Comment on Terraria developer bashes Unity, donates $200k to open source alternatives

darthelmet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• funnystuff97@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Terraria is like the anti-modern game. They absolutely refuse to evilly monetize their game at all. The playerbase is almost on their knees, begging them to move on from Terraria and make something else (not because Terraria is bad, but they’ve been at it for over a decade!) and they continue to churn out updates. The fanbase voted for a set of features to appear in Terraria 2, which they then turned around and scrapped, and added it as an update to Terraria. And all their updates are always free. And can’t forget about their amazing mod support.

  And redigit is just, like, the man.

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  • adamantris@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The playerbase is almost on their knees, begging them to move on from Terraria and make something else (not because Terraria is bad, but they’ve been at it for over a decade!) and they continue to churn out updates

    dont worry, im sure update 1.4.5 will be the final final final final final final final update, and then they will move in.

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Terraria update 2.0 expected release date 1E128 years

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    • darthelmet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They’ll stop updating the game whenever the Attack on Titan anime actually ends.

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      • peachfaced@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        *whenever One Piece is found

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  • spriteblood@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Also their game is literally $10 USD on Steam, compared to all the $70 ones that have been coming out lately.

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    • laylawashere44@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Tbf it takes a significantly smaller team to develop a 2d platforming game like terraria. The overhead for art and design is mush simpler too than something like a Cyberpunk 2077

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      • scv@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Also Terraria is a lot of fun and more replayable than most $70 games.

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  • TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t game at all, but I now feel like buying the game just to show my support to these awesome devs.

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    • Shush@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Same. I do game, just games like Terraria aren’t my taste, but I’ll still buy the game on my accounts to show my support to them.

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• PM_ME_FEET_PICS@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They came out around peak indie craze, 14 or so years ago. I believe they were just behind Minecraft in terms of success. Total lifetime sales for their game have it outselling Skyrim.

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• chic_luke@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s time to dust off Terraria and go on a nice run again.

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• stephenc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  One of the, if not the best games in the last 15+ years.

  I’m not exaggerating. At all. I am not a fan of a vast majority of “popular” modern games and think gaming has been on the decline since the mid-90s. Terraria is the one shining, beautiful, wonderful spot in a massive pile of garbage “AAA” and “modern indie” titles that just gets gameplay right, with no gimmicks, no BS, no story, nothing but gameplay.

  It’s one of my favorite games of all time. So all this makes me very happy.

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  • cjsolx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Out of curiosity can you define “no boring intrusive story”? Because personally I’m big on storylines, so if they nail that part then that takes the game to a whole other level

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    • wahming@monyet.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, no story period. Which is good for some people, not so much for others

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      • Hadriscus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I tried playing Terraria but gave up after an hour or so, precisely because I expected at least some kind of story and there wasn’t. It was also very awkward to control with a mouse and keyboard, I think it’s really supposed to be played with a controller. I might try it again now that I’ve got one, and less expectations

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    • stephenc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Story for me in games should be one that sets up the reason you’re playing the game and that’s basically it. No endless dialog or narrative during the game. Small bits of things that can advance the plot is fine, but most games these days seem to talk endlessly about things.

      Terraria has zero of that. You’re in the Terraria world and that’s it. No real story to tell besides what happens in the world (show, don’t tell). It’s fantastic.

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    • scv@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      In some games storyline matters, in others… not so much. Games with a storyline trend to be less replayable in my experience. One exception I can think of is This War of Mine, that game is really depressing.

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• Skrinkus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You know they’re legit when my nephew just built a PC and is excited to finally play terraria.

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