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early access can be a great tool for
up-and-coming developers but
unfortunately these guys give the
program a bad name welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 worst
early access ripoffs
for this list we’re looking at titles
from steams early access catalog to find
which developers made a mockery of the
system if you’re expecting the
slaughtering grounds you might be
surprised to hear that that was not an
early access game so it doesn’t make the
list number ten Tugg wild tug or the
untitled game was good for a few hours
of unfinished fun it ended up being a
huge disappointment
tugs started with promise complete with
a level had to develop the team a great
Kickstarter campaign and big ambitions
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they kept their bands up to date on
recent updates and stayed in touch
throughout the development process then
the updates flowed then they became
almost non-existent then the team
dropped off the face of the earth they
have since announced plans making tugs
free to play in the future which
irritated many backers and when coupled
with the months of silence since the
announcement the community has been left
feeding and Confused number nine time
ramesside a new reckoning
time ramesside follows the adventures of
a man who discovers a new way to harvest
energy from living things at least
that’s what we think it’s about because
the game is such an incomplete disaster
that we can’t even tell what we’re doing
the title was designed by one man and
unfortunately he is known in the gaming
community for allegedly being kind of a
fraud
the game screams scam as players have no
sense of direction
enemies followed no set rules and often
glitch out and the game is clearly not
designed with any sense of care if that
wasn’t all evidence has surfaced a forum
users being banned for voicing their
negative opinions not that there are
that many good ones out there either
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break the dead linger this really could
have been a good game complete with an
explorable and procedurally generated
world set in these zombie apocalypse
unfortunately we’ll never know as it has
since been cancelled and everyone left
kinda ripped off
while fans were given three years to
play the incomplete game the constant
engine changes and perceived lack of
progress began to irritate even the most
devout to followers they had a right to
be worried as in November 2015
sand swept Studios indefinitely halted
the game’s development citing a lack of
necessary fun like the enemies found in
the game the dead linger is officially a
rotten shell of its once promising self
number seven goddess it’s probably the
hardest thing another month really
because you does know where to hide
following the trend of using Kickstarter
in order to crowdsource independent
games
the infamous Peter Molyneux and his
studio 22cans were able to raise roughly
five hundred and thirty thousand pounds
for goddess quite a chunk of change
Peters also because he basically took
the money and ran nowadays you don’t
finish again you know the day of release
of goddess is just another day of
development over time the staff of
22cans was significantly reduced and
Molyneux all but abandoned the project
meaning Steam users in a fury due to his
lack of involvement with many calling
him a liar and demanding refund to make
matters worse Molyneux all but admitted
to lying about the game’s potential in
order to raise more money that’s not
really a surprise as he has quite a
track record of overhyping his games use
all of your weapons all of the time and
all of your magics pain combined your
magics together and I should be able to
do the all that were just simple button
number 6 town
when you release a beta version of your
game it’s probably best to let your
customers know that it’s actually an
unfinished product this was the
situation that SMP found themselves in
when they released towns via Steam
greenlight as a beta products to
unsuspecting customers it was evident to
those unfortunate buyers the towns was
way too far from being a finished
product and many people were
understandably upset to make matters
worse those that purchased the beta
version and stuck around throughout the
various updates for whatever reasons
were never given a completed product SMP
soon suffer from burnout and abandoned
the project while their successor
Florian frakkin burger never finished
development that was money well spent
number five space bass df9 this game has
players maintaining a space station full
of life while fending off alien attacks
and no it is not nearly as exciting as
it sounds it’s also not complete
after the concept was praised and voted
on by irfan development soon began and
excited players were given early access
to the game sooner or later they were
given the range to the game itself
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Double Fine eventually abandoned ship
and end its development giving the
public at source code instead yes
players who wish to see a completed game
actually have to finish it themself and
yes they’re actually doing so as a
number of community patches have been
released that’s dedication right there
before star Forge checking the perimeter
star Forge is a great example of a
promising title that was Spain fully let
down by an incompetent and carefree
development team
while players are more than aware that
alpha games will not exactly be
masterpieces star Forge is just filled
to the brim with horrible performance
issues and dreadfully boring gameplay it
was also plagued with long update times
constant changes in price misleading
product descriptions and a general lack
of progress or care in the hearts of
developers and what’s the full release
version worth all the blood sweat and
tears you can probably guess number
three the stomping land
when it was first announced the stomping
land hunted like an original and
exciting title as you would play in an
open world filled with dinosaurs
dinosaurs what’s not to love well a lot
of things for one the game tricked
players with an early access trailer
showing off features that were never in
the released alpha wow this is normal
for an early access title fans were
understandably pissed especially when
coupled with the game’s crappy
performance the ps2 resistance came when
the developer team regularly provided
updates via the game forums went AWOL
and abandoned contact with the game’s
fanbase it was soon completely pulled
from Steam and everyone’s money went
with it
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number two earth years 20 66 because I
hold on to his stomachs it feels that
this is going to be a queasy experience
let’s go listed in the store page as a
first-person apocalyptic open-world game
earth 2066 was more of a bug filled
desolate barely functioning next the
developers even got into it with Jim
sterling once he criticized the game and
they began to take down negative posts
in the steam forum well this got a must
view of the entirety of the map it was a
total disaster of both a game and how to
handle relations with your players and
the title was eventually cake and also
steam due to misleading product
descriptions in marketing luckily buyers
were able to apply for a full refund
within a certain window of time which is
almost unheard of on Steam the game and
the resulting drama were equally bad
that’s truly it that was us 2066
everybody number one infestation
survivor stories previously known as the
War Z where do we even start when the
Alpha was released for 30 bucks
it was certainly no masterpiece in that
terrible animations frequent glitches
and an abundance of teeters oh but the
microtransactions were working fine
because priorities amazingly this game
did get a final release yes it was
completely devoid of advertised features
and the head developer blames the
players for miss reading information
rather than admitting his deception
negative reviews were also pulled and
their writers span despite them already
paying for access to the game this
resulted in steams temporarily pulling
the finished product and issuing refunds
a move that was unprecedented at the
time so do you agree with our list
what early access game did you feel
ripped you off
with more fulfilling top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
[Music]
early access can be a great tool for
up-and-coming developers but
unfortunately these guys give the
program a bad name welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 worst
early access ripoffs
for this list we’re looking at titles
from steams early access catalog to find
which developers made a mockery of the
system if you’re expecting the
slaughtering grounds you might be
surprised to hear that that was not an
early access game so it doesn’t make the
list number ten Tugg wild tug or the
untitled game was good for a few hours
of unfinished fun it ended up being a
huge disappointment
tugs started with promise complete with
a level had to develop the team a great
Kickstarter campaign and big ambitions
[Music]
they kept their bands up to date on
recent updates and stayed in touch
throughout the development process then
the updates flowed then they became
almost non-existent then the team
dropped off the face of the earth they
have since announced plans making tugs
free to play in the future which
irritated many backers and when coupled
with the months of silence since the
announcement the community has been left
feeding and Confused number nine time
ramesside a new reckoning
time ramesside follows the adventures of
a man who discovers a new way to harvest
energy from living things at least
that’s what we think it’s about because
the game is such an incomplete disaster
that we can’t even tell what we’re doing
the title was designed by one man and
unfortunately he is known in the gaming
community for allegedly being kind of a
fraud
the game screams scam as players have no
sense of direction
enemies followed no set rules and often
glitch out and the game is clearly not
designed with any sense of care if that
wasn’t all evidence has surfaced a forum
users being banned for voicing their
negative opinions not that there are
that many good ones out there either
[Music]
break the dead linger this really could
have been a good game complete with an
explorable and procedurally generated
world set in these zombie apocalypse
unfortunately we’ll never know as it has
since been cancelled and everyone left
kinda ripped off
while fans were given three years to
play the incomplete game the constant
engine changes and perceived lack of
progress began to irritate even the most
devout to followers they had a right to
be worried as in November 2015
sand swept Studios indefinitely halted
the game’s development citing a lack of
necessary fun like the enemies found in
the game the dead linger is officially a
rotten shell of its once promising self
number seven goddess it’s probably the
hardest thing another month really
because you does know where to hide
following the trend of using Kickstarter
in order to crowdsource independent
games
the infamous Peter Molyneux and his
studio 22cans were able to raise roughly
five hundred and thirty thousand pounds
for goddess quite a chunk of change
Peters also because he basically took
the money and ran nowadays you don’t
finish again you know the day of release
of goddess is just another day of
development over time the staff of
22cans was significantly reduced and
Molyneux all but abandoned the project
meaning Steam users in a fury due to his
lack of involvement with many calling
him a liar and demanding refund to make
matters worse Molyneux all but admitted
to lying about the game’s potential in
order to raise more money that’s not
really a surprise as he has quite a
track record of overhyping his games use
all of your weapons all of the time and
all of your magics pain combined your
magics together and I should be able to
do the all that were just simple button
number 6 town
when you release a beta version of your
game it’s probably best to let your
customers know that it’s actually an
unfinished product this was the
situation that SMP found themselves in
when they released towns via Steam
greenlight as a beta products to
unsuspecting customers it was evident to
those unfortunate buyers the towns was
way too far from being a finished
product and many people were
understandably upset to make matters
worse those that purchased the beta
version and stuck around throughout the
various updates for whatever reasons
were never given a completed product SMP
soon suffer from burnout and abandoned
the project while their successor
Florian frakkin burger never finished
development that was money well spent
number five space bass df9 this game has
players maintaining a space station full
of life while fending off alien attacks
and no it is not nearly as exciting as
it sounds it’s also not complete
after the concept was praised and voted
on by irfan development soon began and
excited players were given early access
to the game sooner or later they were
given the range to the game itself
[Music]
Double Fine eventually abandoned ship
and end its development giving the
public at source code instead yes
players who wish to see a completed game
actually have to finish it themself and
yes they’re actually doing so as a
number of community patches have been
released that’s dedication right there
before star Forge checking the perimeter
star Forge is a great example of a
promising title that was Spain fully let
down by an incompetent and carefree
development team
while players are more than aware that
alpha games will not exactly be
masterpieces star Forge is just filled
to the brim with horrible performance
issues and dreadfully boring gameplay it
was also plagued with long update times
constant changes in price misleading
product descriptions and a general lack
of progress or care in the hearts of
developers and what’s the full release
version worth all the blood sweat and
tears you can probably guess number
three the stomping land
when it was first announced the stomping
land hunted like an original and
exciting title as you would play in an
open world filled with dinosaurs
dinosaurs what’s not to love well a lot
of things for one the game tricked
players with an early access trailer
showing off features that were never in
the released alpha wow this is normal
for an early access title fans were
understandably pissed especially when
coupled with the game’s crappy
performance the ps2 resistance came when
the developer team regularly provided
updates via the game forums went AWOL
and abandoned contact with the game’s
fanbase it was soon completely pulled
from Steam and everyone’s money went
with it
[Music]
number two earth years 20 66 because I
hold on to his stomachs it feels that
this is going to be a queasy experience
let’s go listed in the store page as a
first-person apocalyptic open-world game
earth 2066 was more of a bug filled
desolate barely functioning next the
developers even got into it with Jim
sterling once he criticized the game and
they began to take down negative posts
in the steam forum well this got a must
view of the entirety of the map it was a
total disaster of both a game and how to
handle relations with your players and
the title was eventually cake and also
steam due to misleading product
descriptions in marketing luckily buyers
were able to apply for a full refund
within a certain window of time which is
almost unheard of on Steam the game and
the resulting drama were equally bad
that’s truly it that was us 2066
everybody number one infestation
survivor stories previously known as the
War Z where do we even start when the
Alpha was released for 30 bucks
it was certainly no masterpiece in that
terrible animations frequent glitches
and an abundance of teeters oh but the
microtransactions were working fine
because priorities amazingly this game
did get a final release yes it was
completely devoid of advertised features
and the head developer blames the
players for miss reading information
rather than admitting his deception
negative reviews were also pulled and
their writers span despite them already
paying for access to the game this
resulted in steams temporarily pulling
the finished product and issuing refunds
a move that was unprecedented at the
time so do you agree with our list
what early access game did you feel
ripped you off
with more fulfilling top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
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