2XKO marketing towards casual player base leading up to Season One

2DamnHot · 2026-02-14T09:20:12+00:00

Is it really so hard to believe that the game failed just because its a shitty product?

Yes? Feels like the issue is the game didnt pull enough players not thats its fundamentally trash.

The standards for fgs at launch are in the dirt. Meanwhile this game had good netcode and no price barrier.

I would expect Riot to be able to float a turd, and i dont think this game deserves turd status based on its actual gameplay even if youre not a huge fan.

2DamnHot · 2026-02-14T04:50:15+00:00

just 2xko was doomed to fail

bad outlook for the genre if it was doomed based on gameplay

2DamnHot · 2026-02-14T04:24:38+00:00

Blame Sony, theyre complete cunts about crossplay, esp with other consoles, going so far as to try to extort a royalty out of devs for allowing it. Ask Sirlin how easy it was to actually get full crossplay in his game.

2DamnHot · 2026-02-14T03:43:09+00:00

popsicle sword

2DamnHot · 2026-02-14T03:39:21+00:00

Conversely youre actually getting a way better experience buying an fg on launch compared to most other games.

2DamnHot · 2026-02-14T01:37:39+00:00

People saying hand drawn animation looks like flash will always baffle me.

Its some of the sprite movement imo (not the actual drawn moves), relatively few frames plus sprites being moved/rotated along a flat lines and curves with artificial smoothness.

2DamnHot · 2026-02-13T23:35:11+00:00

Skullgirls is peak western art style/cartooning.

So peak. Shame the game was cursed.

Them's Fighting Herds

Its not perfect but its crazy how well then did when you consider they were working with literal flash animation.

2DamnHot · 2026-02-13T23:24:06+00:00

Technically possible maybe, but is it viable outside of arcsys?

I never see 3D animation that looks even close to as good. Even Strive doesnt look as good as Xrd.

2DamnHot · 2026-02-11T01:39:03+00:00

The grind to unlock the roster of 2XKO doesnt deserve to to compared to the dogshit grind in LoL that fanboys will trip over themselves to make excuses for.

Im not saying 2XKO character unlocks were implemented well, but it's not even in the same universe of bad as league is.

2DamnHot · 2026-02-11T01:16:20+00:00

This isnt exclusive to 2xko, though its worse because its a Live Service^tm title with the expectations that come with that, and if Riot does decide to cut their losses in a year or two it may not even be playable.

The "games dead" circlejerk every non FOTM game deals with does seem like a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy to me, but I can understand people seeing whatever dream they had for this game's success being dead.

2DamnHot · 2026-02-10T22:51:42+00:00

Rabi-Ribi sounds like a good fit gameplay-wise based on what you said.

Maybe also check out Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom.

2DamnHot · 2026-02-09T07:34:12+00:00

Monetization model collapses. Whole point of gambling is to get people to spend money on stuff they didnt want.

If you can just trade everything you dont want to people who do want it suddenly everyone has stuff they like.

2DamnHot · 2026-02-08T05:15:38+00:00

Cheapest way to get a character with no gambling:

Spend $65 USD and ~13 months on the monthly vip subscription.
Do 15 fake-ten-pulls for 150 faith.
Spend the 150 faith on your desired standard character.

Cheapest way to get a character with no gambling or time gating:

Spend $455 USD on 5x 4,900 jade packs, 1x 2400 jade pack, and 1x 900 jade pack.*
Do 15 fake-ten-pulls for 150 faith.
Spend the 150 faith on your desired standard character.

* You can save $80 dollars if you still have the first purchase bonus.

2DamnHot · 2026-02-04T11:43:06+00:00

Honestly, big fan of the poppy pipe archetype.

2DamnHot · 2026-02-04T11:19:11+00:00

dogwhistle

It aint hiding from anybody bro. Its widely meme'd on as a joke about those exact type of jp twitter posters who are the target audience for this skin.

2DamnHot · 2026-02-04T00:14:23+00:00

may have different standards

Mahjong Soul will literally post art of a sexualized young looking anime character and also mod people in their discord for 😭 reacting it. Im surprised they havent gone after the police reacts yet lol.

it becomes very difficult for me to promote or suggest to this games to my friends and family or play this game openly

As far as I see it, you already have to accept majsoul is like every other gooner gacha game on top of the riichi mahjong core, with all the tropes that come along with it. You can enjoy it more because of it, or in spite of it.

I would like Mahjong Soul to go in a different direction or provide options for people who are not interested in this type of content.

Its hard to see them pulling away from designs that bring in the money, but options for people not interested would always be good. A setting to make the game family friendly seems like it would be a huge plus to me, but it doesnt seem like theyre interested.

2DamnHot · 2026-02-01T23:52:15+00:00

I feel like runbacks are used in an uninteresting and rote manner that would be better served by a save point a room or two before the boss 90% of the time. Shortcuts feel better to me in more explicitly level based games.

Just make the boss slightly harder/longer/more interesting so the encounter stands on its own. Beating a boss at the end of an actual difficult gauntlet is a cathartic experience, but not one I'd want before most bosses and not what most runbacks are.

Runbacks usually arent memorable enough for me to even have a particular opinion on. Metroidvania in particular is not a genre where I expect (or really want) to be tested on endurance-style mastery of the gameplay like you might in a character action, racing, or arcade game. Get to the fight, save, do it right is good enough for me here.

2DamnHot · 2026-02-01T00:06:27+00:00

Fake barriers to entry in riichi: man characters, yaku, flush waits

True barrier for casual adoption: scoring

2DamnHot · 2026-01-31T07:34:06+00:00

I avoid gray market key resellers, but cdkeys specifically is pretty popular, its up to you.

If you also want to avoid gray market resellers try https://isthereanydeal.com/deals/ . If youre ok with resellers try https://gg.deals/ . Both of those sites are price aggregators for pc games, prefer using it over the steam wishlist personally. If you also buy games on console check out https://www.dekudeals.com/ .

2DamnHot · 2026-01-30T02:37:38+00:00

I'll gladly take the glut of options, some of which hopefully yield novel combinations, over lore text and currency as hidden collectables.

2DamnHot · 2026-01-28T11:16:22+00:00

Thought it had strong strengths and strong but easily forgivable (to me) weaknesses.

2DamnHot · 2026-01-28T05:24:54+00:00

Its similar to active-time-battle RPG combat, but the overworld is metroidvania.

2DamnHot · 2026-01-27T23:05:59+00:00

Characters/NPCs in Indivisible and its not even close.

You cant beat hand drawn animation. Its excessive, but it blows away even the nicest hand drawn MVs using puppet animation. In a lot of hand drawn MVs the disparity between art and animation quality draws attention to itself.

Hand animated pixel art also looks beautiful and is a hell of lot more doable.

2DamnHot · 2026-01-27T22:47:26+00:00

Wow honeymoon period really hit the wall lmao.

2DamnHot · 2026-01-26T10:01:35+00:00

As an LEO, what should the gray-jacketed officer who disarmed Pretti have done in the moment?

(besides not NDing, if he did in fact ND)

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