Marques

So that's really interesting.

Why did people buy PUBG so much if it was so broken?

It must have been so good.

It was still really good.

You still have to get over the threshold of being really good so that if it does have bugs, it's still worth trying.

it is but just like in all those scenarios too like people assumed that the game would be finished and you're like paying 30 bucks to get the game and you'll keep it once it comes out as a full release but then they just kept realizing like we're the most popular game on steam right now everybody's playing us that's the thing we just don't need to leave alpha they may if people vote with their wallets and it turns out the thing that they're voting on is we don't actually care if the game is finished we just care that it's good now then everyone takes the hint and just starts copying that

yeah what even kind of like alpha and beta and in a game gamma in a game i guess there's just unfinished features that are not ready or like different modes or whatever that they're going to ship that they're not ready to ship yet but they ship one mode and it's like isn't that just all software now though yeah well that's what we're saying yeah there was some inflection point where that became the standard to ship something and charge people for it that's not done yet right and people became okay with it because the part that they're buying was good enough

Yeah, like Star Citizen.

The game that is still technically in early access.

I was going to say, I'm minorly wrong already.

I guess it did technically get a 1.0 release in 2017.

It was out for a bit before that.

But the first game became insanely popular in alpha.

And I guess they did update it.

So maybe it's not all PUBG's fault, but I'm still blaming it.

You know, it's like, look at this.

I feel like we're all buying beta software lately.

The game Star Citizen, which is still in early access alpha, has nearly weighed one billion dollars.

Nine hundred and twenty two million five hundred seventy nine thousand nine hundred and seventy eight dollars.

It's not just... It's hardware, too.