I don’t understand this obsession with player numbers unless it is a full fledged MMO where player numbers matter to a degree and up to a certain point. But for games like this it doesn’t really matter.
Because it shows many people are playing it. That in itself may be of interest to people who are considering purchasing the game. Also it let’s the devs know there is a market potentially interested in DLC or sequels. If the news was that player counts dropped to a very small number, neither of those things are likely to happen
Even if it’s not an MMO, player count can be a very strong indicator of enjoyment/income at a given time. Even if it’s a single player game, player count can show how popular a game is on whole. If a 5yo game still has engagement numbers above newly released games, it’s strongly correlated with studio income/gamer trends.
They can base future decisions on what they did correctly/incorrectly, and develop their next game/dlc/etc with those lessons learned.
Release a game that has nobody playing after a month? Crapbasket. Release a game that has well into a million players despite the age? Fucking masterpiece.
I mean, I started playing once I heard how popular it was.
Pokémon with guns didn’t really interest me as a description but it turns out it’s fun when you try it.
If so many people hadn’t been recommending it. I would’ve never known.
At some point when something gets so popular, you try it just to see what you’re missing out on even if you don’t think it’s gonna be your cup of tea.
And it’s really more like Pokémon mixed with ARK
Is that frog boi a new pal? I’m gonna need to hop back in the game soon.
Yep. Theres a bunch of new bros including a tiny armadillo and I love it so much. Also huge qol changes and items and moves and levels and gear and… It’s a lot.
I told myself I wasn’t going to play again until full release but man is this game going to be different by then.
I think it’s in a good enough place to play now, if you like. Most of the stuff they added is late game anyway, so it seems like the early game is mostly done aside from any additional polish they want to add.
Anytime here know if it’s good on Steam Deck? The store page is ambiguous about it.
I play it on my steam deck, runs just fine. Some of the text is just very very small and therefore hard to read.
Mine gets hooot
Then feed it mice!
Is it possible to do a no-pal run? Because nothing makes me want to play a Pokemon game like killing them all and catching nothing.
Theoretically, yes. But it’s way more time consuming to be worth it. You can watch a couple videos on YouTube with “No Pal Runs”
I don’t see why not. You can obtain every resource yourself it just takes way longer. And if you play loose with the rules of the challenge, you can capture humans and use them instead of the Pals.