Forum Overview :: Gamerasutra :: 3 YEARS LATER...

[quote name="Fullofkittens"][quote name="The Happiness Engine"]The main problem is where does the money come from. Are you going to buy a game that's nowhere near done for $60 and trust EA to work on it until it's "great"?[/quote] <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/genre/Early%20Access/">We have our answer.</a> The question it raises in my mind is the one posed by Endless Space: Endless Space had the best, most transparent system for user involvement in software development I have seen. But the game still sucked. Thinking about that, it seems like a good game is - or is at least <i>like</i> - a work of art in that it needs an authorial voice; good games can't be made by committee. But if that's true for games, is it true for all software? Is Agile's focus on iterative feedback just an abdication of responsibility, a way to shift the burden of decisionmaking onto someone else?[/quote]