To me when it ends is less important than when X and Y issue gets fixed.
The game has already been brought to a playable&stable state couple of versions ago. Recent betas introduced some "new" (not really vital) features but also some new and resurrected bugs are popping up in the process. Calling it "early access" - let's say it is not what they promised it to be. The team no longer listens to suggestions not to mention making them part of the game. When you feel nothing is really definite and they are still open to constructive criticism - this is how I see EA. It was the same with other EA I took part with. And sure you can argue this is not what it means. TW officially denounced the community/team game development approach. The only thing they want is the free quality control team to catch bugs - there are plenty of new people here willing to help. I do it every now and then myself but I see - it's a bit cynical. You can release fixes, patches, and bug reports without calling your game EA.
Absolutely. I've said it two years ago, this is not EA. A different game I am playing right now has been in EA a longer time than Bannerlord. But its an actual EA. The devs post polls for the playerbase to engage with and they use that feedback to improve the game. They post weekly blogs and engage with their community. I don't mind EA when its an actual EA.
I do. It's a fun side mini-game, at least it would be if it was more fleshed out (the moto of Bannerlord).
Based on the pacing and silence from them as they have nothing to provide back, absolutely no faith anything new or improvements (other than fixing bugs/crashes from previous patches).
If they release the modding support for private servers, then people can mod to your heart's content.
It's gonna be a while though...
+1
Q2 2022, which is about now.
I wish it was anything close to the complex to be honest. This game feels like an extremely dumbed down version of the earliest M&B game out there
Its a huge mistake that they didn't remove it long before the public EA, i still cant help but cringe at how smithing made it that far in the game without no one thinking like "Why are we still keeping this stupid arcade mechanic in the game" and not removing it completely
Allegedly it was a very late and rushed addition to the game just before the EA. Armagan thought he'll show off his programming skills and add a potentially interesting feature, while someone else would really make it work within the game during the EA. No one dared to change it too much or, God forbid, scrap it, so here we are.
To be fair, had the rest of the game allowed as much interaction with the world as the trading systemn, Bannerlord would have been a super duper deep game akin to the Paradox Games, but easier to understand (?).
Im more like concerned about the logic behind their priorities. I mean this is a game where you go from rags to riches to the point of running a whole kingdom and they are literally wasting their energy on implementing miscellaneous stuff like smithing as if they actually served a mid and late game that fulfills the actual deal of the game rather than a side mechanic that does not even fit in with the rest of the game.
At least it can be ignored.
This is not possible for OCD minmaxers. They are forced by the gods to use every available exploit and they can't help it.
That was literally the only singleplayer game i ever bought instead of pirating, imagine the hype and the disappointment following it
