Someday this will be in a museum of cultural artifacts from this time period. What will the historians say about it?

I’ve never experienced a game that destroys time faster than this one, agreed. It also makes you sound completely unhinged to your partner when talking about what you just spent 6 hours doing.

Things like apkmirror are doing god’s work as far as I’m concerned. No problems with them at all.

+1 to this. And yes I’m extremely biased as a kid from Seattle.

I was really shocked at the speed of it. Very surreal experience.

Totally agreed on that. Sorry didn’t mean to derail the thread. I just thought someone might be interested to know about the automated stuff.

Sounds believable. We definitely didn’t download it so I couldn’t say for sure.

I learned when I released an unsuccessful mobile game a couple years ago that there are apparently automated piracy sites out there. I say that because we found a seemingly hacked version of the game on some sketchy app sites just a week after releasing it (and nobody knew about our game, so I highly doubt it was done by hand).

Hey, we bots are people, too!

Sorry, what was that? “BUY BUY BUY”?

I went to school with a kid named Merlin Sunlight.

Did he say it noz-moh or noh-smoh?

Make a sanity roll

I remember seeing this before and someone shopped the bone just a little ahead of him. 😆

As a fellow spare time dev who dreams of having that much success, I feel your pain, and also want to wish you a heartfelt congratulations. That’s a massive achievement! I hope you have success with it whenever you launch. 👏

Oh I see. Sorry for the off-topic response then!

It’s a shame that multiplayer games really struggle with paid models these days. It heavily cut into a player base if things aren’t free to play. That kind of forces all but the biggest releases to turn to other monetization models in order to keep the base game free.

I think it’s tough with card games because they come from a physical form of lootboxes. Being expensive is kind of baked into their lineage. Collecting cards is a big part of the fun, and if you made it very easy to do I think it’s hard to say whether people would enjoy them as much.

I don’t play any collectible card games anymore because I don’t want to pay for it anymore, but there is something very entertaining about the model even if it’s easy to argue it’s a scummy business model by today’s standards.

I haven’t looked into this game beyond your description, but it does sound like a pretty weird model. Do you also have to pay for cards on top of that?

I remember kind of disliking the arena system in hearthstone because I liked the game mode a lot, but as a casual player it was really hard to get to play it much. I guess they wanted to keep people from spending all their time there since you didn’t need to buy cards to play. I much preferred magic arena’s drafts where you pay an upfront cost but get to keep all the cards you played with. Much more accessible for casual players and more satisfying, too, since you always get something out of it.

This meme is selling shovels, and the comments here are more than happy to dig holes it seems.

Nail clippers. Got them originally to help with a bad habit of cuticle picking, but I’ve learned they’re weirdly useful. They can cut things in a pinch and no security check gives a shit about them unlike a pocket knife.

This article perfectly sums up the issues with this way of writing. Unfortunately people often don’t acknowledge the nuance there, and will jump down this reviewer’s throat for the take I imagine.

It’s icing on the cake that apparently there was even an in-lore term for something like a trans character of this species that they didn’t use. That makes it seem like they didn’t even study their own lore well enough. Never what you want to be thinking about a writing team. 🫤