Should i buy starbound?

I don't know about you, but if they keep the ridiculously annoying grindy early game crap+forced ore drops that they have in the nightly, in the game itself? You couldn't PAY me to wipe my character and have to go through THAT crap.

 

Well I guess that's why they don't wipe and instead leave it up to you. I don't know about you, but I'd want the most up-to-date items and terrain/planet generation. but I can understand why someone would want otherwise, I guess.

 

It would be extremely easy to get the new items without having to wipe your ship and character. and as far as universe wiping. that's a nonissue outside of backing up specific worlds that you want for your homeworld or something. I don't know of too many people that would care about losing their mined out tunnels on random planet 'z'.

 

yea, I understand. I just know there are a lot out there that prefer to experience naturally rather than spawn in things or delete worlds to force gen. it's not big of a leap

 

My opinion? No, stay far away from this one until full release and then read the reviews afterward. So far the early access program has been absolutely pathetic and worth nowhere near the price of admission.

 

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I would add to this that Starbound specifically is a rather bad example of an early access game. Chucklefish decided to take a chance in order to get a ton of cash before their game was complete. In return they had to meet the challenge of developing their game under the scutiny of their paying customers and providing them with playable builds on regular basis.

Something Chucklefish has failed at terribly.

 

I can say that you should avoid it at its current state, the games not 100% and a lot of the features are still unfinished or unimplemented or subject to a complete reworking, I would say that you should wait till the game is finished or until it reaches a point in development in which the community can inform you is complete enough for you to find enjoyable =)

 

don't buy it if you don't enjoy playing unfinished games. do otherwise. pretty simple.

 

CF didn't even want to take pre-orders at first. I'm fairly sure it was because the community wanted it.

 

Read up on these forums before you hand any money over, especially the locked threads. It's up to you what you do with your money, but I personally regret paying for Starbound. Similarly to what Hefeweizen said, it's been a pretty rough beta/early access program that hasn't been managed very well.

 

I played for early access and I am enjoying it, playing on nightly helps with those "it's been so long without updates" feelings and they made it easy to force progression where problems currently exist.

Yeah, it's not finished.. surprise it's early access. If you don't mind playing an unfinished game go for it. If you do, don't give them money until it's done.

 

I'm sure the dumptruck full of money that they got from Early Access didn't have any baring on that decision. /s

 

That's drifting into the same reasoning some people use to explain why they stopped updates to stable.. Not the right way to look at it.

Pre-orders are not unusual. I don't think any business, with bills to pay, would pass up ANY chance of cashflow. Especially in the early days of a young company, developing it's first game.

I understand where you are coming from, but it's the other way around. You needed the pre-orders to get to the Early Access stage. I wasn't around then, but I haven't seen (or really looked for) a compelling reason or explanation why they had to go Early Access and not just release the game either on, outwith steam. Early Access is about exposure; surely?

 

They went early access because when they started taking preorders they were saying the game would have a full release in 2013, and if they didn't give the community something in 2013 they would have ended up having to pay out a lot of refunds to customers who were no longer interested in the game because of the abysmal development pace. This way they get to have their cake and eat it to. They get all the money from preorders, and they don't have put any effort into their work because there is no danger of having to pay out refunds.

 

The preorders came way before the game was on Steam's Early Access...

 

Would you agree though that the Pre-Orders buyers helped the game to reach Early Access level?

After all, whether alpha, beta or any other greek alphabet designation, Something playable is required for Early Access. Can't put a in idea, a pitch or a kickstarter on Early Access without a playable build.

 

With preorders there was the possibility that if Chucklefish couldn't deliver a product in a timely manor that they would have to start paying out refunds from people who were no longer interested. With the switch to Early Access they can derp around and produce absolutely diddly jack for however long they feel like and never have to suffer financially for it.

 

Yeah, I suppose it did help.

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http://playstarbound.com/

 

I'm well aware of blogs and broken builds.

But seeing as my original comment covers most of what Chucklefish has actually produced, I'm going to stand by it.

Maybe "they can derp around and produce absolutely diddly jack (along with blogs and broken builds)"?