adjl posted...
That's early access. Certainly, live service games can have early access/beta periods, but to say "we've launched in early access, we're planning to do a bunch more updates before calling the game finished" is not a live service model. That's just early access.
Notably, they explicitly are not planning to make a game that's designed for people to play it forever.
They stated they plan on releasing more content (islands, pals, bosses, tech) and endgame raid bosses. That's live service, not early access:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/2/2a55ee40.jpg
It has released in early access, but the support they've mapped out is live service lite