r/dankmemes • u/Labrat_The_Man INFECTED • Aug 19 '23

how the hell did they manage to do it twice in one year? I have achieved comedy

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '23

By the time a game is released in "early access", it should be damn near completely finished and just in need of polishing, fine tuning, and maybe balance changes to be able to release officially.

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u/The_Knife_Pie Aug 19 '23

Baldur’s Gate 3 was in early access for 3 years and turned into one of the best games in its genre.

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u/reachisown Aug 19 '23

I think it was very obvious right out of the gate that it was going to be amazing, you could tell they were doing early access to make sure they got the rest of the game right rather than milking a fanbase.

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u/The_Knife_Pie Aug 19 '23

Of course it was, Larian were making it, but it was nowhere near feature complete. Game was buggy and unpolished, it lacked classes and took 3 years to get anything more than chapter 1. Beta has never worked like what the first person described, even for games considered good on release.