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Comment on Stellar Blade PC launch Hits 99K+ Concurrent players, surpassing every other PlayStation-published single-player game on Steam

wolf@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Well, the fan service is a factor for sure… (Seriously, I find the discussion quite hypocritical: Sex sells, most actors/singers are quite good looking and most block buster movies have a cast of sexy/good locking people displaying status symbols. That is not even mentioning product placing and other shit going on in popular movies/TV shows.)

A PS 5 original which is optimized well enough to run on the Steam Deck and some potatoes smoothly
Responsive controls
Great enemy design which telegraph their intentions clearly
No in game purchases or other dark monetization schemes
A complete game which seems mostly bug free (from what I heard so far)
Shift Up Corporation seems like a company of gamer which create the games they want to play themselves

Stellar Blade and Shift Up Corporation fully deserve a great start, and I happily payed the full price of admission w/o feeling bad about it.

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DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Shift Up already had a great start lol, they printed money off the gacha games Destiny Child and Nikke. The Nikke fans who already owned Stellar Blade are currently pissed at them because the ones that already had it on PS5 got told if they wanted the collab bonuses they’d have to buy the game again.

I’m not sure why they’re surprised, ShiftUp is the kind of company that sells $60 gooner skins. It’s honestly amazing to me that Stellar Blade has all the content it does without spamming out micro transactions.

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- wolf@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Fair point, I stand corrected: I didn’t know about their prior practices.
  
  Still, I keep that Stellar Blade itself was one of the best recent game releases I experienced, and the game itself is fun!
  
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  - DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Tbf to them, one of the reasons both of those gachas were successful is that they’re actually pretty generous by industry standards. They’ll sell the gooners a $60 skin and milk the whales of all they have but the regular players can get by fine without paying a dime…
    
    But they probably will anyways because waifus.
    
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