I am really fatigued with early access. So many games end up in ea limbo because there is hardly any pull toward releasing a full game.
I even got noticably less excited for No Rest For The Wicked from Moon Studios when I found out it was going to be early access. I adored the Ori games and the ethos behind Wicked seemed refreshing and exciting, but my first impression of it has already been wasted on a half baked early access product which is enormously rough around the edges and lacking the refinement their titles are known for. I haven’t bought it, to try to save what fraction of my excitement for the game I have left, for the full release. But man.
I kinda wish ea in general was handled more like a semi-closed beta, where folks could “apply” (with little barrier to entry) to play the game early with some sort of caveat that feedback on the product is expected or at least heavily encouraged. And also with some sort of tangible roadmap and release window, so we don’t get a bunch of games like this and Star Citizen which live in ea for eternity