Pure Male Bovine Excrement.
Minecraft was in Alpha, and it was reviewed extensively. It was one of the reasons why I bought in at that stage of development.
Kerbal Space Program was in Alpha, and it was reviewed extensively. It was one of the reasons why I bought it at that stage of development.
Space Engineers, Valheim, Fortnight, Subnautica, the list goes on and on. If they're taking players money, then reviewing them should be fair game for journalists.
The only "playable Alpha" game I know of that insists that it's unfair to review the game (but paradoxically claims it is a playable game when taking your money) is Star Citizen. A continuously crowdfunded development project that despite not having delivered the game back in 2014 when they promised they would, not only continues to enrich the Roberts Clan through a despicable and duplicitous Hollywood Accounting shell company shuffle, but is now paying millions in dividends to those same individuals, in a particularly egregious and utterly unethical abuse of the crowd funding model.
SC is in this weird spot where positive reviews would garner them sales, but negative reviews would probably get them even more sales. The more wrong they do, the more cash they get. So there's no reason for it not to be reviewed except
A) reviewers know their words dont matter
B) CR doesnt want to hear all the obviously negative things.
Even if there was gameplay, which to me sounds like there isn't much of, reviewers would comment on all the negatives you see in this thread, but more officially, I suppose.
Once CIG has invented Subsumption AI, the NPCs will write the game code for the devs, exponential content growth as the floodgates open!
Maybe it may come to this. FDev, going about things not super fast, but with a foot on the brakes, in case AI code does something they dont want vs. CIG haphazardly trying stuff then oops AI code vanishes from screens, to say "hello" from an outside computer. CR not so sure about claiming it.
And what makes Derek the most reliable financial guy to make these statements? Because he's a gamedev... who has made very successful games indeed! (lol) But oh well, seeing as he is the lord and saviour of the refund faithfuls, yes, now YOU are the faithfuls! (To derek, of course) I doubt this discussion is going to be fruitful at all.
May his name be hallowed and his predictions cometh true... may CIG crumble in hell... (90 days tops)
Anyway, some more predictions from me: CIG will need atleast 600 million and 3 more years to finish Star Citizen! Maybe I should start a "Bobspeak" blog´.
I dont know much about DS, but what I do know is he predicted what CR was saying back in the day couldnt be done, in the timeframe, and with the amount of money they had at the time. He was 100% right about that. I think he even had a time estimate. Thats giving CIg far more credit than others have and others have made far more dire, but most likely accurate, predictions about the whole thing. Aside from that, he probably enjoys making games, or trying to.
My estimate is 2 billion and 20 years going by what they've shilled out. Now what?
