


Think of it more like we're leaving Prototyping and entering Alpha. They've now set Rust up to have a Stable download and an entirely separate Staging download which will see regular updates for testing. They will be switching from weekly to monthly updates and I've no doubt this will continue for a long time. We've been spoilt with Early Access and crowdfunding with indie developers bringing gamers in as part of the process, something you don't usually see, which has led people to get impatient since you're actually seeing that development time in the open.Īs for Rust, even though it's leaving Early Access, it's still not finished.

What people do forget though, is that games do take a long time to get finished. Rust has been in Early Access since December 2013, that's well over four years which is quite a long time. To be specific, it will leave on February 8th. I never thought I would see the day, as Facepunch has announced that Rust will finally leave Early Access next month.
