Unlike Xbox One or Steam, Sony has no formal early access program. The fact is, 7 Days is nowhere near complete and barely even qualifies as stable, but is being sold on PS4 as a final product.
While they’re not the only ones doing it, titles like DayZ, H1Z1, Ark: Survival Evolved, and RUST most visibly represent the practice of selling a game that is still in active development, inviting players to both fund that development and be party to all the changes, refinements, and mistakes that the developers will make on the way to the “true” release. It might work for some, but this ends up a real problem for 7 Days To Die. If there was ever a genre that could serve as the poster child for early access, it’s the open-world survival game.
WTF This game is nowhere near complete, but is being sold as final! LOW …as well as the things that make survival sandbox games a tedious, buggy chore. HIGH An interesting microcosm of all the things that make survival sandbox games a good time…
