7 Days to Die is finally leaving early access, but console players will have to buy the 1.0 version again (www.eurogamer.net)

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7 Days to Die – an open-world zombie game that first released back in December 2013 – is finally leaving early access.

Developer The Fun Pimps says that the next update will not only usher in new gore, challenges, and improved controller support, but also move the 11-year-old game out of early access for the very first time.

It's not all good news, though, particularly if you already own the £30 zombie game on console.

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

https://beehaw.org/comment/3346558

What a shit article. There's a massive amount of context missing.

7DTD is a game created by The Fun Pimps. Telltale Games bought the rights to produce a console port of the game from TFP. Telltale Games then contracted with Iron Galaxy to produce the port. Telltale Games went bankrupt and it's assets were liquidated, one of those assets was the rights to produce the console port. TFP managed to buy back the rights to the console port, but were unable to get any of the source code for the console port. It took years to get the rights sorted out, and it wasn't cheap.

It's a messed up situation, but console players bought a Playstation 4/XBox One game from Telltale Games, a company that went bankrupt and is defunct, and that sucks. TFP is now starting from scratch to produce a console port for the current generation of consoles and that costs money.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

That is pertinent information. I may have to add Eurogamer to my shit list.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I played this game on Xbox years ago till my friends and I lost a save file to corruption. Looked into it and found out about this mess. Bought it on steam years later and even self hosted a server. I do come back to it every so often.