Steam closes refund policy loophole, comes up with official term for the thing where you can play a game early if you pre-order
Few videogame marketing terms are more aggravatingly ambiguous than «early access.» Most painfully, it can refer to two very different scenarios: Sometimes it means putting an in-development game on sale before it's done, and other times it means offering access to a finished game early, typically as a deluxe edition preorder bonus. Starfield offered several days of «early access» with its Premium Edition, for instance.