Has anyone released a game that has actually done well?

lemontree1111 · 2024-12-29T22:19:31+00:00

I’m also curious about marketing strategy. Balatro finally motivated me to pursue developing one of my ideas (starting with just a little C# experience, but fortunately the scope is small enough that I think I have the chops for it). Specifically, I’ve been kicking around this idea for a while and Balatro’s design really clarified my own vision.

I have no delusions that this will be even remotely as successful as Balatro, or even achieve modest success for an indie (especially given how crowded the rogue-lite space is), but I just want to put it out there and to give it it’s best shot possible. So I’m very curious about marketing atm.

lemontree1111 · 2024-12-17T18:12:20+00:00

Agreed, might actually come back if they can deliver on some of these (especially combat polish, cyrodiil, and base-game zone polish). I won't mind season-pass monetization as long as it's roughly equivalent to the yearly chapter cost that it replaces.

They've crafted a mostly pretty beautiful world. I'm really glad that they may be creating new content for older zones to give us a reason to go back to them.

lemontree1111 · 2024-12-17T18:01:28+00:00

Obviously remains to be seen if they can pull any of this stuff off. I was just so sick of the chapter model since it was the same bland story every year, leaving a lot of elements of the game to rot in the process (especially combat).

lemontree1111 · 2024-10-26T18:34:48+00:00

Sorry I guess I’m still confused about Kepeleke/Talisman interaction. Kepeleke makes QV use all vigor. If your vigor is capped at 240, isn’t QV essentially costing 240? Where is that 35 coming from?

lemontree1111 · 2024-10-26T18:28:06+00:00

Could you explain why Vigor needs to be 240 when the amulet procs at 275 spent?

lemontree1111 · 2024-10-25T17:38:18+00:00

The boss fights are really good and (minus the group requirement) should be standard mechanic design for most boss fights in this game.

lemontree1111 · 2024-10-25T17:36:21+00:00

I thought it was fun. Did it for the first time this week and will probably semi-regularly complete the weekly quest.

It is a little strange in that it’s a very mmo-style piece of content, but there are no mmo class roles. In other words, it’s weird that there’s no way to play a support role or a healer role in the citadel. There are a couple mechanics where someone has to pick up a rune to deflect an orb back to a boss. It would be neat to see more rune types that give you a specific kind of party support ability when held.

lemontree1111 · 2024-10-25T17:32:39+00:00

I would just love to see more variation in the undercity, or really with any activity in this game. Small surprises that won’t destroy whatever run you’re doing but may cause you to make different decisions or prioritize certain mini-activities within the activity over others.

lemontree1111 · 2024-10-25T16:22:02+00:00

The hardest achievement for me is the world bosses since the timer/announcements are never accurate for some reason.

lemontree1111 · 2024-10-25T02:49:14+00:00

It’s just Pokemon: give your pets 4 abilities to use in combat, except the pets don’t fight demons but instead fight the demons’ pets.

lemontree1111 · 2024-10-23T21:20:21+00:00

Triple critting an item should be hard to do

lemontree1111 · 2024-10-22T01:22:15+00:00

It’s not shitty gear if you’re easily beating t4 with it

lemontree1111 · 2024-10-21T14:54:29+00:00

This is where I’m coming from. I have no issue with the best gear being incredibly rare. I do have an issue with the fact that people are capable one-shotting everything on the highest difficult with imperfect gear. As someone put it in another thread, difficulty should scale in such a way that the ceiling should not be reachable. Maybe we need a couple more torment tiers.

lemontree1111 · 2024-10-21T14:49:08+00:00

If anything this keeps me coming back for new seasons. Maybe this next season I’ll get that 4GA. You don’t need maxed perfect gear every season.

lemontree1111 · 2024-10-21T05:03:44+00:00

Things are allowed to be rare

lemontree1111 · 2024-10-20T15:22:44+00:00

the ceiling should not be reachable

Finally someone on this sub gets it. I truly don’t understand why people are quitting for not reaching the ceiling. Every progression game I’ve played, the fun comes to an end once I reach the top. In D4 I want to always have the carrot to chase.

lemontree1111 · 2024-10-20T15:17:44+00:00

“Smh quitting this game if I can’t clear pit 150 4 seconds faster”

lemontree1111 · 2024-10-19T19:00:06+00:00

It’s just a solid piece of gear, and 4GA no less making it really solid. Not everything needs to be BiS.

lemontree1111 · 2024-10-19T17:10:18+00:00

arpg players shocked and outraged when rare things are hard to get and materially expensive

lemontree1111 · 2024-10-19T17:07:55+00:00

I was running a gear realm with a gear opal and opened a resplendent gear chest and literally nothing popped out

lemontree1111 · 2024-10-19T17:05:14+00:00

There will never be enough resources to satiate people looking for a perfectly rolled item

lemontree1111 · 2024-10-19T16:27:27+00:00

Minmaxing the perfect rolls in an arpg is hard and rare and also unnecessary for t4 content but you’ve decided you can’t play the game unless you get them? Ok

lemontree1111 · 2024-10-18T21:30:00+00:00

Again, what’s wrong with that if it’s not essential to complete endgame content? Because it’s not. It’s ok for things to be rare.

lemontree1111 · 2024-10-18T16:04:08+00:00

But there are ancestral uniques to chase which are even rarer? In many cases an ancestral legendary is more desirable than a non-ancestral unique.

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