Reborn Mining craftyou are a survival builder Hightail got a fresh one Early Access release date: January 13 next week. However, the team behind it have now confirmed that it shouldn't be expected to appear on Steam for now, with the game's executive director not yet seeing the need to knock on Valve's pipe-filled door and keen to avoid early access being spent drowning in negative reviews.
This comes from the first message with answers to frequently asked questions what the current Hytale developers have released since then obtaining the rights to it from Riot. Immediately, executive director Patrick “Lyall” Derbich asked whether the game would appear on the Steam platform.
“No, not initially,” he wrote. “We want to spend our time in Early Access working with the community and improving the game, rather than replaying negative feedback from players who aren't yet as knowledgeable about what we're doing. Steam is a great marketing tool, but we may never need it. This doesn’t mean we’ll never be on Steam, we just don’t see the need for it yet.”
On one hand, working with a more concentrated group of players from whom you can get deep thoughts on the early stages of the game sounds like a good plan, especially since the team has made it very clear that what people will get on day one will be pretty rough around the edges and will have a lot of room to grow. On the other hand, perhaps there is an argument that the initial avoidance of criticism from people other than those likely already interested in Hytale's offering could potentially create blind spots in terms of it helping to attract a wider audience in the future.
Anyway, I'm not a game developer, and I certainly appreciate the difficult task that any game faces these days: creating a reputation for itself that can attract attention without getting lost in the thick of things. huge avalanche of games constantly compete for players' hours.
In the rest of the FAQ post, Derbick acknowledges things like the fact that the team is working on establishing region-specific pricing and launching it in a “limited number of countries to begin with,” with $20 is the base price worldwide at the moment.. Additional cosmetics will be added, but there will be no pay-to-win offers in terms of monetization. Finally, pets, animal taming, and fishing are all in the works, but won't happen in January.
It's also worth reading the full story if you're unsure about the different variants of the three different Hytale editions that are being sold at once. Derbich and company also shared equipment characteristics you will need to meet to comfortably run the sandbox on your machine.
