
They have no way of knowing if they'll win, or even what they'll win.

Players hand over money thinking they're buying a game, but they're not. When we think of gambling in games our minds immediately go to loot boxes, but there's no bigger gamble than Early Access.

The eighth alpha still exists in the libraries of those who bought it, but the game is no longer on Steam. Hart continued to work alone, though said he couldn't devote much time to it. Hart said he still wanted to finish the game, though he didn't know when or how it would happen because he would be "restarting the project from scratch." Refunds weren't an option-the money earned from Early Access sales was gone.

On February 3, 2015, developer Paul Hart revealed that Under The Ocean's programmer had quit.
