I'm not looking forward to the Paralives Early Access release.
Did any of you see how the 'cozy life sim gamers' reacted when InZoi first came out? The amount of self proclaimed 'brutally honest' YouTubers that downloaded the game, did jackshit, then immediately go "Yeah no this game ain't it."? The amount of people screaming at the top of their lungs that InZoi is AI and lifeless and ugly and uncanny and uncanny valley and whatever the hell they kept spewing out?
I already have a damn bingo card for which YouTubers are going to download the game, do jackshit for cheap comedy, then immediately go "This game isn't worth the hype". I already know the amount of people who'll buy a game that has a gigantic "EARLY ACCESS: SOME FEATURES ARE STILL NOT AVAILABLE" and still scream that 12 year old 100 Packs $1,900 dollar TS4 is 'more superior' than a literally just released game.
I can already hear the screeching of the "THIS GAME LOOKS UGLY" players that definitely don't have at least 10 gigabytes of CC and Mods just to make their sims look different. Hell, I can already see the flood of 1 star reviews from illiterate players having a tantrum that the game that literally has a gigantic "EARLY ACCESS" sign has, in fact, missing features.
Not to mention, I'm scared at what this negative backlash may entail. InZoi is still loved in their own communities, and the fact that there are actual sensible cozy life sim youtubers that reviewed it and its subsequent releases rather than reviewed it once, called it shit, then moved on with their lives.
I hope I'm wrong, I hope I'm being paranoid, but I've already seen bits and pieces of this happening on comment sections and posts on different social media platforms.