Very excited and thankful for the update, but because i enjoy this game so much i just have to say having to completely start over to get Nightmare Difficulty rewards is real sad. I waited for 1.0 specifically to jump in and grind face, and i have been, so to see ill have to set that to the side and grind it all out again definitely bums me out.
Will still likely check it out but if possible, please look into a way to do Nightmare Challenges in an existing save!!
Zero plans to implement nightmare challenges into existing saves, as it's complex how they're granted across the save slots and the entire point is to give people an additional chase item if they want it.
Please use something other than twitter to disseminate info. Bluesky and even Threads are both much better options.
They really aren't. The article goes on Steam tomorrow though, but X articles is a great way to get these pieces out to a lot of people quickly.
Talk about a total miss. Worried about player retention? Let's make them restart to play nightmare. So what's the point of playing until the patch?
Why would we be worried about player retention in a single player, offline, optional online co-op game?
Sucks for people who have farmed for their best accessories and epic echoes to prep for nightmare difficulty, only to be told it didn't matter since we'll have to start over.
Oh well, that sucks but I'll start over for those rewards and to keep playing with friends. Let's hope the rewards are worth it.
When we first mentioned nightmare and hardcore as a hypothetical addition to the game we said it would require a new game save.
Devs don’t care about their player base or retention, as stated in this thread. Just an incredibly short sided decision for a quick buck.
What buck? This isn’t content we’re charging for. We delivered a new difficulty with totally optional rewards tied to difficulty as was the number one most requested feature from the players reading Reddit, discord, and Steam forums.
Are the items acquired on the nightmare challenge account wide though?
Yes, per the article.
These rewards persist across all save slots once they’re unlocked in Nightmare mode, applying to both existing and new save files.
Is it only artifacts and cosmetics, or do we know if there will be higher gear/echoes?
There are NO changes to gear or echoes.
People are upvoting this wild tone deaf response from the executive producer? That is wild.
Admitting you don't care if people want to keep playing your game after you get their money from the initial purchase is deeply concerning. You are literally admitting this project is nothing more than a cash grab for you.
No I’m reaffirming that our game isn’t an online, seasonal focused games as a service title that lives or dies by player numbers and instead is a self contained experience that lives forever that anyone can play whenever they want and however they want.
He also admitted they have no plan of continued support if the game does well.
If there was any plan to release new content, if the playerbase was large enough, they would care deeply about player retention. Hell, if they cared about the project at all past solely being a means of short-term profit player retention would matter.
Respectfully, you're putting words in my mouth, and I also feel the original and continued use of "player retention" in this context is incorrect mainly due to the term's usage in online games & sp titles is quite different.
Online games rely on continuous player engagement over long periods, linked to monetization strategies like microtransactions in rotating stores etc. This as well as the onboarding and quest drop requires player retention to be finely tuned so they keep coming back daily and converting over and over to keep the service running. We do not operate a live game anymore; we do not look at retention numbers over 30/14/7/1 day intervals. It is irrelevant.
Single-player retention ensuring players complete the main experience and return for optional or new content if they deem the title worth of their time. We've heard people deem the game worthy of their time and they want a reason to return once they feel they got their money and time's worth, so we delivered.
Can someone help me? I enter the game on my steam deck and the graphics are stretched and i can't change them in the options because i can't apply, i press Y and i can't accept the changes, can't move the selection at all. I put a review on steam but nobody replied and i don't know where i can go to ask for help.
There is a difference between putting words in your mouth and being held accountable for what you said. I'm doing the latter.
What you are explaining now is a direct contradiction to the short and blunt comment you made in response to the initial commentors' constructive player feedback.
You had an inappropriate outburst and are now trying to defend it via backpedaling rather than being accountable. Maybe own up to how absurd your initial statement was and listen to feedback, rather than making snarky, prideful, dismissive remarks to player concerns.
He also admitted they have no plan of continued support if the game does well.
Sorry, but this is the definition of putting words in my mouth.
In one of the pictures I seen “The Trickster” as a reward, is that a new WayFinder or a persona?
It's a persona for Kyros
Is there a location where I can read patch notes? There was a 100mb patch tofay but I'm not sure what changed. Google doesn't have an idea where to find those patch notes.
Xbox….?
Please read the article.
No one’s gonna start from scratch, likely dead game mode minus a few die hard fans lowkey lol
Could be salvageable with something like main story progress carry over though…who wants to really do that again.
As mentioned a few times in this thread a lot of people have asked for a reason to replay the game in a pseudo NG+ type of way.
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