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Any idea when this game will be out of early access?
About a decade ago
It started about then, and hasn't stopped. Years later, they continually release major updates like this that keep making big changes to a lot of aspects of the game and fixing issues, working toward the eventual full release. I'd rather just wait and play the full game.
It's not in early access. Concerned Ape rolls out updates just because he loves the game and wants to give back to the fanbase. The full game is out and available.
You should view these updates like expansion packs.
It's literally not. This very post shows how. The full game is slowly being released to you over the years. These are big updates that fundamentally change how some things work in the game. The updates aren't just adding extra post-game content or something. Someone playing the game today is going to have a different experience than someone playing a year from now, even in the early-game.
If you like this kind of constantly-evolving game, then good for you. You are free to enjoy it. I miss when games were released as a completed product.
You have clearly never played Stardew Valley and are fundamentally misunderstanding what the game is and what these updates add.
I had played many hours and experienced a few major updates that frustrated me. These updates added/changed things that altered the outcome of choices that I had made with the previous version of the game in mind.
It's been years since I have played the game at all, so I can't remember specifics about my farm. But I remember creating a building and dedicating it to wine aging or something, then there was some update that affected something like how wine works that made me regret even filling that building with casks to begin with. If that had always been how wine had worked, I would have taken a very different path with my farm. I can't remember if it was specifically aging/casks that had changed, but that's just a hypothetical example of the sort of things that change and cause frustration. Or how that second town bulletin board thing was added with new side quests. If those quests had always been in the game, I may have focused on completing those tasks instead of making another cave run or something.
It's just frustrating to follow updates that change the rules of the game. I would rather be able to create a farm and make choices to optimize it knowing that this is the one set of rules that my farm will ever be beholden to. If I have to wait a while until the game is finished, that is fine.
AAA games get updates that change gameplay slightly all the time. Why is Stardew Valley unique in this to you?
Being AAA or indie makes no difference. I also make the same complaints about AAA games that change like this. Stardew Valley is absolutely not unique here. I am just being an old man yelling at clouds because I am remembering how things were 30 years ago.
Ok then.
I've also been frustrated by the experience of games I've paid for changing into something else with no possibility of getting my money back. I wish developers would release games as early access if they're not finished working on them, so people who don't want this could avoid it.
From what I understand, Steam refunds are pretty relaxed with this. Even if you are outside of the automatic "no questions asked" two-week return window (or whatever it is for Steam), I have heard that if you explain in your refund request that an update changed the game in a significant enough way that it has ruined the gameplay for you, the Steam representative reviewing the request tends to approve the refund.
That's fair, it'll probably be done when he's dead, given that his continued additions are because he feels like adding more. This and terraria, and other games of the sort should be seen as something fundamentally different from early access though.
Ultimately if you don't like games that have free expansions added every once in a while in perpetuity, this isn't the game for you and famously so