Originally posted by CorchitoCooquie:

I never buy a game in early game again. is a fraud. One update a year, and only to craft new foods. Its a eternal early game.

And they don't give news after a month. They made money and left.

IronGate released 26 updates in 2021. Source: https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Version_History

I was an early adopter for Kenshi, before it was published on Steam. It went into Early Access in 2013 and was officially out of Beta by 2018. Kenshi was in development for about 12 years, 5 of which in Early Access. Kenshi is rated Very Positive all time and Overwhelmingly Positive recently.

Is Kenshi a fraud? No. Is Early Access a fraud? No. Can Early Access games be fraudulent? Yes. Is Valheim a fraud? Not at this point in time. It's on its first year on Steam. I'm assuming that it might take perhaps 3-4 more years before it comes out of Beta.

Why am I okay with this? Because $25 Cdn is half an hour worth of my hourly charge out rate. I've gotten 370+ hours out of this game. If I put the dollar worth to the hours played, that's 6.7 cents per hour. I'd say I got my money's worth.