Why doesn't he just push his crappy new update to the main branch, how much beta testing goes into testing `#` in a new font?
because hes at the "sticking to my own guns til i shoot myself" moment. he aint gonna budge cos thats what pirate does, he either stays or runs away.
so hes eiter taking his game outta steam and putting it on epic, putting it on his own online store like tarkov, or leavin the tag.
I really just dont understand the gymnastics involved in creating a private branch for "beta" when its in early access. Is early access not the beta??
i can shed some light into this
the early access program is misused by faggots who think what its made for is to release a game that is unfinished. i dont mean unfinished like it isnt 100% done, i mean unfinished as in there is no game in there.
that is to say either a replayable gameplay loop of some sort or an ending
take three games as examples, the forest, rimworld and project zomboid. all fo them have or had early access programs, all are succesful with varying degrees. all had beta brances for new builds. two things were crucial in difference to heartbound and the faggots i meant:
- there was already a replayable gameplay loop (rimworld already had an ending at launch in EA)
- the update chunks didnt take an entire year to leave the beta branch (except perhaps zomboids most recent b42 but they had problems with development and didnt treat their consumers with radio silence)
at the very least, those games had constant news updates about the state of the game, events and how things were going through news article. i encourage checking their steam pages for yourself to see what i mean
EDIT: i remembered another, probably example: black mesa. didnt release the last chapter for years, had a really good reason. look it up, another success story, cos they had the entire game up to the normally hated last chapter locked down.
oh yeah and if mald is reading this and thinks these are different genres or in the case of black mesa a remake, undertales dev cycle took 32 months, and toby fox became a millionare only after it came out
this is heartbound
two beta branc updates, an april fools updates, and the 13 month smoking gun
50 year experience it, master hacker, gestated blizzard into existence, doesnt fucking know how to provide a news feed for his game on steam