StarForge daily deal and Early Access sale discussion

Damn, I bought it full price, not expecting it to go on sale due to the fact that it was early access. :(

I think that Steam needs to set some actual rules for what early access is before promoting it too heavily. Developers have such wildly different expectations and uses that it's hard to really know what to expect from an early access game. Some games, like Planetary Annihilation and Solforge, use early access as another source of crowdfunding, and have incredibly high prices in order to make sure that only dedicated people will purchase it and that their feedback will be valuable and good. Other games, like Don't Starve and Arma 3, have their early access cheaper and with a variety of perks to encourage as many people to come in and test it as possible. And then, of course, there's the difference in level of completion in all early access games. Folk Tale is essentially a tech demo while Kerbal Space Program just needs more content to be done.

I think the only real problem with Early Access is that Valve doesn't really have a clear image of what it wants Early Access to be and how it should function.

They just need money to complete the game, and if no one buys it then it's going to daily

Idk but its tempting on sale, looks so fun.

So, it's basically like Minecraft, but a lot more advanced?

Gnomoria was on sale a few weeks ago and it's early access.

To be honest, I'm not sure if I'm impressed... But who knows, maybe it'll look better in the future/

Im a bit worried. for me, if a early access game goes on sale, it's a sign that devs just want more $$$ to get more sales or to encourage themselves on continuing developing the game

"StarForge - because the world needs yet another sandbox game with no goals"

I probably will get that on -50% sale. :-)

I bought Starforge pretty much when it launched together with Early Access on steam and I must say I am very disappointed with the developers.

All they done was REMOVE the terrain digging mode from their non steam release, then after some months add infinite terrain and vehicles.
Ressource gathering is still not possible, procedural weapons that were long promised are still not implemented properly and there has been pretty much no feature update since steam-"release" beside the vehicles and infinite terrain (which to be honest does look good).

I just hope they will get it together and add some things soon, but like I said - so far I am disappointed.

To me, it shows that it was poorly priced to begin with.
Early access should be no more than $10.00, ever.
Move the price up when it's in Beta, then again when it's complete.

My major issue is that the sale price is cheaper than that of their indiegogo campaign where I bought it for $15 helping enable it to be created in the first place

Trailer looked awesome, I realized its in Alpha but I can't do half the stuff in the trailer...Uhh what gives? That and the fact that I get like 15fps...but I expected stuff like that in alpha I guess, just the lack of well stuff shown is disturbing me.

I'd be interested in this game in its final form but from what i've heard it's going forward terribly slowly.

On the other hand, i'm kickstarter supporter for Planet Explorers, looks a lot like Starforge but the devs are far more active and communicative (also, v0.60, the first "backers/paid only" alpha version, just released, older versions are free to try out).

no early access for me..expecially at tis prices...usually in the past, they do beta access for free..for beta test, now we must pay?? no way.

It's probably for promotion. To get word out of the game. Any game that goes on sale gets featured pretty prominently on the main Store page. Drawing people in that otherwise never would have taken a look.

Also, yes, they probably want money to help with development and what not. Hence the expensive "Founder" purchase option being more pricey than it probably should be. Though Founder appears to be a pre-order only type of purchase option

Not a problem anymore ! :D