I can't complain (and shouldn't) about the update. It's literally free content with no price increase to the game. However I guess it just comes down to overhyping myself. I thought the new game modes would be in the style of when nightmare mode came out. Whole new lot of people with different things to look out for.
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The 2 new modes are fine but they're just Arcade mode and nightmare mode except they last longer (basically). One being infinite/until you die (nightmare/endless) and one being arcade mode except over 7 days with a little more lore. It does have the new mechanic of people from previous days who died being now dead for the rest of the campaign. So if you let a dopple in they'll kill their roomates or if you simply kill an innocent nieghbor they no longer will show up.
Again I CANNOT complain really. It's a free update and it does add to the game. I just overhyped myself and made the assumption the two new modes will be whole new characters to identify and play with.
The endless mode does feel odd considering you could have just made it so when you click on nightmare mode their could have just been a check box to make it endless? A whole tab to be endless feels odd.
With that said a "Custom" mode with tick boxes to change how it plays could be amazing. Even things like ticking off what can be different. So if you just want it to be physical changes you can untick everything but physical changes.Would also work really well as a practice mode.
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1) As much as not having to manually dial would be a nice quality of life change I do think it would take away from some of the charm. Maybe after earning a certain number of wins the phone can be replaced with a numberpad phone instead? Just a thought.
2) Again I think it adds to the charm. It slows you down sure but for me that's the feel the game is giving. The steps of closeing the shutter, picking up the phone and then manually dialing the DDD all feel like a way to pace the game out. I do see how it gets tedious after doing it 100 times however. (I myself have put a good amount of time into the game)
3) Would be a cool change I agree.
4) Yeah I also think this'll be pretty cool. Make the noraml difficulty super hard and much more subtle changes. (as a seperate mode or difficulty slider)
5) Think you've just been lucky/unlucky. I've had loads of wrong names and numbers. Heck some rounds I don't get a single appearence difference and all just document based changes. "like giving the wrong job, the wrong apartment number/floor, etc" They can have the wrong reason where it says "My apartment is floor 3 room 2". Sometimes that can say the wrong place. I agree on the apartment number and job though. I always check these just encase but they're always right.
6) Oh interesting! I've never noticed any myself (Native english speaker) but i'm just likely too ignorant to pay attention.
One quality of life change i'd like to personally see is the ability to cross people off the list. If I let someone in I think it'd be cool if I could open the list back up and just cross that person off. However I do see why maybe this won't be a good idea because at the momen the lack of ability to do this does add to having to memorize who you have and haven't let in yet. It also gives you an exucse to call their apartment to check if you already let them in. So this might not be a great quality of life change.
Something that could also be cool is the ability to earn money? Then spend that money ON quality of life upgrades. So like mentioned before about a numpad phone or like i just said with crossing people off. The ability to buy a numpad phone with points earned from playing or a pen would be kind of cool. Would make the game feel like there is more of an "end goal" even if it's to just unlock things.
It just feels....disrespectful to the original supporters. The original supports are likely why there was a big push to steam in the first place. Heck likely the reason the developer decided to put more content in the game. If the game got no support the developer would have likely just moved onto his next project/game. He got the financial backing from people buying a product on Itch.io because they wanted to support the game even though I bet it was very easy to pirate (I never checked but I can only imagine it was).
Like it just discourages people in the future to want to financially back products they like because the end result will be them getting left behind. I guess they get early access to the game? but now they have to make a second purchase just to get it on steam.In this case left behind refering to no multiplayer and updates coming later to itch game owners.
YES we can repurchase it. There might be a day I will re-purchase it. I'll still feel like its unjustfied however when I make that purchase.
Why are you compelled to defend this? Honestly I don't get it. Early supporters in any other scenario would usually receive compensation for supporting early development. As a thank you for allowing the developer to be able to fund further development. That's pretty standard. In this scenario people are mostly asking for a steam key because they're being treated better. They're getting features that aren't going to be even be added here and are also getting updates 2 weeks earlier. It’s pretty reasonable for people to feel a little betrayed for seemingly being treated worse despite being the reason development probably continued at all.
They are getting it for free though? They're just having to wait an extra 2 weeks before recieving the update on itch.io.
I could understand your comment if Mike was deciding not to update the Itch version and he's claiming that the steam version has more, so that's why its a different price and you're having to pay more. However that isn't the case. He's willing to give people the update worth $3. Yet he's not willing to simply just instead give over a steam key. Which in turn just seems like he's doing it to get people to buy the product twice. In turn essentially punishing early supporters.
The reason it's leaving a bad taste in peoples mouths is because it shows that being an early supporter and supporting the product by buying it early on Itch.io. Means you get nothing in return except a 2 week delayed update and people like you telling them their opinion is unjust despite it being a solid reason to be upset.
It's extremely common for developers to release products early/early access/early alpha for lower prices. To then give the full release for free to people who supported you early on. It's strange why that very normal practice isn't being done here. Maybe there is a solid reason but he could have stated a good reason in his post.
Not sure why but I really enjoyed this. I think it reminded me of the original ratchet and clank games with ranged or melee damage, platforming and bosses. Except I get to play as a cute little witch :D.
You have my thanks for entertaining me for a couple hours while I continued to play over and over. @pupuya