Dude, you guys are placing way too much fucking emphasis on Steam reviews. If you knew what I know then you'd know that this game is never going to get glowing reviews on steam. Ever.
I played a game called Souldiers, it's a metroidvania basically. Game had 3 difficulty settings, easy normal and hard, the usual. Reviews tore the game to fucking shreds because these entitles little fuccbois couldn't bring themself to play on the easier modes which were designed specifically for them and so they complained that the game was too hard and it got review bombed (and then ultimately ruined by the devs caving in and making hard mode piss easy to placate them) (((Devs ruined the game for nothing btw, those types of players don't come back regardless of what you do to appease them so all the devs ended up achieving was ruining their game, alienating their current fanbase and not winning back any of the people that bitched for the very changes they wanted the devs to make)))
A permadeath, full loot game in which you can lose your entire base if you place the wrong fucking pali gate down or forget to renew your claim after you're killed and somebody studies it was never in a million years going to be the apple of steam players eyes. You're living in some fucking lala land that simply doesn't exist outside of fantasy if you thought there was anything that could be done to placate these kinds of 'people'.
Most people do not like difficulty. Dark Souls is what the common casual considers 'peak difficult' and Souls like games are laughably easy.
I swear, within a month of this steam release you should fully expect non-troll posts on the forum about people quitting because they raided an ant nest and a fast ant knocked their ass out or an owl eagle flying over their base and fucking them up while they panic so hard that they can't even walk into their house which is a few feet away or trying to mine a wall and getting their face caved in in by a massive cave in, or not paying attention to bats and getting mobbed by them in a cave or dying from multiple adder bites or having somebody break their dugout from under them or having the ocean do that for them.
I dunno what fucking audience you think this steam release is going to bring but it's certainly not the casual shitters.
They need to have their hands held at all times. Haven doesn't do that; you're dropped into the world and basically have to figure out everything yourself because the tutorial quests that are in the game are barebone as fuck.
Their ADHD Zoomer brains need constant stimulus and instant gratification. They're going to expect their crops to be grown after 20 minutes like they're playing fucking Stardew Valley or some shit.
They're going to shit themselves and bitch and moan on twitter and in the Steam forum when some player calls them some totally problematic slur they don't like
and they'll demand J&L do something about it, and when they don't they're going to have a fucking meltdown which is all too common these days.
This game in its current state is never going to win this sort of audience over. It's always going to be niche unless it gets watered down into being just some other garbage mainstream slop. I thought this was common knowledge tbh.
Best we can hope for with the Steam release is that it finds likeminded individuals such as ourselves, but I'm really not expecting even triple or double the usual numbers we get. Maybe an initial spike but there's obviously going to be poor retention. Hell, there's poor retention even amongst the regulars, which is one of the many reasons as to why I've been advocating for shorter world cycles for years now.
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by SiO2 » Mon Sep 30, 2024 12:04 am 
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) you basically split people into two servers for no good reason, make alt/account sharing a pain for steam users (and sadly game incentivizes that) and a whole lot of other issues. When games like poe or albion entered steam they just allowed ppl to choose how they want to play the game without splitting the server into steam and non-steam. 
