It Took Almost 3 Years, But Starbound Is Leaving Early Access

Oh no... that's the same day I'm getting Monster Hunter Generations... oh darn. I guess I'll just let 1.0 sit for a while in my library. It's not like there's any anticipation left for it now anyway.

Star-what now?

Really enjoyed this game back when first released, but I lost all my interest after all the dev/community drama and the lack of a single game update for 6 months to a year. When the big patch finally hit (1.0 i think), i quit after about 30 minutes of play, they changed too much all at once. they killed the food/healing sys, removed pickaxes (and drills?) and opted to focus on the antimatter gun (cant remember if this is the name anymore) to break blocks. This taught me a valuable lesson concerning early access games, to be weary of games that potentially have a long dev cycle ahead of them, things can radically change down the road.

I loved Starbound. The recent changes they made in the past few months made it strangely less enjoyable for me. Oh well. I'm glad to read that they continuing the updates. Crossing fingers for a more awesome game with updates!

I used to be obsessed with this game, I think it was just that minimal bit of lore you find(Such as bits and pieces of info plus what you observe) and the exploration. It just had calm feel where nothing mattered and you can just do whatever like in MC(Until the fandom picked up and associations were made with it). Though the long dev period just killed my interest in this game.

I have often brought up this game when discussing No Man's Sky and for some similar features I'd say that NMS is going to beat them to market, then I see Starbound is finally releasing and before NMS :). From a lot of the comments here though, the game has drastically changed for worse.

Too bad this game was ruined after the questing/tutorial update.

People who played this hate Chucklefish and think the game is unsalvagable at this point.

Updates don't always mean a game gets better. You say it's only gotten better with time, but I don't think that's true for a large group of people. They changed directions and lost there objective, taking out survival systems, and the awesome randomized planets and biomes. No more freaky eyeball trees or unique monsters. Also heard that village and dungeon spawn was ramped up, to the point they become boring and repetitious, not something rare and cool to find.

Thought this day would never come. Next up: Project Zomboid.