So the whole charging exorbitant amounts of money for "early access" thing really has become the newest shitty trend in the AAA video game industry, and this time with a NDA attached to boot. *facepalm* It's like they looked at how indie devs did things with early access kind of stuff (e.g. Minecraft), and then decided to take that model and pump it up to ludicrously extortionate levels. The worst thing, though? People are buying into it. Some even think it's a "good deal." And that, right there, is why the companies are able to get away with this asinine bullshit and why they continue to do it.
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