Well, in your example the Question would arise, if that would change anything about the Mixed and Very Positive, or if it couldn’t even get worse on the Steampage.

Sure there are some People who complain about the Pricetag in Steamforum (and Reddit i guess), but don’t forget that it not only gates out potential consumers for the early access… it also goes towards all the people who don’t understand what early access means and how it works, and then easily complain that it is an unfinished buggy and clunky state for now. Instead of giving feedback, they actually try to punish the Game-Devs for their own fault. Because if you want an fully polished and overall finished product, you simply don’t buy any kind of Early Access Games. Buying EA doesn’t mean that you have “early access” to an full product, like some MMORPG do…; it means that you buy the full game and get access to work in progress builds which is also subject to change. And if you look at the some of the mixed reviews, the majority which i saw wasn’t about the “Pricetag” but rather the Game itself… so i don’t see how it might influence the rating in an bad way. Otherwise if they would lower the Price, we might flooded again with people who rate it bad.

About your Demo Argument, can you even write an review on Steam if you only 've played the Demo? Because i don’t think so, rather the opposite and i’d say it could only manage to get people to buy the game… which again could be in the worst-case-scenario backlash because they could complain about after paying for it, the still haven’t gotten the full game yet but more an “expanded” Demo-Edition.

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Cool, thanks for info. Will keep an eye on Patch Preview Thread.