Anyone who has done Early Access also knows there are dangers to this. For those of you who want to do this type of thing, understand that your audience is self-selected to the most hardcore and enthusiastic people. They give very big feedback, but it is also feedback for psychotic gamers.
Josh Sawyer at Digital Dragons: Deadfire post-mortem
Isaac Roberts
Blake James
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Sawyer really dropped the ball. He whines that the beta testers weren't the target audience, the ship combat was the most expensive thing for Deadfire, says full VO was added due to streamers giving feedback.
Chase James
oh sorry, can't hear him over the sound of BG3's announcement
Brandon Jones
It was what they did to Ydwin, Josh is just a fucking idiot. GTFO the industry and open your bike shop, Josh.
Michael Torres
That explains why he ignored the backer forums for tumblr and somethingawful
Wyatt Gray
Worked out well for him, didn't it?
Lincoln Bell
>the ship combat was the most expensive thing for Deadfire
Fucking how? It was dice roll 'combat' at it's bare minimum.
Asher Brown
How did he made something horrible? He designed New Vegas for fuck's sake
Carter Green
some of the most expensive shit in games is shit that never makes it to final product
Aiden Jackson
Going from mediocrity to garbage is way easier than going from mediocrity to quality.