What are some notable games that have been abandoned in early access? The Stomping Land comes to mind for me

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A lot of wasteland interactive games...

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haha that's true

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They're producing wastes, so... =\

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Dead Island: Epidemic was a MOBA that was shut down a couple of days ago. It was pretty good, too, it's just that there are too many MOBAs out there.

There are too many junk games to count though.

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yeah, I played it for like 3 hours or something and it was really fun

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Actually DI: Epidemic was shutdown because Deepsilver didn't want to continue investing into it.

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Shutdown and abandoned aren't quite the same. Abandoned games will typically still be sold and whilst marked as EA it may not be immediately obvious they've been abandoned and left unfinished. You can't loose money buying DIE as it was free and having no serves renders it unplayable (as opposed to broken as feck, which an abandoned game likely is). I think EA was slightly misleading for it anyway (if it was) as being an online, competitive game it would have been in constant development even after it was "finished".

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@flag True I never thought about it like that for some reason

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Oh, too bad. I played it quite a bit this summer and it was fun & different from other mobas.

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Kentucky Route Zero :( i hope they decide to retake it someday </3

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KRZ's case is even worse since it's not an Early Access title because it came out before EA started.

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I want the game finisheeeeeeed :( it looks so freakin good </3

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Got a funny feeling we'll still be wondering about it two years from now.

Asked for a refund on it but nope. Got zero interest in it now, same goes for all things episodic :D

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I dont mind about episodic things if they are good at the end, most of the telltale games are awesome and Life if Feels i mean, Strange is pretty good ... i havent played Blues and Bullets yet but i hope to do that soon

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Blues and Bullets is good, friend gifted me the first episode so I'll snag the rest when it's done :)

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but as far as i know, KRZ is not abandonded, right?. they just need a lot of time. but it will be completed in the end.

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Atm is abandoned, they dont even answer questions from people about the last episodes since a long time, and they also had like a self proposed deadline for the next episode and it has been a long time since the deadline is over and still no chapter + answers ... :/ so i don't know .

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ok, that makes me worry a little. ^^ i am still kind of confident it will be finished in the end.

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I hope so 2, we will see what happens at the end :D I hope they finished the game because the concept and the artstyle is just awesome.

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i played only the first episode so far. and it was pretty great. i wanted to wait until it's finished. seems, i have to wait a little longer then. ;)

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good to know. :)

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First time I read about this. :( I added the game to my wishlist two years ago and haven't been to the store page lately so it was a shock to see the reviews now.

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Yeah... it sucks really bad :/ i hope it gets done.

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Starforge, the day it was shown it looked so promising and now it's not that far away from where it was in the beginning and the devs went on to make other early access games which I bet they'll abandon again.

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Day Z

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did the developers ditch that? I never ended up getting it

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I own it and just tried it out again recently. I can confirm that it's as broken as on the first day of EA.

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This is certainly not true.

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no he is just trolling

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True. Not really abandonded yet, but it probably will be.
Shame, because it had so much potential and I loved the thrill..

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Not really abandonded yet, but it probably will be.

& what do you base this on?

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Got more than 100h on DayZ. Less updates, smaller updates, major bugs are still there.
They earned a ton of money already. Even with a finished product, they already sold enough copies.
Don't think there is much space for more sales. Especially when H1Z1 turns F2P.
And I thinking about it, because it could've been such a great game.

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But the game is still being updated, nonetheless. In no way are those issues a cause for BI to abandon the game. Do you read the fortnightly status reports?

I don't feel the game is receiving less updates, nor do I feel the updates are getting smaller, but that's just me, of course. I feel updates have always been few & far between.

Also, considering that the game will be heading to consoles, there is still a tonne of more room for sales.

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You should know that buying an early access you become an IT engineer

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+1

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Spacebase DF-9 :/

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Tim Schafer is a great PR person, but a horrible studio manager.

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Dead or Alive 5 Last Round.

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'Claustrophobia: The Downward Struggle'. It was a promising roguelike but unfortunately it got abandoned without the developer giving any reason why. He just stopped updating it and posting in the forums.

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Freakin' Game of Thrones. Dumbest Telltale release (episodic ones) ever.

Not abandoned, but the final release is taking so long. Very annoyed.

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Same with "The Fall" , i loved that game, but the no final its annoying xD

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They're going to release it, I don't see the problem. If you don't like episodic games you should buy them when they're finished

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Into the War. It even got removed a while ago.

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Towns - this had a lot of potential to be a very fun city builder.

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Any others?

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You can search yourself since usually abandoned games get too many negative reviews.

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