I don’t get why? It’s a great game

It’s a fun game but an ultra competitive market. Either show you’re in it for the long haul or most players will never give you a chance.

I don’t think folks expect to restart when the pre-order perk is 3-days early access… But we live in a world with day one patches on every single game too 🙃

If they were actually concerned about it, Valve could have done real NDA’s and/or plastered the build info and user name on-screen like most game tests. They’ve done it in the past so I assume this was a calculated risk/choice.

Worked for Blizzard before all the Xbox layoffs… The confusing actions are mainly because the gaming division is now it’s own company within Microsoft and responsible for its budget and making revenue for the first time in XBOX’s history. The leadership level all got promotions and new titles, they shared new org charts to everyone, and then the layoffs and closures began almost immediately. It’s no longer about making their user base grow but about making money so expect their games everywhere and to see Game Pass lose features and raise prices.

That’s partly because of actions taken by various governments. Who knows what tech would look like today if Microsoft from the 90s forced us all into Internet Explorer.

Also, more successful examples would be Google. They have done this very thing several times but then keep messing it up lol

Came here to say this.

Without the restrictions of being on App Stores and going through reviews, devs can move so much faster. I feel like two or three times a day it tells me a new version can be grabbed, and it’s caught up to and bypassed the alpha/beta apps from Testflight which get updated once a week (if lucky).

Just the idea/concept felt off… someone should have asked why we need a whole game about a side-character that no one asked for

Ooof… sad for all those devs, but wow was that game was a mistake from the start

Sad to see, but in the end it will hurt them more than the rest of the fediverse.

Wasn’t sure if they’d get to editing it, but I took their idea and swapped the eyes for ee’s