Is anybody else sick of this "Early Access" fad?

I approved of the concept initially but it just didn't work out. Too many of them never get completed, or are just terrible to start and leave me with no interest in ever checking them out again.

I literally stopped looking at the Steam Store and sales because of Early Access games. They're everywhere. Finish your game and then sell it, or don't waste my time by making one at all.

I was disappointed when I saw GOG starting their "In Development" sales. I originally started coming here for their Good Old Games, and I'm willing to accept that they've moved past that. Good New Games can be great as well. But why the hell are they wasting our time with Terrible Incomplete Games?

I'll admit that I haven't given GOG's InDev games a chance. Are they at least doing a better job of vetting them than Steam?

Or is this just the beginning of the same path that Steam went down?

For now at least the EA games available DO seem to have a degree of quality control going into their selection, instead of the free-for-all "I CAN GAME DEV" Early Access spam you see on Steam now (Early Access RPGMaker games anyone?)

Obviously we can't predict the future, some may fail, some may not. But at the end of the day the decision to purchase or not lies with you.

Won't be long till GOG "in dev" title ends up like this:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/245130

...and why isn't GOG releasing any more classic games?! I thought this was Good OLD Games, not Good INDIE Games!

/Sarcasm

While classics are slower between releases, we did just get Men of Valor.

EDIT: Nvm I'm slow to pick up your sarcasm ;-) Need more COFFEE!

...that doesn't look like a Dungeons and Dragons game from the early 90s!

/Sarcasm

Serious Question: How many of those old DnD games is GOG missing? Anybody have any idea?

Every time someone says "Is X just the beginning of the same path that Steam went down?" a kitten in Africa dies :(

Sorry, I'm NOT sick of it. I consider myself capable of choice, there is always the option to just not buy. I wouldn't even mind too much if GoG was full of "finished" crap like Steam is, for the same reason. I came here for the old games too, but today DRM-Free is the main selling point.

I'm not too trusting with GID games. I never heard about most of them and they are genres I don't like too much. But I wouldn't dare to suggest taking this possibility away from others who may be interested. I have only bought Starbound, and so far it looks to be good choice. There is about 20 hours of content just to reach top tier equipment (not top tier ship though), and there are many things I didn't try yet. Good value for the money even if the development stopped right now - so, the curated approach to EA seems to work so far. It's certainly far from "terrible incomplete games".

From my own memory, so anybody feel free to correct me.

Heroes of the Lance
War of the Lance
Dragons of Flame
Dragon Strike
Shadow Sorcerer
Neverwinter Nights '91
Spelljammer
Fantasy Empires
DeathKeep
Blood & Magic
The Gorgon's Alliance
Warriors of Ravenloft
Descent to Undermountain

Also, not all of these are exactly good, like Descent to Undermoutain which was shoved out by Interplay before being finished.

I think we're all capable of choice. The problem is that the only sane choice is often "no".

After a few dozen times of walking down an alley and hearing "Hey stud, wanna have a good time for $5?" and getting all excited, only to walk out of that alley disappointed and with a strange burning sensation, eventually you just start screaming "NO!" and hurling whiskey bottles at them.

This is disappointing, because eventually you hit Julia Roberts with one because it's your default reaction.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that GOG is directly responsible for me hitting Julia Roberts with whiskey bottles, and I'm not sure that was their intention.

yes
dlc crap
microtransactions
and now having the dubious honor of paying to be a fucking beta tester and then hope and pray you get a finished product eventually
maybe

if this is the direction of modern gaming i want out

Okay, I'm obviously not getting through here, but I'll keep trying:

Will everyone please, for the love of GOG, stop referring to early access titles as EA Games!?!

I cannot stress this enough. Seriously, it will make future discussions about games so confusing, and people will have no idea what other people are trying to say. It's like lazily deciding that steampunk is too long a word to bother to write, and start referring to all games with a steampunk theme as Steam Games.

EA Games is a huge game publisher, people! The name is already taken! Granted, they evoke many of the same reactions and divisions in the gaming community as early access games do, but that doesn't mean the two are interchangeable in a discussion!

If you cannot be assed to write out "early access" in full, adopt GOG's expression of Games In Development, and call them GIDs instead, not EA Games!

I reserve the right to mercilessly mock and deliberately misunderstand anyone referring to early access games as EA Games in the future.

( barely functional and hope and pray you get a complete and functioning game out of it ) paid beta's then ?

the brackets and content in them are optional

What do we call EA games™ made by EA games™?