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pastel_de_airfryer, (edited ) do games w The $700 price tag isn’t hurting PS5 Pro’s early sales

Sony saw how much money people were willing to pay scalpers for the PS5 at launch and decided to cut the middleman this time

ImplyingImplications, do gaming w Game dev says contract barring “subjective negative reviews” was a mistake

They asked the streamers for reviews but gave them an advertising contract by mistake!

Vampiric_Luma, do games w Why there are 861 roguelike deckbuilders on Steam all of a sudden
@Vampiric_Luma@lemmy.ca avatar

Maybe my subjective take of sudden is different, but is it sudden? (aka I progressively succumb to madness over a title)

There’ve been many fantastic roguelike deckbuilders out since 2020, a little after Slay teh Spire’s official release date. It feels more like people have became aware of how fun the subgenre is after the hype Baltaro generated on streaming platforms. If anything is sudden, it’s the second-wind of attention we’re getting thanks to the above-mentioned game.

I know I’m continuing to split hairs over nothing down here, but 861 games is a little misleading once you get to the end: “Surprisingly, deckbuilders are still an underserved market”

You never know when you’ve reached the peak of a trend, but deckbuilders seem like they’re not quite there yet. Games-Stats tracks 527 roguelike deckbuilders, and Dev_Hell’s Westendorp suggests their higher-than-average revenues, wider revenue spread, and demand make them “relatively underserved as a market.”

So, there’s not 861 games, but 527 games?

If you investigate why there’s a large gap in reported game listings, it’s because Steam is including packs like [Slay the Spire x Backpack Hero] and DLC where Game-Stats is tracking the individual games (i.e, bloatless). This ties back to the title - ultimately we’re not trying to answer the literal question, “Why are there 861 roguelike deckbuilders on Steam”, because OP never answers that question. Instead, we are answering an alternative interpretation: “Why are there so many roguelike games appearing on Steam in a short amount of time?” The answer, may shock you:

spoilerMoney, popularity, ez(er) to dev

While I’ve taken those answers from the article, I find it further interesting that they conclude a different question all-together: “Why are roguelike deckbuilders taking off?”

Buh, I’ve lost it. Ultimately I really liked the core article and their enthusiasm, but I’ve driven myself to madness here.

Theharpyeagle,

Yeah, this same article can be written for Mini Golf games, or shmups, or visual novels, or any other genre that’s relatively easy to develop for. Once one gets popular, others will jump on because the barrier to entry is fairly low. Lots will be low effort clones, but some will really try to build something new.

exocrinous, do astronomy w [Eric Berger] Seeing this eclipse is probably the highest-reward, lowest-effort thing one can do in life

No, it’s really hard to go to America.

mctoasterson, do gaming w Twin Galaxies, Billy Mitchell settle Donkey Kong score case before trial

Karl Jobst’s coverage of this has been both spot on and hilarious.

mozz,
@mozz@mbin.grits.dev avatar

I want to normalize having a sarcastic commentator making scathingly aggressive Youtube videos about people in the news who are doing unethical things.

simonced, (edited ) do games w Unity makes major changes to controversial install-fee program ...😑

Just the fact that they’ll spy on me when I install a game, makes me want to avoid buying unity games forward.

In fact, they certainly already have some analytics, so yeah, I’ll avoid unity for my games from now on…

psycho_driver, do games w Judge issues legal permaban, $500K judgment against serial Destiny 2 cheater

Damn. That seems excessive. Then again, online cheaters are vermin.

otter,

Sounds like it was because of they were selling cheating software (and maybe versions of the game that allowed cheating?)

So the amount might be related to how much they made from doing that

xcxcb, (edited )

They way it reads is that they were actually playing and circumventing bans, possibly selling accounts too maybe. They were streaming their exploits on Twitch too.

tiramichu, do games w “Literally just a copy”—hit iOS game accused of unauthorized HTML5 code theft

Lots of great money to be made in theft, apparently.

sirico, do games w Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic”
@sirico@feddit.uk avatar

With his Linux takes I’m starting to think ol Tim doesn’t have a good grasp on computer games

JackbyDev, do games w 11 years after launch, 49M people still use their PS4s, matching the PS5

It feels weird to phrase it like this. I didn’t buy my PS4 11 years ago. I bought it 5 years ago.

bigmclargehuge, do games w Why there are 861 roguelike deckbuilders on Steam all of a sudden
@bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world avatar

Because they’re popular, and they’re super easy to slap together (graphically at least. In theory, you could make a completely text based deck builder and it would function identically to one with fancy graphics).

This is the equivilant of zombie games in the shooter genre. Why program complex ai when you could make braindead (pun intended) bots walk in a straight line at the player and deal damage when they touch them.

BigBananaDealer,
@BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee avatar

zombie shooters peaked with i maed a gam3 w1th z0mb1es 1n it!!!1

dejected_warp_core,

It’s even easier than that. Both of these genres have design features that require minimal balancing, making for an even faster dev cycle.

Roguelikes side-step the need for traditional game balance by providing meta progression and building inevitable-death-by-impossible-odds into the core game. For Roguelikes that actually have an ending, all the developer needs to do is provide enough meta progression perks to overcome the game’s peak difficulty, for even the worst of players. Everyone else gets bragging rights for beating the game faster than that. Either way, the lack of balance and “fairness” in the core design are features, not flaws.

Deck builders follow in Magic The Gathering’s footsteps: you never need to fully balance it. Ever. The random draw mechanisms, combined with a deep inventory of resource and item/creature/action cards, make it unlikely that a player gets an overpowered hand all the time. Pepper a few ridiculously overpowered cards in there, and it just feels more fun. Plus, if you keep the gravy train going with regular add-ons, the lack of balance is even further masked by all the possible choices. And yes, some player will min/max a deck at great personal expense and wipe the floor with their opponents because it was never fair in the first place, and doing so is a feature.

FartsWithAnAccent, do games w Why there are 861 roguelike deckbuilders on Steam all of a sudden
@FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world avatar

I just think it’s refreshing to have a break from all the vampire survivor knock off games.

Aatube, do games w Nintendo warns Switch 2 GameChat users: “Your chat is recorded”

That reporting feature lets a user "review a recording of the last three minutes of the latest three GameChat sessions" to highlight a particular section for review, suggesting that chat sessions are not being captured and stored in full. The terms also lay out that "these recordings are available only if the report is submitted within 24 hours," suggesting that recordings are deleted from local storage after a full day.

hihi24522, do gaming w Why console makers can legally brick your game console

I’m guessing the answer is ✨capitalism✨

Coelacanth,
@Coelacanth@feddit.nu avatar

Isn’t it always?

hihi24522,

Not always, if the headline is “How do we stop (insert capitalism-caused problem)?” Then the answer is revolution.

Coelacanth,
@Coelacanth@feddit.nu avatar

I was thinking more in regards to questions of “why is [bad thing] allowed to be [bad in this manner]?”

But you’re right.

reksas, do games w Balatro yet again subject to mods’ poor understanding of “gambling”

Yet still youtube allows lootbox opening videos

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