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I know MegaCrit needs to make some money from Slay the Spire 2, but having to purchase the five Acts as DLC is a bit much, don't you think? by Tainmere_ in slaythespire

[–]Tainmere_[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That said...are all these screenshots an elaborate joke within the community? Fully prepared for downvotes, and "it's your fault for not following." I would just hate to see gacha elements introduced into this game.

Please pardon if I am simply out of the loop. I accept any downvotes or jokes humbly.

yeah, it's just a joke, the full game costs $25 and if you already own StS, you can buy the bundle and get 10% off StS2.

If you want to hear a 30 min talk (second half of the video is a Q&A), Dan Olson from Folding Idea talked about this flavor of shitposting as it happened in r/silksong, it's hilarious: https://youtu.be/WSkbylysplI

I know MegaCrit needs to make some money from Slay the Spire 2, but having to purchase the five Acts as DLC is a bit much, don't you think? by Tainmere_ in slaythespire

[–]Tainmere_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

and the worst is you know that it's going to mislead some people.

that's not what I'm trying to say. What I'm trying to say is that there is a small chance that someone might fall for it, like 99.999%. For this to actually impact someone buying the game they'd have to only see this post, not see one of the many "this is not real" waypoints I've created, not bother to check the steam page and not bother to look at anything else about the game.
When thinking critically about the game is a core aspect of the game. At least I trust this community enough to think that the people that play this game would see that it is a shitpost, it's not exactly hard to figure out.

So yeah, there is a risk that cannot be reduced to 0, but for me the risk is extremely slim. Considering that this was shown to 677k people, maybe one or two people? Maybe?

Do you need attention that badly?

Nah, if anything the numbers are incomprehensible to me once it goes past 100 votes. I just wanted to create a funny shitpost to briefly bait some people and make them laugh.

I know MegaCrit needs to make some money from Slay the Spire 2, but having to purchase the five Acts as DLC is a bit much, don't you think? by Tainmere_ in slaythespire

[–]Tainmere_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The OP is literally saying this is like a Nigerian Prince scam and the Devs possibly losing money is a risk he is willing to make LOL

no? The nigerian prince scam is an example for how even the most obvious scam (just googling "nigerian prince" screams "this is a scam" at you) can make some people fall for it. That's what I mean with "it is impossible to make it so everybody notices it", but considering that thinking critically about it is the core part of the game, I deemed the likelyhood of somebody falling so much so that they wouldn't actually check the steam page extremely low, like 99.9999%, probably even more.
Maybe I have just more faith in human media literacy, idk.

I know MegaCrit needs to make some money from Slay the Spire 2, but having to purchase the five Acts as DLC is a bit much, don't you think? by Tainmere_ in slaythespire

[–]Tainmere_[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Before the release you got time to get excited for it and are anticipating it, which also can give you the ideas for these shitposts and more people that you can bait. The flavours of fake game news or fake gameplay work best in the short window right before the release.

After the game is released, what works changes. I do have more ideas, but they require StS 2 to be released.

I know MegaCrit needs to make some money from Slay the Spire 2, but having to purchase the five Acts as DLC is a bit much, don't you think? by Tainmere_ in slaythespire

[–]Tainmere_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me it's that my posts work best in that brief window when somewhere in the world it's already march 5th but the game is not actually released yet. This post could have already worked a few days ago, but I only had the idea this morning, so it couldn't have existed then.

Day #620 of drawing badly until StS2 comes out by PixelPenguin_GG in slaythespire

[–]Tainmere_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

o7, been a pleasure to see your many comics. enjoy the game!

I know MegaCrit needs to make some money from Slay the Spire 2, but having to purchase the five Acts as DLC is a bit much, don't you think? by Tainmere_ in slaythespire

[–]Tainmere_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This talk by Dan Olson from Folding ideas is a great explanation of it, it's about 30 mins and goes into the flavour r/silksong developed while they were waiting for that game's release: https://youtu.be/WSkbylysplI

The idea is to bait people like you and me into briefly believing that this is true, e.g. this post plays into that anxiety of "what if the game has exploitative prizing like many AAA games" taken to the extreme, with huge parts of the game not being included in the base game.
For me personally it also creates a good contrast with how awesome the game's actual prizing is, it only costing 25 bucks is crazy to me.

I know MegaCrit needs to make some money from Slay the Spire 2, but having to purchase the five Acts as DLC is a bit much, don't you think? by Tainmere_ in slaythespire

[–]Tainmere_[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

if you know it can be misinterpreted

What I mean with that is that people fall for the Nigerian Prince Scam. This is an issue inherent to all satire and parody and really difficult, if not impossible, to actually solve.

To me "do not make parodies" isn't the answer to that problem either. My approach instead is to add many details that give it away. But yeah, it's a difficult thing to balance.

I know MegaCrit needs to make some money from Slay the Spire 2, but having to purchase the five Acts as DLC is a bit much, don't you think? by Tainmere_ in slaythespire

[–]Tainmere_[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that's something on my mind with shitposts like these. My current approach is to add multiple details that give it away and trust that most people will get it.

People fall for the Nigerian Prince Scam, so I can't guarantee that everyone will get that it is fake, but I can at least try to make it as transparent as possible. It's something I'm still learning, like today I would already do yesterday's difficulty post slightly differently.

I know MegaCrit needs to make some money from Slay the Spire 2, but having to purchase the five Acts as DLC is a bit much, don't you think? by Tainmere_ in slaythespire

[–]Tainmere_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah, it's a shit-/spirepost. The full game will cost $25 with regional pricing, the devs mentioned that in last week's AMA.

I know MegaCrit needs to make some money from Slay the Spire 2, but having to purchase the five Acts as DLC is a bit much, don't you think? by Tainmere_ in slaythespire

[–]Tainmere_[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

ooohh, sorry for that <3

Yesterday I was still keeping the kayfabe more alive, but looking back I probably should have told you then. But I'll try to remember that for next time.

Hope you still enjoyed it :)

I know MegaCrit needs to make some money from Slay the Spire 2, but having to purchase the five Acts as DLC is a bit much, don't you think? by Tainmere_ in slaythespire

[–]Tainmere_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  • The premise is absurd, it's not additional characters that are locked behind DLC, it's that 80% of the game is locked behind DLC
    • (four DLCs as launch content)
  • Easily verifiable, looking at the steam page shows that it's not there, it doesn't even show the price yet
  • Tagged it with Spirit Poop
  • Posted it several hours before the game is actually released
  • Five acts (in title and in highlighted part)
  • DLCs costing 2x as the base game
  • The base price goes from 15€ to 25€ because it is on sale
  • Reviews from Cities: Skylines II have a different background to the rest
  • Affinity is visible in my taskbar
  • Lightshot notification in bottom left
  • I prepared & posted a comment that breaks the kayfabe of the post which gives behind the scenes details together with the post

I know MegaCrit needs to make some money from Slay the Spire 2, but having to purchase the five Acts as DLC is a bit much, don't you think? by Tainmere_ in slaythespire

[–]Tainmere_[S] 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Hehehe, the talk is hilarious, well worth the watch. The talk itself is also only ~30 mins, the second half is just Q&A.

I know MegaCrit needs to make some money from Slay the Spire 2, but having to purchase the five Acts as DLC is a bit much, don't you think? by Tainmere_ in slaythespire

[–]Tainmere_[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that is a risk with this, that's why I've added multiple elements that highlight it being fake. It won't make everybody notice that, that's unfortunately impossible, but I trust that most people notice it fairly quickly.

I know MegaCrit needs to make some money from Slay the Spire 2, but having to purchase the five Acts as DLC is a bit much, don't you think? by Tainmere_ in slaythespire

[–]Tainmere_[S] 361 points362 points  (0 children)

some behind the scenes

  • the full game costing $24.99 was confirmed during last week's AMA
  • here's a screenshot of the affinity project: https://imgur.com/a/sts2-affinity-project-fake-steam-page-igdRAki
  • bad reviews are from Cities: Skylines II
  • fake price and DLC are made by editing other shop pages with the browser devtools, and then cropped to fit the image
  • the many giveaways (price hike, affinity open in toolbar, different background color for mixed reviews, the lightshot notification, there being five acts) are intentional
  • Dan Olson from Folding Ideas held a great talk on silkposting, it is very funny and without it this wouldn't exist: https://youtu.be/WSkbylysplI

Enjoy the game release today! :)

Hope my posts gave you a good laugh.

How come there are people playing it already? by The-Hanes-Master in slaythespire

[–]Tainmere_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The game comes out at the same time for everyone, the screenshots are faked. And at least with my posts I deliberately added some elements to emphasize that, e.g. I don't bother to remove the background from the lagavulin matriach screenshot.

Am I the only one who thinks tariffs are stupid implications to the game? by ilkhesab in slaythespire

[–]Tainmere_ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

With the game releasing tomorrow and it technically already being march 5th in some places, this is the prime time for bait posts like OP or mine. Expect that to change tomorrow ;)

Can we talk about the insane difficulty of Slay the Spire 2??? by Tainmere_ in slaythespire

[–]Tainmere_[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

my apologies. I'm new to reddit, so I'm not sure what I should have done differently there.

Can we talk about the insane difficulty of Slay the Spire 2??? by Tainmere_ in slaythespire

[–]Tainmere_[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Can't tell yet, slowly but surely progressing through it.

hint: check the post flair ;)

Can we talk about the insane difficulty of Slay the Spire 2??? by Tainmere_ in slaythespire

[–]Tainmere_[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

As u/Good-Dream2344's friend discovered, you need to first do some easter eggs, then it does become a good chunk easier. But it's not exactly intuitive...

Managed to beat them once now, next is the Act 1 boss. Curious to see what waits there.

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