I feel like there are some game though that do "Early Access" extremely well. I'm not sure of all the examples but Kerbal Space Program was an almost perfect example of how early access should work. Before the official release of KSP with the 1.0 update it was still an amazing game and I had a lot of fun playing it. The full release brought so many new things it felt like an entirely new game.
As far as preordering goes the whole "Preorder bonuses" is ridiculous and needs to stop, but to be honest the companies make a lot of money off of these basically non-refunded copies they sell. With the new steam refund I think this will be happening a lot less on PC considering what happened with the new Batman game. If Sony and Microsoft could also implement these refunds on their digital purchases (which it seems like a lot more people buying digital even on console) it would honestly stop a lot of these terrible releases in their tracks.
I feel like there are some game though that do "Early Access" extremely well. I'm not sure of all the examples but Kerbal Space Program was an almost perfect example of how early access should work. Before the official release of KSP with the 1.0 update it was still an amazing game and I had a lot of fun playing it. The full release brought so many new things it felt like an entirely new game.
As far as preordering goes the whole "Preorder bonuses" is ridiculous and needs to stop, but to be honest the companies make a lot of money off of these basically non-refunded copies they sell. With the new steam refund I think this will be happening a lot less on PC considering what happened with the new Batman game. If Sony and Microsoft could also implement these refunds on their digital purchases (which it seems like a lot more people buying digital even on console) it would honestly stop a lot of these terrible releases in their tracks.