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Stardew Valley's word of mouth sales seem insane
- Thread starter Nirolak
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I actually prefer the original portraits.
Does this do all the portraits, or just these ones? Cos having like just 7-8 anime faces out of almost 30 characters would be weird.
Oh true you're right, I totally forgot that.
Yikes
Looking better...
Its obviously a great game, but this just goes to show the power of twitch IMO. Getting your game played by some of the bigger named streamers goes a very long way.
I hadnt heard about the game until I saw it being streamed, im still on the fence personally, but I wouldnt have even considered the purchase without seeing it on the top 10 games for twitch.
I hadnt heard about the game until I saw it being streamed, im still on the fence personally, but I wouldnt have even considered the purchase without seeing it on the top 10 games for twitch.
Stone Ocean
Member
Watched a couple Youtubers play and I just had to get myself a copy
No regrets, this thing is amazing
No regrets, this thing is amazing
Not sure if it's been posted but check out the giant bomb quicklook for this. Another great part of this game is discovering new things on your own and with the community:
https://youtu.be/oxDh03tqaoE
https://youtu.be/oxDh03tqaoE
Itachi87
Member
I'm actually curious as to what the full extent Chucklefish's involvement in this game is. They're the publisher, so I'm guessing they helped fund a portion of the game, but other than that what else did they help with?I mean the game is great and deserves its success but let's not pretend that Chucklefish/Starbound/Terraria muscle power didn't help
LordAmused
Member
I've been following the game since ConcernedApe started development, back in 2012. It is only last year near October/November if I remember correctly that he made contact with a publisher.
It's a one-man game, Chucklefish only helped with the release preparation, Steam Page and such.
chaobreaker
Member
As someone who will live and die by Friends of Mineral Town, what makes Stardew Valley so good? None of the subsequent HM games captivated me as much as FOMT. Rune Factory series even less.
VariableTerry
Member
I recently heard an interesting interview with ConcernedApe (http://community.playstarbound.com/...oncernedape-saturday-2nd-march-8pm-cet.15312/) from 2013. The interview is a little awkward but it was still interesting and informative. He does mention Chucklefish helping out with his website and some other things. No idea if they helped fund development though.
If the game sells a million copies he wont make $15 Million, Valve takes a 30% cut of any game sold on Steam, plus regional pricing may be different. Still he would make several million dollars with a million copies sold.
thestopsign
Member
It adds elements of Animal Crossing and Rune Factory along with a great crafting system.
Ehhh. I think I'll pass lol.
Dandy Lyin
Member
It must be so gratifying to work on something for so long and have it succeed in such a huge way. Really happy for ConcernedApe.
Regardless of how much it was a perfect storm of overlapping factors, the success is so ridiculously well-deserved.
Smaller teams tend to have a more focused vision when it comes to games. When that gets brought to its extreme and the entire game is one person, the concept really, really comes through.
That, and it's a sheer joy to play. The art, music, gameflow and even the feel of combat, simplistic as it is, are all beyond simply just functional - they're great.
Smaller teams tend to have a more focused vision when it comes to games. When that gets brought to its extreme and the entire game is one person, the concept really, really comes through.
That, and it's a sheer joy to play. The art, music, gameflow and even the feel of combat, simplistic as it is, are all beyond simply just functional - they're great.
Messofanego
Banned
LordAmused
Member
Well you are right, I somehow missed that interview.
...I have no words.
Nope, XNA.
exmachina64
Banned
At the simplest level, buy games you like.
So moe I wanna puke.
sineclamor
Member
I don't think many people deny the selling power of Twitch these days, but I wonder how many copies of this game it sold by itself. There was some absurd number of people watching it across various channels the other day, and all of a sudden it seemed like it was everywhere. I actually watched someone play for about 10 minutes, turned off the stream and bought it immediately. I could tell just from watching that tiny bit that this was something that I was going to enjoy feeding a large chunk of my free time to.
The game has solid gamepad support.
even if you have toaster for a pc, you can play this game.
Spiritwalker
Member
absolutely disgusting
It's overwhelming support on Twitch probably most definitely drove up sales. I personally bought two copies, for a friend and I, based on GAF, but watching gameplay on Twitch has given me a lot of ideas on how I want to build up my farm, etc.
Tigersprite
Member
I'm so uncomfortable with the fact that Maru just looks like a tanned anime character with this. The others aren't too bad though.
Perfect.
This goes to show that there are unserved audiences in gaming.
I think there is a real opportunity for a non-f2p, non-nintendo Animal Crossing style game. Harvest Moon is popular, but it isn't in the same league as AC. And when I look at PC, Android, iOS, and PS; I see nothing filling that AC niche. And even on Nintendo hardware, there is nothing on home console and the handheld releases are few and far between.
Idk why it is not of interest to devs. :shrug:
It's not a multiplayer open-world shooter or a MOBA.
bizzarewars
Banned
And things line Elli, Karen, and Maria are different? Portraits, sure, but an odd hangup on the names.