S team’s early access program helps small to medium-sized developers get an idea off the ground, but not every game actually does. Now, Valve has a notice designed to warn Steam

As SteamDB pointed out earlier today, the revised warning appears inside the big blue Early Access box. In addition to including statements from the game’s developer about why the game is in Early Access rather than just being released upon completion and how long it will be until the game is expected to ship,

It's got its ups and downs, but I rather like Steam early access. Being able to get in on the ground floor of something, watch it develop, and support developers whose ambitions might exceed their initial budgets is a neat thing.

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It's not a universally applied system yet, but Steam will now tell players if an Early Access game hasn't been updated in over a year.