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No Rest for the Wicked dev defends early access, says Dark Souls would've benefitted

Moon Studios CEO Thomas Mahler has defended the studio's decision to launch its latest game No Rest for the Wicked in e…

In a lengthy statement on social media platform X, Mahler discussed the benefits of an early access launch and said he's "confident" more games will be released in this way in future. "We're not even a week into early access and it's already pretty clear that going with EA is one of the best decisions we could've made," he began, before noting some players are "irked" by games releasing like this. Plenty of high profile games are launching in early access, perhaps most notably in recent years the likes of Hades and Baldur's Gate 3, which both went on to massive success.

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