Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. I’d assume the people who wanted to play valheim or palworld were playing it the years it was in early access, not just waiting until the day it 1.0 to have interest in it. Especially palword was a cultural phenomenon before its full release. Valheim had a pretty significant modding community before full release.
Idk man. It just seems to be that “1.0 release” should be viewed as basically just a big content update, not “alright, now it’s out for real!”
Except for a situation like BG3, where the early access was actually the first little bit of the game. It was really a long demo more than early access. But a demo that you paid a good chunk of change for LOL
Like I loved palworld and Valheim and 7 days to die, but it wasn’t like 1.0 took it from basically a demo to “wow, now it’s a full game!” It was a full game before they just dropped a big content update
Eh, for games like Palworld the 1.0 saw its player numbers go up 20x from what it was sustaining. I think there were definitely a huge number of people who bought the game initially, played it for a bit, forgot about it because it was kind of chopped, and then came back for 1.0.
I think Valheim initially released in a better state so it didn't have as much of a drop off as Palworld did, so its 1.0 wasn't as big (although still pretty big).
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Kinda forgot about enshrouded. Pretty cool, I don’t know why it didn’t hook me to play early this year. I’m usually into this kind of thing