There's so much fighting between PS and Xbox folks on social media, when a game blows up on Steam and the game is only on one of the consoles and console folks are talking about acquiring the dev despite the popularity and sales is happening on Steam, not console.
Same thing with BG3. Explodes in popularity on Steam. Console people fight. PS players starts talking about acquiring Larian when Steam is the cause of the game's success.
Happens every time.
Steam is the Roman Colosseum and we are all just watching the indie games dook it out to see who will live to fight another day.
In some cases MS and PS are there in the VIP spectator seats just looking down and eyeing who to put on their roster.
I'm not sure about MS but with Sony they have YosP who is the one going to the indie events and checking out games. He likely also pays attention to steam.
They don't really do EA on PS and given the past stuff people mention about Pocketpair, there was likely not much faith there in the game.
MS meanwhile took a chance and it seems to be paying off to a degree.
Early Access games can be released on consoles....but you would likely have a situation similar to Risk of Rain 2, which I'm not sure if some one like MS or Sony would want to pay a lot of money to advertise a game as, yeah PC will be getting the updates first and everyone else will have to wait a few weeks to a month or more to get the new update but that's play because it's here.
Has EA been available back in 2019 and Notche was okay with putting Minecraft on Steam. Oh boy imagine the amount of money that could have been made there. Streaming and VoD was still in a weird place back then so things definitely would have been way different than they are now. Either way Minecraft went on to be HUGE. By the way the other Minecraft similar game was it very disappointing? I remember hearing that both games where in Alpha around the same time but the other game didn't really release anything for almost a decade before people actually got to play it and they didn't like it.
Now that they have money and are still in EA, they could (as other mentioned) try to change the character designs and see how that goes. You will still have people calling it Pokemon with guns, but hopefully it makes it way less obvious?
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Also funny how a lot of people talking about Pocket monsters are only talk about that and not ARK. Hey yeah this game copies Pokemon, ahh ARK, yeah I have never played that game before anyway yeah you should go play these other Monsters raising games instead. What's makes them similar to Palworld other than just being able to capture and raise monsters? Nothing since they aren't even the same genre. If people wanted a good monster raise games they would just play easier versions of Pokemon instead or something.
Next thing Valve needs to do is add an official monster trainer/raiser genre on Steam.
I'm not hearing mentions of Monster Rancher for some odd reason though.
Anyway it sucks how it seem like ATLUS did not release a PC CE for P3R but for some reason they choose to do pre-order exclusive stuff.... I'm buying the CE but they will never give me the pre-order stuff in the future. It's really scummy of them to do that. But I guess it's better than being forced to buy it from their official store and paying a lot of money for shipping fees.
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On Steam they call it Creature Collector.
People can't even seem to agree on the same term.
Wouldn't the correct term be Monster Trainer?
DQ V and Shin Megami where among some of the earliest games that had Monster taming as a game feature? It looks like Wizardry 4 also had a feature sort of like that, but it was not as robust as Shin Megami, since in Wizardry 4 you could only have the monster follow you around for 1 flor level, and they don't level up or anything. Or so I have read.
How many people do Pocket Pair have exactly?
