Paralives looks so good, but I don’t usually jump into early access. I hope the team earns enough to keep development up to 1.0, and hope that doesn’t take a decade lol.
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MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 1 week ago
Interesting, thanks for posting! Monday is a holiday in the US and Paralives (a highly anticipated life sim) comes out then. I wonder if it’ll have any impact. In my gaming bubble it seems like everyone is going to get it and play all day on launch, but in reality I don’t know how interest stacks up against Sub or Forza.
iamthetot@piefed.ca 1 week ago
MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 1 week ago
Some of my favorite games were early access and I’ve played them the entire time really reveling in new features as they come out. Unfortunately, I think Paralives is going to be too buggy on launch even for me. I’m used to buggy life sims in general and I’ve done alpha testing of games, but from what I’ve seen I might wait for a bit. On the plus side, the dev team seems really dedicated. I’m sure they’ll keep working on it, it might just be years before I personally decide to jump in. I also don’t think a price has been announced. If it’s ~$20 I might go for it regardless because I’m sure I’ll get $20 of enjoyment out of it even with the bugs. I think $40 is likely and it’s not a bad price, but I’ll definitely wait for a few more months of fixes at that price point.
iamthetot@piefed.ca 1 week ago
I’d admit, CA$20 would be appealing but I suspect it will be higher.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Monday is national holiday in Germany too. Together with the weekend, I am curious if we see new peaks. About the Paralives game, to be honest I didn’t heard of it before. Maybe because that’s not the kind of game I’m looking into and therefore didn’t appear on my radar. It has 179,445 followers according to Steamdb (a third party site tracking Steam data). I think it would have been better if the game came out right at the start of the weekend. We’ll see how it performs. Looks quite nice.
MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 1 week ago
Oh! Happy early Pfingsten!
Yea, I’m expecting actual sales patterns to differ a bit for this one because it’s a cozy game. A lot of cozy gamers might not use steam regularly enough to warrant wishlisting a game. On the other hand, it’s releasing in early access and I’m not sure if enough cozy gamers want to play this as an early access game. InZOI was another early access life sim that was less anticipated than Paralives and it sold about as well as Forza 6 (on PC) though it’s not as widely played. I think they are releasing on Monday because it’s going to be pretty buggy and don’t want people playing all weekend and running into a bunch of bugs. That plus they can address bug reports as they come up during the week instead of doing it over the weekend. I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on how it sells and player stats though.