Early Access: We're Paying to Be Beta Testers!
"Early Access" often means paying full price for an unfinished game. We're essentially unpaid beta testers, finding bugs and issues developers should fix pre-release. What began as indie support has become a major studio excuse.

Why do we tolerate it? Hype, FOMO, and the hope "it'll get better." We're conditioned to accept incomplete products, spoiling the final experience. It's time to demand better. Stop paying to do their QA work.

What happened to the good old days when game developers built a game and then invited people to alpha test, and then fix the issues make improvements. Then invite more people to 2nd round of alpha testing, and continue to fix and improve. Then invite massive amounts for beta testing, to test reliability of servers etc. and then hold open beta to cap off development. Now wait for it then sell the damn game and release it to the world.