Hytale is OUT NOW in early access!
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.ca/c/hytale/p/450908/hytale-is-out-now-in-early-access
Note: Not my screenshot
It's been over 7 years since the game was announced, and after being cancelled by Riot and bought back by the original devs, against all odds it is FINALLY playable!
The game was supposed to come out in an hour but it seems the devs released it early. I'll wait and see some early gameplay but it looks like I might buy it on launch day. Feels surreal that the wait is finally over.
Not on steam, not on my radar.
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But Minecraft - even in the Beta days - worked as a complete game. They have been improving (depending on how you like the changes) on it since, but it wasn't ever filled with literal work in progress signs like Hytale is…
Yes, but Minecraft was on sale for a year before it ever went into "Beta," back before it was in Alpha even. In fact, it wasn't until one of the last Alpha updates that the earliest semblance of "Minecraft" as we know it really began to appear. The Beta updates added a lot of core features we take for granted in the game, like beds for sleeping, tall grass for seeds, redstone repeaters, pistons, sprinting, hunger, etc.
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The first purchasable version of Minecraft I remember didn't even have a working health bar.
Notch sold the game to Microsoft long before it was ever a complete game. Why program something when you can sell players on an idea and then sell that idea to Microsoft?
Notch sold the game to Microsoft long before it was ever a complete game.
I know it’s a bit fuzzy with Minecraft since it’s constantly getting updates, but I find the claim that Minecraft was “incomplete” before selling it to Microsoft is a big stretch.
Version “1.0” came out 3 years before the Microsoft sale, and at least to me, the game felt “complete” long before 1.0
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I love steam as much as the next guy but monopolies are bad and we should support other businesses when we can. When Gabe dies who knows what happens to all the steam games you "own"
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I fear that early access will kill this. Sure it will provide some money that might pay for the rest of the development, but streamers will play it now - der that it is literally work in progress in vast parts and maybe take another look once it finally releases, but the hype will be gone at the release.
For this game it was either this or the game never released at all though
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Your loss.
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What kind of game is it? Is it like Minecraft/roblox as the screenshot suggests?
I would guess it‘s probably closer to Roblox or modern Minecraft. Hypixel started the project to have a constant money flow so expect monetization left and right.
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.ca/c/hytale/p/450908/hytale-is-out-now-in-early-access
Note: Not my screenshot
It's been over 7 years since the game was announced, and after being cancelled by Riot and bought back by the original devs, against all odds it is FINALLY playable!
The game was supposed to come out in an hour but it seems the devs released it early. I'll wait and see some early gameplay but it looks like I might buy it on launch day. Feels surreal that the wait is finally over.
I've been looking at it from afar and it's nice to see some people trying to innovate upon the Minecraft formula ; though in this case I think the Hypixel people and I enjoy different things about Minecraft.
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.ca/c/hytale/p/450908/hytale-is-out-now-in-early-access
Note: Not my screenshot
It's been over 7 years since the game was announced, and after being cancelled by Riot and bought back by the original devs, against all odds it is FINALLY playable!
The game was supposed to come out in an hour but it seems the devs released it early. I'll wait and see some early gameplay but it looks like I might buy it on launch day. Feels surreal that the wait is finally over.
After so many years of development drama and criticism surrounding Hypixel themselves even before they actively worked on this… I think I‘m good. Playable doesn‘t mean you will get the full experience for a one time payment. Hypixel live and breathe live service.
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I love steam as much as the next guy but monopolies are bad and we should support other businesses when we can. When Gabe dies who knows what happens to all the steam games you "own"
My grocery store is a monopoly, the products in it aren't.
I don't want to shop at 1000 different stores that will all sell my information to brokers. If you do, that's fine, shopping around gets cheaper prices but you pay with your time.
I'll keep shopping at the one store.
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Not on any other platform than W11
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My grocery store is a monopoly, the products in it aren't.
I don't want to shop at 1000 different stores that will all sell my information to brokers. If you do, that's fine, shopping around gets cheaper prices but you pay with your time.
I'll keep shopping at the one store.
Does your grocery store sell licenses for the products you buy? I don't think the grocery store can take away the food you buy there if they simply decide to do so.
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I love steam as much as the next guy but monopolies are bad and we should support other businesses when we can. When Gabe dies who knows what happens to all the steam games you "own"
Agree to that, bought games like Factorio and Vintage Story straight from the developer instead of through steam. It does help when the game natively supports Linux, if it doesn't then yeah Steam it is.
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Does your grocery store sell licenses for the products you buy? I don't think the grocery store can take away the food you buy there if they simply decide to do so.
All the more reason to choose a 'grocer' you trust rather than a fly-by-night online store.
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Back in my day games were finished before they were released.
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.ca/c/hytale/p/450908/hytale-is-out-now-in-early-access
Note: Not my screenshot
It's been over 7 years since the game was announced, and after being cancelled by Riot and bought back by the original devs, against all odds it is FINALLY playable!
The game was supposed to come out in an hour but it seems the devs released it early. I'll wait and see some early gameplay but it looks like I might buy it on launch day. Feels surreal that the wait is finally over.
Exciting! Can't wait to try it out.
Love that it has Linux support.
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Not true apparently it works on linux as well.
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I fear that early access will kill this. Sure it will provide some money that might pay for the rest of the development, but streamers will play it now - der that it is literally work in progress in vast parts and maybe take another look once it finally releases, but the hype will be gone at the release.
"The hype will be gone argument" seems irrelevant.
This is not some live-service games.
They don't really need to be continuous growfth of fans.
Almost all games with continous growth have some predatory system.As long their business is sustainable, they can finish continue their journey even when things get dip a bit.
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Back in my day games were finished before they were released.
Let's be real, older games content is much more smaller, or if they want to update things they will sell you a second installment or something.
Except for online games.
