Yep. However, games were of a much higher quality (for their time) before Early Access became a standard. Early Access created a new requirement for those avenues for investment, while they already existed. So to say that EA is something that’s necessary to fetch more funding is accurate today, it’s not the cause of EA being conceptualized and implemented in the market, it was a reaction to the first games that used EA.

Diablo 4 for me. Long time fan and they hyped me up so much about returning to their roots and it was literally the straw that broke the camel’s back for me. D4 is where I said to myself “they’re just a different company now.”

Now they have me absurdly hyped for season of discovery, and I’m roped right back in. This one seams good, though🤞

Average probably isn’t a good metric for this—you want median. Because most people do not read a single book.