https://www.eurogamer.net/how-to-fish-one-million-sales-steam>If you've browsed the frontpage of Steam in the last few days, you'll no doubt have come across How to Fish, the debut project from developer Dazed Games. The co-op fishing game released on 20th August, and just three days later, its developer announced it had sold 1 million copies.>Despite arriving in close proximity to multiple anticipated releases, such as Mortal Shell 2, the Modern Warfare 4 beta and the Wardogs closed beta, How to Fish has been one of Steam's most played games since it launched, peaking at 268,101 concurrent players (via SteamDB) - a figure that has grown multiple times since its release day. >One thing that likely helped it reach that milestone so quickly is the price, at just £3.96 / $4.95, a 38 percent launch discount available until 27th August.>How to Fish is a physics-based fishing game for up to four players. Of course, this isn't strictly a game about fishing with a rod, as it also includes other means of acquiring sea food - such as with firearms and explosives>The game is clearly inspired by more than the recent renaissance of so called friendslop co-op games, as it also makes nods to shooters and other genres. One mechanic rewards you for landing "trick shots", an old Call of Duty community term about landing difficult shots such as no-scopes. It also lets you gamble some of your earned in-game money.
whoa whoa anon mucho texto.the this is obvious to anyone whose played any of these games. you don't need to paste the entire article to make a point holyshit.
>>746018464"Frindie Slop"
I have no friends therefore this game is friendslop aka bad
>>746018464Can't wait for AAA devs to start making friendslop games in 2030 and said games being flops because the trend is already over.
>>746020919lolAnd of course, instead of wacky characters and a nonsensical theme, you control Black lesbians with vitiligo, and the theme is "patriarchal oppression" or some shit.
>>746018464It makes sense. This way you need at least 2 copies to play the game as intended, not just one. And giftfags LOVE guilt tripping you into playing with them.
>>746018464There's some zoomer NPC brainrot happening, vrchat tried it 1 year ago and it was popular for 2 weeks
>>746021154rentfree
>>746018464I wishlisted the game when the trailer showed their FPS autismgood games succeed, concord games fail. simple as.
It's the literacy rates. On average the youth is now too retarded to grasp mechanical depth. The bar has fallen so low now that a game about watching paint dry is a best seller.
>>746021154>Black
>>746018464This is the current Steam meta, make random shit and hope you win the lottery.This is what killed big studios.
these games are pretty much the equivalent of simple board games.just some stuff that's pretty cheap and easy to learn, so you can just hop into a round and there's not too much difference between the guy who already played 10 rounds and the guy who joined for the first time.basically UNO
>>746018464These games are only popular due to streamers, and streamers are also the only way for your game to get popular unless you are a very big franchise or very lucky.They have an enormous impact on video games.
A fucking new friendslop every month, it's the most obvious industry plant ever
>no good fishing games>silly fun with friendswinning combination
>>746021414>make random shit and hope you win the lotterysame exact strat AAA studios are using
>>746021504didn't webfishing come out like two years ago?
>>746021623tranny filled shit
>>746021397I use an automatic translator, and for some reason it capitalizes "black" but not "white". Example (I won't edit the sentences below):I saw a Black woman on the streetI saw a white woman on the street.>>746021414>>746021429These comments are correct, but one thing indie devs need to understand is that they don’t need a popular product to survive. The surest way to make a living in game development is by creating games for a niche audience. I know someone who has only about 500 patrons for his dating sims for fucking years, but he gets by just fine.
>indies slowly realizing you don't need to make good games anymore, just some cheap streamer bait that doesn't function as a game, but all is good if generates some clipable moments and hope it goes viral>since this shit is extremely low effort, it can get pumped in a industrial scalewhy does everything feels like a race to the bottom?
>>746021716>I use an automatic translatorwhy?
>>746021785Because I'm retarded as fuck, so it's hard for me to write in English.(I'm writing without a translator now)
Can't they make nofriend slop for real ones like myself?
>>746018464Why are you mad kids are having fun? Why are you mad they are making friendships?
>>746021745Friendslop is basically licensed games for modern audienceYou will still get your qualityslop from autistic dev
>>746022040>Why are you mad they are making friendships?Because the entire purpose of "friendships" and "camaraderie" is always ganging up on the lonely loser.
>>746018464>games are just roblox game modes nowgod damnit. i knew that shit will spread outside of it's containment zone the moment all those slop trained kids start to have some money.
>>746018464>One mechanic rewards you for landing "trick shots", an old Call of Duty community term about landing difficult shots such as no-scopes.>a term from 1920s used in cue sport>including several other sports including fishing come the late 1950s >this retard thinks CoD is where it started
>>746022135can't be lonely if you don't want it right?
>>746022185>Flash games are just roblox game modes now
>>746022264flash games were prettier
>>746018464It was advertised aggressively, Steam and GoG sent out emails about it
Seeing all this friendslop bs is pissing me off because it's clearly the meta and my game makes absolutely 0 sense for it to have co op until the game ending, it could work before the ending but the 2nd player will be a different kind of character with much less power and moves.
>>746018464I usually love indie games but this looks like shit and sounds boring as hell. If I want to catch fish I rather replay Dave the Diver.
