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RE: Is Early Access Worth It? (Review: My Time at Portia)
While I'm one of those "It will get better" guys. I agree with all the things you said about Early Access games. "It's a gamble" and the companies are starting to see how cost saving is to run away with %40 finished project.
About Portia, it looks pretty. I like how you tried to not be biased while reviewing it. and most of the negatives are because of the game was sold half finished with a complete game price.
I definitely agree. There are some games that work in Early Access, because the dev is upfront about what isn't available, and often offer at a reduced price. I think it works best with multi-player and co-op games, because you can release a map at a time, with features added and balanced as you get more data from the playtime of the players. With stuff like Portia, it's apparently a redux of a Chinese game, as their ads looking for quest-writers remark that fluency in translating Chinese is a plus. This doesn't mean it'll be bad, but with a crafting/farming RPG you want to have enough in there to have a sandbox mode that can sell the game, like with The Long Dark. Portia doesn't have that, so I don't think it's ready to sell at full price.