Less players than HELLBLADE 2 on release day

[Mika]

Holy hell this game is dead on arrival

[Korinth]

Obviously most people saw the tags "tower defense" and "strategy" and ran away
This imply to use some braincells to enjoy the game, are you mad ?
Weebs ain't here for that

引用自 Whamu：

引用自 Bone：

Who tf cares about player numbers in a single player game, or if a single player game is "dead" Lmfao. How do you even categorize a single player game as dead

The same types refuse to play older single player games because the concurrent player count is low.
They miss out on classics, or even genuine masterpiece indie games.
A game isn't worth playing to them unless everyone is playing it, there are legitimately people who were saying "I'm not playing elden ring because I missed out" before the dlc released, implying that they needed to play the game when there were lots of people playing it at once in order to enjoy it.

I've never saw "people not playing single players because it's dead" frankly it must just be an excuse to not buy games they never intended to play anyway.
And for this kind of posts... they're just fishing their clown gift

[xenos]

引用自 Neifirst：

Can't play as a waifu so didn't buy it : (

better that way. less depraved

[sling_shot]

It's single player also it's frigging saturday, we might be gamers but we got a life outside of gaming u know.

[Francis Ross]

clown farming,

[ResidentVegaPlayer]

Curious, why did you go out of your way to create this thread?

[Ka-mai19]

Is this even supposed to be a live service game that needs high user numbers?

[Carian traitor]

引用自 la_nague：

this game had no marketing at all

I basically found it by looking at the Steam charts and then noticing a little obscure title and then Capcom behind it, and so glad I found it.

[Senki]

well thankfully it's a single player game so it will be fine but it's sad if it really is a failure in terms of sales, that means capcom will be less likely to try making more unique games like this one or similar tower defense stuff

[CptnSpandex]

引用自 Mika：

Holy hell this game is dead on arrival

Niche game mate, the whole design of this game is only going to appeal to a very select crowd, it's lucky its capcom and they do not need the money because it sure as hell is not going to make back the money they spent making it.

[Complete Domination]

It's not even about being niche game, plenty of genre-defining game started out as a niche even souls was once niche. The problem is this game doesn't look very appealing, gameplay doesn't look appealing, is too messy to understand with first impression, and of course being nu-Capcom it sanitizes the design too much. Characters look so out of place with each other and the "gami" doesn't seem all that enchanting.

[archonsod]

引用自 CptnSpandex：

Niche game mate, the whole design of this game is only going to appeal to a very select crowd, it's lucky its capcom and they do not need the money because it sure as hell is not going to make back the money they spent making it.

When you don't blow a few hundred million on development and you don't then compound that by chucking a few hundred million on marketing there's this weird thing that happens where your break even point actually falls below a realistic number of sales.
There are in fact legends of a time when such a thing was common. As with all such things, you can tell it's a myth due to the utopian nature of the legend - developers being able to actually finish the title before release, games that didn't alienate their audience with microtransactions, lootboxes and live service jank in an effort to actually make enough money to finish development. Dogs and Cats living together, that kind of thing.

[Io]

Would be good if $20. I plays on Gamepass, after 2 bosses, it gets boring. There is no story in it. The intro was nice, but the gameplay so repetitive.

[Maiko]

its a single player game....

[sling_shot]

引用自 Io：

Would be good if $20. I plays on Gamepass, after 2 bosses, it gets boring. There is no story in it. The intro was nice, but the gameplay so repetitive.

I agree that the intro is a bit too repetitive. The difficulty ramps up a few areas later

[ANDS!]

引用自 archonsod：

When you don't blow a few hundred million on development and you don't then compound that by chucking a few hundred million on marketing there's this weird thing that happens where your break even point actually falls below a realistic number of sales.

You really think this game is "breaking even" with, let's say roughly 10K sales on STEAM, and maybe similar sales elsewhere? Game was in development for four years, that's a number of work hours to "break even" on.