Unfortunately Early Access only work good for specific kind of games where continious support make sense. If your project is not built with unlimited replayabil

Unfortunately Early Access only work good for specific kind of games where continious support make sense. If your project is not built with unlimited replayability by design then it's doesn't work, e.g if your game is story-driven. EA work realy well for titles that managed to get some community or media attention. For most of other indie game developers primary target is to attempt to get promition from platform itself (e.g Steam or console) since it's only way to sell something. Also releasing in Early Access require very specific development pipeline where from very beginning you have to deliver stable builds with constant production quality (graphics quality, no placeholder art, etc). Most of players dont really give a damn about how game development works neither they want to play game that look incomplete or crashes often. PS: My point is that early access work for some titles, but for every Rimworld or Factorio there are literally thousand of games that failed miserably because early access dont work for them.