Hey House Flippers!
The last week for us was filled with intensive work on House Flipper. We hired a squadron of professional testers and we received from you lot of suggestions about the game. Your voice in the production of House Flipper was very important to us, and this time we also want to heed your voice!
We are just a step away from the release and we want to be sure that the game will bring you lots of fun, regardless of whether you play on a PC or Mac, in English, Ukrainian or Korean. We could release the game tomorrow, but this would be a waste of your feedback and the support that you have given us. We need to ask you to be a little more patient, while ensuring you that the deadline for releasing the game on Steam is May 17, 2018 at 15:00 UTC.
House Flipper Team
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Update
We were considering early access, but there are many reasons not to do that.
- We'd need to come out of Early Access on 2017-05-17 anyway, because then we are publishing full version of the game. This date is final and we have signed contracts for box version in retail stores in many countries.
- It would be bad for a game - now we can fix and improve things quickly, not supporting thousands of players, and not having to handle backwards compability (i.e. saves). After release it will be different.
- Releasing on Early Access is a process that has requirements and takes time! You need to request it, prepare information about the current state of game, go through whole acceptance process on Steam, update website according to Steam requirements, etc. It could easily take more than a month anyway.
Important note:
Although we do not publish the game as an Early Access title, we will improve the game for many months after the release. We plan to add new houses, appraisers, mechanics and items. We hope that you'll support us in doing so.