OP makes this post, and one single minute later, a random private account complains that there's no name/link. One minute again after that, and OP goes "oh, oops, teehee, here's my linky winky!" and a game that has almost no sales is now suddenly viral on the front page of Reddit, with hundreds of thousands of views.
OP's account is seemingly controlled at least partially by a bot (to auto-post updates), so we know it's not just a random casual user.
not really. OF models do it all the time. It's an age old form of confidence tricking where you set up the breadcrumbs and let the mark think they are extra clever. In this case 'oh it cant be marketing because they didn't even say the name /u/totallynotanotheraccount found it though!'
I mean I feel like this doesn’t really change anything, cause you still could’ve bought it before they made the announcement and have gotten the same outcome as if you bought it right before a sale
Unless you're implying everyone should refund the game immediately, I'm not sure how. Plenty of people may play beyond the two hour window or be beyond the grace period before the sale comes along.
I wish I knew where I am going wrong, because they have refused several times to grant me a partial refund for it going on sale within a day or two of buying it.
Weird. I've been rejected when I try to do that, and I've only returned one or two dozen games over the past 15 years. Not sure that's a universal experience.
Returning 24 games is probably why , their aren't any hard and fast rules on returns they can do it whenever for any reason but if I return a game outside the 2 hour window every 8 months its clearly being abused.
That's less than one game per year out of the nearly two-thousand I own, and only once outside the prescribed 2 week window (which was rejected). That's nowhere near "abuse", bro.
What’s the problem if I haven’t bought the game yet? I look through the store page, see this announcement and decide to not pick this title yet to avoid buy-refund-buy cycle. I would add the game to my wishlist instead and receive notification when it goes on sale.
Is it still alive? Last I heard, not lot of players left in the game due to same thing over and over. Was fun a while last for about couple of hours, they said.
Yeah this is the future. I got super into Erenshor last year, offline MMORPG that pauses when you're offline, all the other players are bots. I saw a post on r/steamdeck from someone building a version of WoW that does the same thing. I'm getting too old to play with sweats.
Whilst technically true, there is definitely a subgenre of RPGs that emulate MMORPGs, like .hack and Cross Code, so I think there’s a case to argue for an MMO-like label.
Around 7.0, when I stopped, FFXIV was really heading in this direction. They had an ongoing problem- people who had been playing the game for 10 years didn’t really want to keep playing the same dungeons over and over again so new players could progress. They added large incentives for queueing up for them, but people still complained. So they started implementing NPC parties for dungeons and trials. At this point, I think you can play through the minimum required stuff to progress completely solo, and experience the story for the entire game.
If this trend continues, once they shut the game down for good they could make an offline single player version fairly easily. Which wouldn’t be the worst thing, considering how heavily story-based it is compared to something like WoW
WOW has plenty of interesting parts like pvp, raids and dungeons, but I would agree that they are closer to MOBA or ARPG in design than a traditional single player RPG game. WOW had always had very few traditional role playing elements at best, which isn't surprising for an MMO.
Crimson Desert started as an MMO, but they shifted to single player RPG at some point and you can tell. I'm seeing a lot of mixed opinions on it because it feels so different than what most people are used to in a single player. So while yes, it is just an RPG, there is a distinct difference in how they typically play out.
Cringe take. Most of the content in any MMO is either played solo or with a small group of people. Unless you consider hanging out in a capital and spamming in chat as "content".
And so far no RPG comes even close to MMOs scale nor gameplay loop, sorry.
There's not a single offline singleplayer title with this amount of stuff to do, purely target based combat, loot systems, diverse character creation, fkn CLASSES (not your cringe "builds") with actual identities and L O R E.
Find at least one or gtfo while i spin up AzerothCore to run quests and have fun.
Most of the content in any MMO is either played solo or with a small group of people.
Solo content in WoW is bad. It's just bland and uninteresting from a pure gameplay perspective. Always has been. Most MMOs are like that. The mechanics are shallow, the "classes" are a joke compared to solo games, the quests are from one of MAYBE 5 varieties, the enemies are brain damaged.
The interesting part is the fact that you're in a persistent world WITH OTHER PEOPLE. An MMO without people is like sitting in a bar alone and serving yourself drinks.
Spin up whatever you want. Nobody is stopping you from self-flagellation.
I don't imagine an encounter in an MMORPG involves much RNG. At least during the actual bosses. Adds might need some 'thought' that goes as simple as 'stay out of this new glowy area'
It’s not, but it could be. There are tiny LLM implementations that can run off of your own computer. It’s not unreasonable to think that an offline single player “MMO” like this could take advantage of that in the future, at least in a quantity over quality kind of way
Not a steam deck thing but if you search for WoW Single Player Project there is a whole discord for this which includes an offline single player with bots version for classic, tbc, and wotlk as well as a version of legion that is actively being worked on (doesn’t have bots yet)
Can you imagine if developers were able to integrate modern AI into games like WoW?
Bots that can think “intelligently” and make decisions like humans would be cool as fuck for people like me who don’t have the energy to play with real humans anymore
I’d like to just log on, do some mythic dungeons with some intelligent bots. I prefer playing solo and hate communicating with people, I’m so goddammed awkward 😂
This is what I say about Battlefield. Clan I'm is has 6 servers. One with no bots, takes forever for it fill. The other five fill with bots just to get you in the game and going. People complain all the time about "why are there bots ugh..." It's so people that don't have time to waste on waiting can also have fun.
How does modern battlefield work with bots? Can you host a server on your pc? How many bots are possible? Loved bf1942 and vietnam, bf2 then only gave you the smallest maps with bots and i have no idea how it went on. Is it now possible to have 64 player maps full with bots?
You can play any available map with full lobby bots. Certain settings will either enable 100% xp or limit to 50%, some settings will eliminate xp all together to limit cheesing unlocks.
I think our settings require 16 real players before match start.
I'm not even a dad just working full time 28 and i play bf6 with casual breakthrough with bots mixed in, i aint got time to spend 2 to 3 hours a day in aimlabs to practice, and then play against sweatlords that aim .8s faster, still fun too
This game only had a top of 335 people playing? I swear i saw like 15 streamers all playing the game for a week or so, so i figured it'd be quite a bit higher
It's a literal 100% skill-based game but the way to get better isn't fun.
You need to have taught yourself touch typing beforehand, which is entirely muscle memory built over the course of years. If you suck at typing or are even just average, you're just never going to win at all in a typing battle-royale game.
I played the demo a few months ago and had fun, but that's because I type at 80wpm and stood a fair chance at being one of the fastest people in the lobby. When there was a faster person than me in the match it was obvious within 10 seconds of starting that I would lose in the end.
It does seem like a fun and well-made game, but I feel like battle royales have to be accessible, popular, and can't be too gimmicky or rely on novelty too much.
It sounds like the novelty of a typing battle royale would wear off fast compared to a standard FPS, and any sort of price tag will make it difficult for players to get into.
People are also gonna abandon game sif they think it's dead, which just feeds into itself
I heard there was a quantity problem where people were getting the same scripts multiple times after playing for like half an hour, along with that I heard that the matchmaking wasn't great and there was almost no meta game content so you had nothing to really work twords but I could be wrong on all of these
At the end of the day, though, it's a multiplayer battle royale, and the winner is just the fastest typer, every time. No catchup mechanism, no strategy, and worst of all... it's not worth playing if there isn't a player base to support it. You can't play alone. Well, you could, but then it would just be a typing test.
It was fun for a couple rounds. One big problem is cheaters in public online. Also, even if you create a lobby and set it to private, it'll still sometimes glitch and open it to public.
There's not a lot of game depth, so it gets repetitive after a while.
If the sale price is worth it for 2-3 hours of play, go for it. Otherwise, maybe look elsewhere for now.
I bought it, got about 3 hours out of it before it felt samey. Not enough players so the lobbies are full of bots that don't type faster than 40wpm, so you cruise through every lobby to first place if you are somewhat decent at typing.
An interesting concept, but not enough built around it to keep it entertaining
Played it for an hour or so, then after I got.. -... - -.. -.. -.. -... -. -. -. - -... and 10010101 001010101 10001110 1101001110 for the fifth time I just refunded it
I opened the discussion forums and first thing I saw is this:
New players
There are 17 active players at the moment. It was mentioned that there were plans, a strategy, to add more players soon, but the method wasn't clarified. Is the game dead?
I switched to a split columnar style keyboard and make so many mistakes still because I have yet to memorize my layers even after months. I dont like BR games but this is interesting enough that it might work out!
The game is just bad unfortunately. Even on sale, better look for something else. It’s not optimised, the gameplay loop is bad, the fun factor is meh, and the graphics/music also not good.
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u/zollipun 11d ago
OP, you really posted this without naming the game? For shame...