A Steam-style Early Access programme is a common request amongst ID@Xbox developers, the platform holder's Chris Charla has told Develop.
Valve's initiative that allows studios to release alpha versions of their games so that consumers can offer feedback has taken off in the last twelve months, with titles like Rust and Day Z selling millions of copies before full development has even finished.
Reports have emerged this morning that Sony is considering a similar scheme on PlayStation 4 and Charla told Develop in an interview last week that it's a talking point at Xbox as well.
FuRyu revealed on Friday its Exstetra fantasy role-playing game is getting an HD remaster that will launch this summer on Steam.
Valve is reportedly updating its Steam platform to include a native 30-day price history feature on game store pages.
That would be cool, for sure.
@NYC
For sure!
"Sony is considering a similar scheme on PlayStation 4..."
Hopes Sony make one for their dead first-party games.
This is a very tricky thing to do on consoles. PC is like the Wild Wild West. On your own in that world. Consoles little more controlled environment, people may be a little more up in arms about a games where all the bugs and glitches are very apparent...
In some respects devs are already doing something similar on the Xbox One. I mean look at Titanfall, game releases with a few game modes, then through numerous updates game modes, balancing and new features have all been released at no cost and done with updates to the build.
I am not complaining just observing how its progressed and evolved since launch.