself too, I see him around in twitch streams and he answers questions, while also deliver about weekly updates for his game.

You never drew Cadence either! She's so badass!

Well after watching several streams of Darkest Dungeon and even more videos I decided this game felt like a full release and it honestly does. My advice is: Wait at least a month and check if the hype is still alive. Also: Never buy any Zombie Survival Early Access Games.

Yeah, EA is really annoying to deal with, development often progresses at a snail's pace and the iteration tends to mean that you've overplayed one part that you need to get to the new part...

@Darth Biomech: My fear is simple: The game may never seen the light of the day, or a patch may erase all my progress. I disagree I may pay for it EVENTUALLY. I will only pay IF the game is releaaed in a reasonable complete form. Some games just never reach this point.

Starbound does support controls rebinding.

And also it is still actively developed and updated even though it's been in early access for fucking ages. There are games that were released in poorer state and have been never updated since.

Also comment length limit is stupid.

Just get DD already. It's one of the few gems that I feel is worth the early access, and I don't often say that.

So your choices are "not to play" and "not to play" then? It doesn't matter if you pay for finished or unfinished game, you are gonna to paid for it eventually. So it is better to play a game AND have chance to help developers a bit, right?

@Nerf NOW!!: Pretty sure key-binding is implemented in the newest update, I can check for you tomorrow if you'd like.

Or like Cube World? -.-

[url=#user_comment_357617]@Doc[/url]: Left hand support?

Jo, Starbound is bloody amazing, even in its beta state. In the past week, I have 89 hours in, have had 7 characters, and am not even done. You should totally try it.

Seeing Jane as a Floran would be amazing too.