I'm with you. Hopefully the walls won't break down completely. I'll spend much of tomorrow playing the game myself using different skills that have undergone changes to see if crazy stuff happens. I think the game will be okay stability wise (or at least not much worse off than normal), although I would've preferred to give it another week.
So about Monday, here's the context:
A billion years ago, when we wanted to go into Steam Early Access, people were really pissed about it (Early Access as a concept - not us doing it). I don't remember the details but there had been some actual scam and a few abandoned projects or something along those lines, and people were understandably mad.
When we wanted to join, our Steam rep said he rather we didn't, and so we asked him if we could do our own thing, which we got the go ahead for.
Since then, Valve have found their groove with Early Access, it's been more normalized, and the Steam Early access rules were changed without us knowing about them. One of the key additions? You can't run an Early Access-like setup without also appearing on Early Access. A very fair rule, for sure - we were just caught up doing what we'd always been doing.
So anyway, our Steam Contact has since left Valve, and very recently we heard from them and learned that we're currently in violation of the Early Access rules. It's a bit ironic how close we were to releasing on Steam Early Access for other reasons entirely.
Rather than give Valve lip about how we'd rather hold it off for another week, we thought the more tactful approach would be to admit fault (for not reading up on things) and just push out the game swiftly.
Again, it's not like the game is a flaming mess right now. More like... in a rather peaceful valley surrounded by a dozen volcanoes that may or may not turn said valley into said flaming mess
So about Monday, here's the context:
A billion years ago, when we wanted to go into Steam Early Access, people were really pissed about it (Early Access as a concept - not us doing it). I don't remember the details but there had been some actual scam and a few abandoned projects or something along those lines, and people were understandably mad.
When we wanted to join, our Steam rep said he rather we didn't, and so we asked him if we could do our own thing, which we got the go ahead for.
Since then, Valve have found their groove with Early Access, it's been more normalized, and the Steam Early access rules were changed without us knowing about them. One of the key additions? You can't run an Early Access-like setup without also appearing on Early Access. A very fair rule, for sure - we were just caught up doing what we'd always been doing.
So anyway, our Steam Contact has since left Valve, and very recently we heard from them and learned that we're currently in violation of the Early Access rules. It's a bit ironic how close we were to releasing on Steam Early Access for other reasons entirely.
Rather than give Valve lip about how we'd rather hold it off for another week, we thought the more tactful approach would be to admit fault (for not reading up on things) and just push out the game swiftly.
Again, it's not like the game is a flaming mess right now. More like... in a rather peaceful valley surrounded by a dozen volcanoes that may or may not turn said valley into said flaming mess