Why Early Access?

“Football physics is delicate: shot power, tackle range and ball speed only get tuned
right with a lot of real people playing. A small studio testing internally finds the
balance of 20 matches, not of 20,000 — and volume is what surfaces the shot nobody can
save and the character everybody picks.

We have three goals for Early Access, in this order:

1. Balance with real data. We track win rate per character, goals per match, and which of
the 9 chaos events people love or skip, and we tune every update — publishing what
changed and why.
2. Harden the online. Steam matchmaking and movement prediction already work, but the
real latency of people spread across the world is impossible to simulate. We want online
stable above 80 ms ping before 1.0.
3. Finish the content with the community present. More playable characters and new arenas
land during Early Access, and the people playing help decide which ones.

We are committed to taking Zooccer to 1.0. The game is already complete start to finish —
we are not asking you to fund a prototype, but to play a finished game and help us sharpen
it. We plan about 6 months of Early Access with regular updates, and we will leave once
the full cast and the new arenas are in the game and the balance is stable.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“About 6 months. We'll leave Early Access once the full cast and the new arenas are in
the game, and once the balance is stable.”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

“More playable characters, more arenas, and balance changes coming from what the
community reports. Gameplay, audio and the tutorial are already complete in Early
Access.”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“Playable start to finish: 1v1 to 4v4 matches against bots, local couch play for 4 on one
screen, Remote Play Together, a six-team career, online with Steam matchmaking, 3 arenas,
9 chaos events, a tutorial and 54 achievements. In English, Portuguese, Spanish,
Simplified Chinese and Korean.”

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

“Yes. The Early Access price is a launch price for people who join now and help shape the
game. It goes up once we leave Early Access, with the full cast and the new arenas in
place.”

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“We read every bug report and balance suggestion the community sends. Shot power, tackle
range and ball speed are tuned from what people report playing the real game, not
decided alone behind closed doors.”