#I'm increasingly bitter about the state of fully released 1.0 games at the moment

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Helpful glossary for AAA games industry terms.

Crowdfunding -> interest free loan and free market research

Early access -> Free beta testing

Private beta -> crowdsourced free QA

Public beta -> free YouTuber publicity, reviewers can't say negative things yet :)

Preorder -> give us money now so you can't read reviews before buying

Release -> Full price alpha build

1.1 patch -> 70-90% finished base game

1 year anniversary update -> actual finished game (maybe) (we fired most of the dev team btw)