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Have you ever come across an Early Access game on Steam, decided it looked pretty cool and downloaded it, only to realize it was kind of busted and never getting updated again? It\u2019s long been a topic among PC players<\/a>, and Valve now has a new tool to hopefully reduce such occurrences. A warning on Steam pages for Early\u2026<\/p>\n

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Have you ever come across an Early Access game on Steam, decided it looked pretty cool and downloaded it, only to realize it was kind of busted and never getting updated again? It\u2019s long been a topic among PC players, and Valve now has a new tool to hopefully reduce such occurrences. 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