So, when you buy an 'early access' title like EFT, you're paying simultaneously for the currently released product, and the released product it will be at some point in the future. For that reason, and others, it is worthless to be talking about early access games in terms of 'alpha,' 'beta' or 'release.' Those titles have been robbed of any meaning.Īs far as anyone's concerned, EFT is already released, so there is a product, but it will continue to be developed. They 'released,' but does DayZ resemble a complete game? That's up to you to decide, but most people would say no. At any point, any developers with any sort of product could call it 'alpha,' 'beta' or 'release.' Look at DayZ for example.

Alpha/Beta/Release are illusory titles that are arbitrarily assigned to the game by developers whenever they feel like. feature complete bug fixing), there is also no real concept of 'release'.Įarly access games is just something that developers build upon and release to the public iteratively. Just like early access games do not follow the concept of 'beta' in software development (i.e.

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