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Steam adds warning flagging potentially abandoned early access games


Valve has quietly implmented a useful new Steam feature warning users - and potential purchasers - how long it's been s…

Valve has quietly implmented a useful new Steam feature warning users - and potential purchasers - how long it's been since an early access game last received an update. Steam early access has unquestionably helped a huge number of games get over the development finish line since its introduction in 2013, including some major success stories - Hades, Subnautica, RimWorld, Rust, Ark: Survival Evolved, and Larian Studios' 2023 smash hit Baldur's Gate 3 were all early access releases, for instance. Watch on YouTube Users viewing an affected release will now see a message in its early access box warning, "The last update made by the developer was over [x] months ago.

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