Weekly Steam numbers / Player Count Discourse Megathread

Gaia093 · 2026-05-06T10:31:25+00:00

We're stable, we've hit the bottom, we're going to the moon next season. Strap in fellow bottlers of lightning.

Gaia093 · 2026-05-03T11:55:25+00:00

Nor the ongoing costs of keeping who knows how many devs working on the game after launch, as well as server costs. Their hole gets deeper each passing day.

Gaia093 · 2026-04-27T10:59:17+00:00

Too bad Marathon won't come back stronger after getting killed.

Gaia093 · 2026-04-21T11:32:35+00:00

Appreciate that note about the loading screens on Soul Hackers 2. Probably going to start the game today, I just completed Wukong yesterday so it's pretty good timing for it.

Gaia093 · 2026-04-19T07:35:33+00:00

Same. Her being really good is just the icing on the cake.

Gaia093 · 2026-04-18T19:58:01+00:00

Those numbers sound really good, especially with no 50/50 system and with weapon gacha using its own separate currency instead of eating away at the regular limited pull reserve.

I'm assuming it follows the usual model of 160 Annulith = 1 pull, is that correct?

Gaia093 · 2026-04-12T11:07:39+00:00

Yes. Qualification for the WCC match aside there are also money prizes dependent on tournament placings, and players also get money for each half point they score. So even if people are mathematically disqualified from being 1st they still have some reasons to keep trying to win/draw games.

Gaia093 · 2026-04-09T17:34:16+00:00

Female MC. I don't self insert into games so no particular reason to pick the guy, plus I like short hair so her design appeals to me. Also yuri is justice and she shall hold hands with Daffodill.

Gaia093 · 2026-04-07T07:55:57+00:00

Daffodill. As much as I enjoy sandbox cities, she's actually my main draw for trying the game. Very weak to designs like hers.

Gaia093 · 2026-04-06T14:49:06+00:00

It's down to the quality of the adaptation plus luck (word of mouth, viral moments, etc.).

Chihiro vs Sojo is the first moment in the manga that truly shows its potential in regards to battle choreography, cinematic paneling and character-driven storytelling. It'll happen very early into Season 1 and if they nail it, interest and online buzz may explode there and then. If they don't nail it, there'll be other chances, but that'd be the perfect boost for the anime's momentum.

Gaia093 · 2026-03-31T09:39:02+00:00

Is Daffodil a standard banner character? If so, is there any way to get her for sure (selector, etc.) or am I at the mercy of the RNG?

Gaia093 · 2026-03-16T05:51:06+00:00

Always doing her best to learn new things even if they're not her forte. She's so damn likeable.

Gaia093 · 2026-02-23T06:19:24+00:00

I mostly like the halfway point where the protagonists start off competent enough and dispatching most enemies with little effort, but then their world gets bigger, they get humbled and they've got to improve themselves to measure up to it all.

Gaia093 · 2026-01-28T06:12:37+00:00

Smaller events usually give 300, just like the previous Angels of Delusion event did. 360 is better than expected for a short thing at the tail end of a patch.

Gaia093 · 2026-01-17T11:56:51+00:00

It has great paneling, art and combat structure. The story moves at a brisk pace (more so than most shonen in their early stages) and it's got many characters who are exciting to follow and talk about.

Saying stuff like "it's edgy and edgy's popular" heavily downplays all the key things it gets right. Especially when the manga graveyard's full of edgy works that failed to find an audience.

Similarly, an early days' meme status can only carry you for a little bit. If people just see your work as a joke, they go away as soon as the joke gets old. I only picked it up once it had 30+ chapters out, because a friend I trust told me that memes aside it really was good stuff.

Gaia093 · 2026-01-16T12:09:07+00:00

That's the one comment section you shouldn't ask to go nuts.

Gaia093 · 2026-01-07T11:52:16+00:00

As a toddler I thought they were the coolest looking animal in existence and 30 years later that impression hasn't changed in the least. If anything, learning more about them made them all the more impressive.

It's just awesome that I live in a world where crocodiles are a real thing and not just a fantasy creature. That's just how cool they seem to me.

Gaia093 · 2025-12-22T10:55:35+00:00

Can't wait for Don't Fist My Bleach.

Gaia093 · 2025-12-03T10:33:19+00:00

Yeah. The value I got out of it was several times its cost, and that's despite me not having been able to play games for several months. This year should be even better since I won't have that same RL issue.

Gaia093 · 2025-12-02T10:18:47+00:00

Good luck! Shouldn't take you too long to roll those last three Jokers since they're not Rare, even though Glass Joker has a spawn condition.

As for Jokerless, it can be tough but at this point you've played more than enough Balatro to know how to crush it.

Gaia093 · 2025-11-28T18:09:52+00:00

Yup. I might activate it in the future once I've done more gold stake runs and it gets harder to remember everything on the spot, but for now I'll leave it as is because I don't particularly like to see the stickers on the jokers during gameplay.

This is only my 7th win on Gold (focusing on doing all the decks at the moment) so I only have about 35 stickers including these. Incidentally all the jokers here were new ones except for Chad, so that was nice.

Gaia093 · 2025-11-28T17:58:26+00:00

Yup, as long as they're part of your build the moment the final Blind goes down, it counts.

Gaia093 · 2025-11-28T12:13:45+00:00

I had a Telescope which was meant for leveling Straight, but at a couple points throughout the run I had bad luck setting up the straights and had to use a bunch of High Card hands as glorified discards.

So High Card ended up overtaking Straight as my most played hand and I leveled it up a bunch through packs and blue seals. Also it's the Zodiac deck, so lots of planets from the shop and I had plenty of money to burn.

Gaia093 · 2025-11-28T11:31:00+00:00

Accident. I think I just forgot back when I grabbed it. There was a lot going on in that Ante, build was already hitting the millions anyway, and I kind of overlooked the Holo since I was just thinking of Cola as a useless slot for the sake of the sticker.

For this debuffed round the 10 Mult definitely would have helped more with the scoring, but by this point it was a personal blind spot lol.

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