Sure but I just gave you the solution to the problem
I use it and it's great, but it doesn't work on the steam app. Only the website.
Sure but I just gave you the solution to the problem
I agree, its a shame what Steam has been reduced to and you can't filter it without using a third party app. its hard to find a full featured PC game these days, its just indie, early access and F2P games these days.
Sometimes I forget that I have Enhanced Steam and I mistakenly think that the Steam webpage is just really awesome.Enhanced Steam allows you to remove Early Access games from the new releases section, so this is a solveable problem. Anyone having this problem should just solve it now. http://www.enhancedsteam.com/
I am not convinced that there is a problem though. Since December 1st, 14 games have released on Early Access. 49 have released not on Early Access. There are only 100 Early Access games (by contrast there are 2350 not Early Access games). Also, all Early Access games will eventually not be Early Access games.
I agree, its a shame what Steam has been reduced to and you can't filter it without using a third party app. its hard to find a full featured PC game these days, its just indie, early access and F2P games these days.
You are quite the optimist, aren't you?
Is anything he's saying wrong, though?
well 1 2 3 drop that beat like an ugly baby might never get a real release.
almost all of them eventually won't be
I agree, its a shame what Steam has been reduced to and you can't filter it without using a third party app. its hard to find a full featured PC game these days, its just indie, early access and F2P games these days.
You shouldn't have to resort to third party measures to not have unfinished video games being marketed to you on the new releases tab.
I agree, its a shame what Steam has been reduced to
There are a lot of indies now, because of Greenlight and other factors. And before, when they were more restrictive about what titles got on Steam, NeoGAF would criticize Valve for that. Everytime an indie developer spoke out about him/her not getting their game on Steam, everyone thought Valve were stupid because of that, earch time. Seems people will not be satisfied no matter what.
Dylan Fitterer said:I'm convinced that this is the way to make highly-replayable games the best they can be. If I'd kept Audiosurf 2 to myself these past couple months it wouldn't be nearly as far along as it is now. I'd have focused on the wrong things (less aligned with what players want) and would have been a lot less productive. Working with frequent feedback from real, passionate players is a massive improvement over working in isolation. So, as you said, it's easy to see why early access is interesting to developers. I want to see Audiosurf 2 advance as far as possible and this is the way.
Of course, some players care enough about Audiosurf (or music games in general) to want to help push this part of gaming forward too. To those of you who have bought in early to play and give feedback - thank you! Development is thriving on your input. To those of you who have gone another step and implemented/shared ideas on workshop - double thank you! Finding bugs is very useful, but helping shape the game's growth is even more valuable.
The downside to early access has been the customers who bought it and didn't get what they expected. Seeing regrets posted on the forum at early access launch hit hard. Hopefully it will live up to what they wanted soon. I did see a post over the weekend from someone who expressed regret at first, but was now glad to have it and that was good to read.
Well, that went long. Anyway, thanks for buying in Xaromir!
You shouldn't have to resort to third party measures to not have unfinished video games being marketed to you on the new releases tab.
well 1 2 3 drop that beat like an ugly baby might never get a real release.
almost all of them eventually won't be
Warranty situation too messy if it bricked hardwareI like it. I wish Sony would allow early access games on PSN with a clear disclaimer.
I liked reading what Dylan (Audiosurf/Audiosurf 2) had to say about Early Access:
Valve made it so that you can pretty much ignore Early Access games by removing them from the new release column. I don't see a problem with giving developers a chance to reach more people early on.
Even if they remained in the new releases column, honestly, how hard is it to simply ignore something you aren't interested in? Early Access games offer a) a chance for fans to get an early look at a game they're interested in, b) beta feedback to a dev so that the end result becomes better, and c) additional funding to that dev so that, again, the end result is superior to what it may have been.
If you dislike Early Access games on Steam, simply treat them like you would any new release you aren't interested in: ignore them.
Games like Wasteland 2 and Planetary Annihilation can suck my balls though, especially at those price points.
So for a wild moment I thought some of the posts in this thread were making extremely funny Electronic Arts jokes.
You don't have to. Valve stopped putting them there a month ago.
I think it's tacky. QA should be left to QA testers, not consumers. We should not have to pay to beta test a game. Beta testers should be paid.
Devs not taking QA seriously is why every game these days is riddled with so many bugs at launch.
Games like Wasteland 2 and Planetary Annihilation can suck my balls though, especially at those price points.
Small indie teams managed before. Usually thanking the friends and family testers in the credits.Most of these games are from small teams without a publisher, they can't QA test them with the rescources they have.
Warranty situation too messy if it bricked hardware
I can understand people balking at the prices those games are at for Early Access, but you have to understand, they're set at those prices so that Kickstarter backers don't feel like they've been screwed. Wasteland 2, for example, is set at $59.99 because purchasing it with beta access through KS came at a minimum of $55. It wouldn't be very fair to those backers if it was now being sold through Steam at a lower price.
Small indie teams managed before. Usually thanking the friends and family testers in the credits.
This is true, it doesn't seem like an early release at all.
I can understand people balking at the prices those games are at for Early Access, but you have to understand, they're set at those prices so that Kickstarter backers don't feel like they've been screwed. Wasteland 2, for example, is set at $59.99 because purchasing it with beta access through KS came at a minimum of $55. It wouldn't be very fair to those backers if it was now being sold through Steam at a lower price.Games like Wasteland 2 and Planetary Annihilation can suck my balls though, especially at those price points.
Being the gatekeeper and vanguard of the current sizeable and diverse renaissance in PC gaming?I agree, its a shame what Steam has been reduced to and you can't filter it without using a third party app. its hard to find a full featured PC game these days, its just indie, early access and F2P games these days.
People do realise that the funding brought in by Early Access is also making the end result better, right?
You'd rather a game like X Rebirth or Total War Rome 2 come out without early access?
Small indie teams managed before. Usually thanking the friends and family testers in the credits.
i like early access. without it, we wouldn't be playing kerbal space program, starbound, prison architect, assetto corsa etc so early
Early access is not my cup of tea. I have friends who deem games as bad during early access betas and it doesn't feel fair to do so until the game is released/completed. For example Don't Starve. A friend of mine played it a lot at first but then stopped playing it because he felt no incentive to continue after a while. Now I have yet to play it but I assume things have happened since the beta and maybe now there is incentive to continue where he stopped playing. I just feel like his criticism is unfair since he has not touched the final version of the game.