Originally posted by Shurenai:

Why do people have this perpetual impression that staying in early access is 'milking' early access?

words. i dont like massive quote replies (not trying to offend you).

Quite a few EA games never, ever leave EA. and thats because they can "milk" it. never finish the project, get some money and generate hype, free press (or paid press) and generate more money. a released title is generally a one and done deal, with sales and patches to generate hype.
Its easier, imo, for an EA game to add a basic feature into the game finally, and generate hype because it doesnt have it, its ea, etc etc.
Dont get me wrong, i love this game. I loved it the moment it hit EA and watched it carefully. I'm one of the people that won't buy any ea game, all ea games i have in my library were gifted to me by friends.
I'm not a fan of ea, and i dont want to see this game fall into the same traps that other games like 7days, and Project zombie did.