When we announced our pre-order program back in May, we promised that purchasers of our Elite Edition (and their friends) would be “the first to play our prototype this Fall.” We would like to announce that Fall has arrived early this year, apparently in mid-July! In fact, members of the Elite group have already been playing the game for a couple weeks and discussing it on our private forums. As everything seems to be working well (or rather, well enough for a playable prototype), we are announcing publicly that the Elite Edition now gives buyers immediate access to the prototype. (Some disclaimers: prototype access requires an electronic NDA, and the Steam keys are distributed manually once per week.)
We have been inspired and encouraged by all those who have pre-ordered Offworld without any screenshots, videos, or evidence of a working game. Now, at last, we can offer the game. Would love to hear your thoughts on our private forum!
Please stop with the early access / playable prototype for exorbitant fees business practice.
I would probably take the plunge, but I’m not really interested in waiting for my “manually distributed” Steam key that only gets distributed once a week. What day of the week? How do I know if I’m going to get mine this week?
Can you please think of another way to do that? I’ll buy in once you do.
The keys are going to be sent out every Monday although I believe we are sending some out this week as well for people who signed up based on the recent announcement.
Bought my key today and really looking forward to being part of this.
However, to be honest – when I am willing to lay down 80 bucks for something where I definitely do not know whether it is worth it – then I do now want to wait for my key until next monday, which means pretty much a whole week from now.
Any chance to get the key earlier? 😉
Thanks in advance!
Will find out tomorrow if we can get some keys sent out this week (and when exactly that happens).
Thanks, would be really great if you guys could manage to send some keys earlier!
A batch of keys will go out before the end of the day.
Preordered a long time ago. Where do I tell you how completely amazing this game is? It’s ruined my ability to be entertained by anything else.