Okay, so my wait 90 days before buying theory still holds true for new games.
I would suggest adopting the same policy. The game will still be there when you get to it. But as it happens, it might not be the same game you thought it'd be.
The game will be on sale at some point for certain, they are doing well now, but they all eventually are 20-50% off on a steam sale.
I told my friends I didn't want to play Palworld, its still early access, lets see if they finish the game, or I'll buy it on sale for 50% off in a few months, but one of them gifted me the game. I appreciate it of course, but in the vein of "wait 90 days before buying" I have been fully done with paying for early access games for years now and do not want to give companies money for that anymore either.
Let's see if they actually finish the game first before giving them money maybe? They got plenty from all the normies already(applicable here in Tekken's case too).
I made one exception to not buying EA: Hardspace Shipbreaker. And damn, it was fun in EA. But the money ran out, they applied a bunch of fixes that made everything worse, replaced the text-based ghost story with a poorly acted nigger woman unionization story, and slapped a 1.0 on it. I didn't think I could get mad about video games anymore, but I was wrong.
I'll be honest some games are great in EA, I liked Divinity Original Sin 2, I liked (still like) Valheim, I played ARK when it was new and EA in the past, but more and more companies started taking advantage of it and I just can't agree with it anymore, even if I like the company.
I'm big on the no pre-orders no early access type of purchasing now.
Okay, so my wait 90 days before buying theory still holds true for new games.
I would suggest adopting the same policy. The game will still be there when you get to it. But as it happens, it might not be the same game you thought it'd be.
The game will be on sale at some point for certain, they are doing well now, but they all eventually are 20-50% off on a steam sale.
I told my friends I didn't want to play Palworld, its still early access, lets see if they finish the game, or I'll buy it on sale for 50% off in a few months, but one of them gifted me the game. I appreciate it of course, but in the vein of "wait 90 days before buying" I have been fully done with paying for early access games for years now and do not want to give companies money for that anymore either.
Let's see if they actually finish the game first before giving them money maybe? They got plenty from all the normies already(applicable here in Tekken's case too).
I made one exception to not buying EA: Hardspace Shipbreaker. And damn, it was fun in EA. But the money ran out, they applied a bunch of fixes that made everything worse, replaced the text-based ghost story with a poorly acted nigger woman unionization story, and slapped a 1.0 on it. I didn't think I could get mad about video games anymore, but I was wrong.
I'll be honest some games are great in EA, I liked Divinity Original Sin 2, I liked (still like) Valheim, I played ARK when it was new and EA in the past, but more and more companies started taking advantage of it and I just can't agree with it anymore, even if I like the company.
I'm big on the no pre-orders no early access type of purchasing now.