Originally posted by Luthien:

So paying $20 for a pre-release means that no one can complain about the lack of a finished product regardless of how much time has passed? In that case they can just call it done and not 'early-access'.

I won't agree with the 'whitelivesmatter' racist, but I will say its been plenty long for them to either hire more dev's or pay their dev's to do the jobs they were hired to do instead of buying a horse. How many devs do they have? What are they working on day-to-day? No one knows.

If they release the update by this fall and it literally doubles or triples the content in the game, then great, its worth waiting for, but I'm willing to bet that there won't be that much new content (if any) and the dev's are just pocketing the money and laughing their way to the bank; in that case you can talk all the trash you want because its justified. Otherwise lets get an ETA please. They could have added construction options, enemies, gear, that wouldn't take a dozen people more than a month or two to make. This game can only fail if the dev's continue as they have by doing practically nothing.

On a side note / caution: This may be a clear example of false advertisement with the makers selling a pre-release game that's 90% done, and saying they intend to complete it, only to leave everyone hanging while they run with the cash with no intention of finishing the game. There should be consequences for any company claiming an 'early access' game will be completed when they have no intention of doing so.

Outside of maybe 1% of the EA games they always take the money and run. Limited updates, no communication. This company is giving frequent updates to keep our hype in check. From the start they said it was a 2 year roadmap. 2 years...

We're 20 months from that timeline. So yeah I think people are out of line to complain at this point. Now if Hearth and Home comes out and it's 3 new meals, 4 new roofs and a couple of hats then well, we still don't have a huge right to complain. But we should be disappointed that it's going the way of most survival games.

That said, this game has more content than any survival game I've played to date outside of Conan. And that's a buggy mess using the Unreal engine. :(