Others Happy Heart Panic [Build 23 SS] [Doggie Bones]
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I wasn't aware that the prerequisite of a game as a service must need matchmaking. Or balance updates, but fine, let's entertain this motion.
As far as I'm aware, HHP has indeed introduced some balance changes, even by accident. Remember how the stamina system was tweaked around build 19 in a way that made Whispy completely useless? That counts as an unintended balance change, since it changed the balance of the game.
Also, I don't know where you got your definition of games as a service since this isn't exclusive to multiplayer games, let alone MMO. Suicide Squad Kills the Justice League is confirmed to be live service, and it's practically a single player game (as of now). Multiplayer addition, being online and balance changes are just a symptom to having a game as a service (aka NOT the required standard for game as a service), since the main goal of games as a service is built on the promise of continuously releasing new content, usually sold at gradual prices (like subscriptions). Whether that content is purely cosmetic, in-game items such as weapons, or even brand new story content, the bottom line is the same. It’s all about raking in money and holding the player’s retention for as long as possible.
I'm not sure if this a conflict of experience, as I've grew up with flash games and complete-by-release games, and I can definitely say that most qualify as completed, released games, no matter how niche it is. Even with porn games, there are plenty of flash games that are very much released games. The Pussymon series, the Zone games and WITCH GIRL, not to mention the recent F95 influxes of pre-2000 pixel porn games shows that there are porn games that aren't live service.
I genuinely think you're so accustomed to updates so much that you shifted the goalpost on what games as a service actually means. I was actually one of the few people back in 2013 that was very much against this system because they weren't trying to make a complete game, rather they were selling a demo where they promised to update it to a completed game. And they make the fans pay for the development itself.
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I'm curious what AI they were using, since the release date of the article was WAY before chatgpt was even released, let alone popularized. It's a bold accussation to say that
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and Ryan Jones, from makeusof and trustedreview respectively, have made their 'career' on the internet by AI BEFORE chatgpt even existed. So, did Ryan Jones, graduate of Cardiff University, cheated his way to deputy editor by using AI? In June 2021 from the date of the article I linked?Perhaps I haven't clarified my statement then (or the articles in particular). The core feature of a live service game is that they are supported either through subscription models, season passes and microtransactions. And from these continuous payments, they are offered services throughout this period. Note: Services, not a tangible commodity.
Yes, calling SDV a live service game is ridiculous, because it does not meet any standards of a live service. However, the Star Dew Valley Plus from Apple Arcade does count, since you're required to pay a continuous amount for its service, that being cloud storage saves and some additional content.
okay im gonna settle this. the answer is NO happy heart panic is not a "live service game" it has been and never will be because it hasn't fulfilled that acutal requirements to become one. also at this point im tired of game devoplers making a game and just not finishing it. at this point going back to an rpg would be easier then to do, well this!
also don't try using ai generated articals they will only throw around nonexistent advice
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Do we seriously need to discuss and try to systemize if Happy Heart Panic qualifies as a live-service game down to trying to find very specific criteria of what a live-service game is?
I get that there's nothing to talk about regarding this game, but do we really need to discuss something like this? It's not like categorizing this game as a live-service one will change it's quality or problems that this game has or had.
I get that there's nothing to talk about regarding this game, but do we really need to discuss something like this? It's not like categorizing this game as a live-service one will change it's quality or problems that this game has or had.
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We're operating on Silksong time, lads.
It all began with a scuffle with Decckar, which then ballooned this whole page. I definitely think a clash of experience and definitions have contributed to page 188 being enlarged.
To be honest, I'm not too annoyed at the conception of game as a service, if only because it has become so widespread, that finding a game that isn't built on as a service, is incredibly rare. Which is why I very much praise Pocket Dungeon so much, since he doesn't attempt to charge you for updates for the game.
Just wait until some clown puts an MTX shop with payments directing straight to their bank account into one of these patreon cash cow projects. Everyone and their fucking dog will start copying it and throwing out the tired "b-b-but, everyone else is doing it!" excuse
Isn't Pocket Dungeon like, completed? I'm pretty sure the dev moved on from the project, even though the last version is 0.3.1, meaning that it was left technically unfinished based on the content planned.
If you check over his
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, you'll see he's working on another PMD,
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. I'm pretty sure Pocket Dungeon, as the version it stands on F95, is the completed one as he only came back to fix bugs, not add new content. Still can't believe he finished the whole game in less than 7 months.Think about it, a game is considered complete in 7 months of major updates from April to November, and only received a new update in January 2023 just for bugfixes.
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Oooooh interesting, I did not know that. Lame that the action is presumed to be text only. Pocket Dungeon had a good chunk of text, but at least it had animations. Shame :/
alright, so ive been stuck in the abc daycare for like, 3 fucking hours and i have NO CLUE on how i can leave, am i just dense? i would reeeaaally appreciate any help
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Wait, how did you get in daycare so lost in the first place? We can't help you if you're too vague with the info.
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