Coelocanth: He's not talking about Early Access. He's talking about beta testing. But the way the Wasteland 2 devs decided to do it is they give you a Steam key (beta testing is only on Steam and only available to backers), much like Pillars of Eternity.
Unlike PoE though, if you opt in to try the beta on Steam, your final copy of the game is locked into Steam as well. No option to go with GOG if you beta test.
hedwards: Precisely. From what I understand that's not a Steam requirement, Steam can have keys that are alpha/beta only, it's that they chose to make the keys automatically upgrade to full keys.
I'm annoyed greatly that they haven't explained or even acknowledged that fact.
hm yeah, come to think of it, would expect Brian old boy to know about alternative gaming culture :)
Would think that he is aware that Fallouts have been selling here quite well (until they were lost from the catalogue)
So why would he not care about goggers? Briansy what's happenin' ?