Paying for Early Access of a soon to be free to play game. Yes or no?

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SvennoJ said:

LegitHyperbole said:

Cool. So I'm n0t the only one. Anyone out there that can reason this particularly query. @SvennoJ Why did you choose to buy into Early Access on PoE 2 when you know the game is unfinished and it'll be free to play once 1.0 drops. Do you feel you will return to 1.0 or is this session with it gon a be enough? I know you get a lot of hours out of it, watching on the games recommendation thread but 30 euro when you could wait for the finished product for Fred....? Do you feel you got ripped off?

We were looking for something to play together over the holiday. I didn't even know it would be ftp later or that it was only half finished.

Anyway I don't feel ripped off for playing, I do feel kinda iffy about the always online nature and how it pushes you towards the trade website later on. The loot and crafting system really sucks, but the action is so good. Maybe we'll just continue clearing low level maps and not bother with the higher tiers.

No clue if we'll return when the 1.0 hits. I assume it will be a total wipe of all we have achieved so far since it keeps mentioning the 'economy'. Which would be a deathblow for us. Starting over from scratch with nothing will be a great insult. So maybe next holiday D4 gets a shot ;)

Well, that makes sense. They should have clearly marked thus as Early Access and that it'd release as ftp. Hopefully they'll manage to transfer your stuff to the 1.0 version, I guess the good thing is that these types of hack and slash CRPGs are infinitely replayable and the hardcore player base starts from scratch every season which is three months long.

It's just so mind blowing that SO many people bought in for EA with this and on console too, it's going to set a god awful precedent, really wish they had confined EA to PC like usual.