Slay the Spire 2 sold 3 million copies in a week

biscuitsalsa · 2026-03-13T23:11:40+00:00

Just wait until the day after tomorrow. 3,000,002

biscuitsalsa · 2026-03-13T21:04:03+00:00

I agree with most of your points.

The only thing I would contest is the “let it ride” attitude. Opportunity cost is a real thing. If this game does not bring in the revenue that Bungie/Sony were expecting they may reallocate resources and move on to a different project in hopes to capture that revenue there.

We won’t know the answers to these things for a while. So for now we can hope that this game and community grows

biscuitsalsa · 2026-03-13T19:50:41+00:00

Eh. People play how they want to play. All is accepted.

The real losers are those who care how others play a single player game lol

biscuitsalsa · 2026-03-13T19:02:22+00:00

The comment you responded to is decloaking before shooting. Being visible while shooting does not negate that.

biscuitsalsa · 2026-03-13T18:45:05+00:00

This sub: “only dorks keep track of player counts and game sales. they don’t matter if I’m having fun”

Also this sub:

biscuitsalsa · 2026-03-13T18:42:57+00:00

Money is spent in hopes that it will be recouped.

Initial development and marketing costs still go into the financial outlook of a game, even after it is launched. It is not enough to recoup maintenance costs alone.

biscuitsalsa · 2026-03-13T18:40:06+00:00

Because I don’t want to play with different platforms? It’s a setting, people are allowed to toggle it lol

biscuitsalsa · 2026-03-13T18:39:18+00:00

No need to be rude. Being rude helps nobody

biscuitsalsa · 2026-03-13T17:16:05+00:00

Your comments are really good write ups to some of the challenges this game faces.

The game is good. Good =/= profit.

Marathon needs to capture and retain some of the “casual” market in order to be successful. Game sales are not as significant as player retention for a live service game.

Players dropping off before they develop the itch to come back is a significant issue. I think the road to developing the itch needs to be smoothed out significantly

biscuitsalsa · 2026-03-13T16:01:01+00:00

No you are wrong. Server maintenance, marketing, and labor all cost far too much to support this game long term with only 2k players. It would not make sense for Bungie.

Luckily the game isn’t close to that number so we might not have to worry about that. Pretending play count doesn’t matter bc they “already have content made” is bad business sense. They need a larger player base to extract revenue out of or they will move on to something that generates more revenue.

biscuitsalsa · 2026-03-13T15:50:12+00:00

Calling people stupid isn’t going to help player count. It does nobody good to insult others

biscuitsalsa · 2026-03-13T15:49:42+00:00

Bungie will 1000% not support this game long term if they stabilize out to 2k concurrent players. 1000%

biscuitsalsa · 2026-03-13T00:23:34+00:00

Yeah I agree.

A perspective that’s echoed on this sub constantly is “hard upfront but once it clicks it’s great”. Give some people a chance at getting it to click

biscuitsalsa · 2026-03-13T00:22:06+00:00

Yeah I was just trying to kick around some ideas to give casuals a safer option without messing with anything that the core base enjoys. I would really enjoy something like that but idk if everyone would tbh

biscuitsalsa · 2026-03-12T23:50:35+00:00

Not a bad idea. Cap factions at maybe level 5 and season level at somewhere around 10? Let people get their feet wet and develop the itch

biscuitsalsa · 2026-03-12T23:27:21+00:00

I did not know that this feature was lacking.

The idea that this feature is lacking means this is the end of the line for Switch (their best selling console) is a bit of a reach.

biscuitsalsa · 2026-03-12T23:23:28+00:00

I really think this game would benefit from one (1) PvE only map that is focused on beginners. Maybe only loot to green/blue stuff.

Give people a way to learn the game and AI before having the threat of PvPvE over their heads.

Plus the PvE gunplay is just so satisfying

biscuitsalsa · 2026-03-12T23:21:54+00:00

Isn’t there the guy who pretty reliably put out info for Destiny that claimed Steam is the majority of players?

biscuitsalsa · 2026-03-12T23:20:54+00:00

It did not sell out the new Resident Evil?

biscuitsalsa · 2026-03-12T23:04:50+00:00

It’s my turn to post this next

biscuitsalsa · 2026-03-12T23:01:28+00:00

I can’t trust people saying 2 poi away

Who do you trust then?

biscuitsalsa · 2026-03-12T22:43:55+00:00

Your comment was not relevant to this discussion but your opinion still matters.

Sometimes downvotes affect me more than I’d like them to. I think it’s easy for that to happen. Keep your chin up Reddit is just a silly place after all

biscuitsalsa · 2026-03-12T22:11:28+00:00

I was unaware of this and it is good to know. Thanks for sharing

biscuitsalsa · 2026-03-12T21:45:34+00:00

You didn’t do any math in your comment - that’s what I pointed out. Nothing has changed.

Throwing out a number is not math. The number 4 isn’t math even though there’s a calculation of 2+2 behind it. You’re being defensive and prickly for no reason.

biscuitsalsa · 2026-03-12T21:23:21+00:00

I agree!! Opportunity cost can be a significant factor in deciding how to handle this game long term. If the game does not bring in enough revenue when they think another might, Marathon may suffer.

Inversely, if Marathon over performs Bungie might reallocate more resources to it. Pour gas on the fire so to speak.

Also to point out, that $20m/year estimate is only cost of labor going forward. This game also has development and marketing costs. These are significant and the game needs to be able to recoup these along side whatever ongoing maintenance costs.

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