"alpha" stage needs a time frame

[cronic21 0]

i understand buying early access games is voluntarily helping in testing stage, but it is also like pre-ordering a game. it has been "early access alpha" for about a year now, sold millions of copies, and now the lead dev "dean hall" is leaving the project this year. to me that sounds like fraud. they have sold a project and then abandoned it without finishing it for those of us that have purchased it.

we did not only pay for "early access" we also paid for the finished product in time.

[claws4life 99]

gotta love how people make new accounts before making posts like these :D

[cronic21 0]

p.s. replies with nothing to add to the topic or even about the topic will be considered as spam. i have been reading these forums for months, bought the game the day it came out, and have been patiently waiting to give my review. a year later still in alpha shows no signs of ever leaving the stage.

[SmashT 10907]

The alpha time-frame is communicated on the Steam store page before you purchase the game.. "We estimate that reaching Beta version with all key features present will take more than one year from current stage"

 

Dean said that when he is no longer critical to the games development, he wants to go home and leave a leadership position. Nobody has said he is leaving during the Alpha phase of the project, in fact entirely the opposite. The title, the experience, and the feature goals outlined on Steam -will- be delivered, at no point in time has any of this been called into question.

 

There is a very large team now working on DayZ, all very passionate, talented, experienced developers. It's rather insulting to them to suggest that without Rocket the whole project would suddenly implode. 

 

The team have been very transparent with their time tables, and development progress - This project will not be rushed, it will continue with the exact 2.5 to 3 year development cycle that has been repeatedly communicated.