I was expecting early access steam, not a literal preorder page with no release date set.
I feel like that's the wrong way to do this. You either use preorder with a scheduled full release window, or steam early access. Taking money as preorders for a steam early access with pretty much no release window... That feels more like vaporware to me.
The initial roll out for Industrial Annihilation was really janky. With Planetary Annihilation, they did the Kickstarter thing and it worked pretty well (if I recall correctly, it was the highest grossing Kickstarter of all time at that point). With Industrial Annihilation, they revealed it as an investment platform for wealthy stockholders. Absolutely no options for people who wanted to support it but were either not ridiculously wealthy or just didn't want to own stock in the company.
Interesting. I'm concerned that I'll have to try and play satisfactory while I'm under artillery fire, and their last foray into the genre had too much frustration compared to fun, but assuming that those systems stay relatively light this could be exactly what I'm craving. Annihilation and it's successors have always had a special place in the RTS genre.
Well given the top-down point-click interface, I think you mean factorio, which already has near-constant enemy attacks, bases, etc but they are low-tech zergs.
Factorio is a fantastic game, so I'm optimistic that copying that model might be good-ish.
I feel like that's the wrong way to do this. You either use preorder with a scheduled full release window, or steam early access. Taking money as preorders for a steam early access with pretty much no release window... That feels more like vaporware to me.
At least add it to steam for people to wishlist.