Nice to meet you Vadam! We originally started out as a Mod for Half Life 2, releasing the first half of our modification in 2012 for free on our website ( http://www.blackmesagame.com ). Since then, we have evolved into a full, standalone game on a new hybrid engine while making vast improvements to the single player campaign. We are no longer a modification. We entered Early Access to gain support and make the commitment to finishing up the entire single player campaign, while introducing a slew of new updates along the way. Such as day one Multiplayer, Workshop, and steam integration support.

With this comes costs such as licenses, hardware, and servers, that without being fulfilled, we would have not been able to release our product to our lovely fans. We aimed for the lowest price possible for Early Access given these circumstances. Most importantly, as we are in early access, you had the option in waiting until you feel what we have to offer is worth paying for.

I have closed this thread. We are trying to weed our these type of passionate discussions here as we are trying to focus our energy on bugs by keeping the steam discussions around pre-sale and bug questions/reporting.

If you would like to keep forth with your passionate discussions, fine- but please do it at our community forums: http://forums.blackmesagame.com