The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 12, 2023

It's kind of fun to pick apart Action Role-Playing games (ARPGs for short), games where players are meant to spend 1000 hours and up killing bad guys to get the best loot. (If You upgrade your loot and train your skills a lot. Getting loot upgrades is mostly searching through tons of trash in the hope of finding a mild side-upgrade.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Posting this chart every year only gets more and more fun! Every once in a while, I come up with a clump of topics too small for their own posts. That whole kill-loot-improve loop that is so addicting. A post that drew so much abuse that Substack literally added new moderation abilities because of it.

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Sirlin

JANUARY 6, 2018

Shoryuken.com asked me about loot boxes and published this article. For anyone wanting more context, here is the complete set of questions they had about loot boxes in Fantasy Strike and beyond, and the answers I provided: SRK Questions Any idea when this feature will be implemented? Loot boxes were to be ONLY cosmetic.

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Game Daily

APRIL 21, 2023

We can do interesting things with it, including adding a blockchain component that creates ann experience of being able to trade and swap cards and hunt out and build the exact deck that you want, being a little bit less reliant on loot box mechanics. “They can accelerate us to market. You can find out more here.

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Game Errors

JUNE 19, 2023

Diablo 4 is here, and fans are already hard at work looting corpses and smashing demons. Here’s how to do this: Run box Press the Windows key + R to open the run box. The post Diablo 4 Rubberbanding: How to Fix It appeared first on Games Errors. One such issue is rubberbanding.

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Game Errors

JANUARY 25, 2024

Also, the loot isn’t substantial and it can be pretty bad. Set the Death Penalty Death Penalty offers you 4 choices: Lose Your Loot Lose Your Pals Lose Everything Lose Nothing For my second gameplay I decided to lose nothing upon death , because I was tired of going back to the location where I died to get my things back.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In this blog post, we will delve into the features, benefits, and potential impact of POCO Driver on the gaming community. This functionality is particularly useful for gamers who engage in multi-boxing or managing multiple characters/accounts within a game. One such tool that has gained significant attention is POCO Driver.

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Radiator Blog

MAY 5, 2021

5 coins a day) Deposit box vault. You'll find or earn (or steal) safety deposit box keys around the game world. It's like a game show of in-world loot boxes, and it's surprisingly exciting to find out what's behind each door. You have to return to the bank to open that numbered vault door for the reward.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 24, 2024

Since unopened loot boxes are fungible (i.e. all loot boxes are functionally equivalent until opened), it doesn't matter if one person opens a thousand loot boxes or a thousand people open one loot box apiece. There's no way for a single user to do it by herself in that case.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Guest post by Kenneth Landen , Director of Product at Hit Factor Executive Summary In the ever-evolving landscape of mobile gaming, Supercell's Brawl Stars has undergone a remarkable resurgence, transforming challenges into triumphs. From a revenue dip in the post-COVID era to the removal of paid loot boxes, Brawl Stars has faced obstacles.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 5, 2021

This post is sponsored by Xsolla. Go in, loot, fight players and/or AIs, survive and extract’ is the formula pioneered by DayZ , and later honed by Escape From Tarkov , which gets the heart pumping even after thousands of play sessions. If you die, you lose all the loot, unless you’ve purchased insurance.

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Variety of Encounters The player is hopefully spending a lot of time out in the field, trashing bozos and collecting loot. The move part is always boring, and looting should always be fun. Diablo 4 has a really nasty miniboss called the Butcher who can rarely show up at any time, terrifies everyone, and drops good loot.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2020

To make sure you don’t miss all the following prediction posts, please do subscribe to Deconstructor of Fun’s powerful newsletter. OK, but where’s the loot?? The opinions expressed in this article are the author's own and do not reflect the opinions of the author's current or past employers." You can find the previous predictions here.

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Keith Burgun

JUNE 7, 2022

Above is a reddit post complaining about the moral and ethical problems with gacha games. Governments aren’t banning this game because they care about p2w or competition. Its being banned because its literally dangerous and predatory. from DiabloImmortal. This is very valid and I share these concerns.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 5, 2017

The objective of Cash ‘n Guns reminds me of my bygone art thief days because the objective is to rack up the most loot. If you drop out, you don’t get any loot but you won’t get hurt. If you stay in and no one shoots you, you get a cut of the loot. Photo taken by Wade Rockett and posted to #Flickr.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Yet -- PUBG’s net revenue was practically non-existent until 10 weeks post-launch -- when they introduced the game’s first battle pass, and didn’t reach $1 until nearly 8 months post-launch. The game’s RPI curve has flattened only a little over a month post-launch. So is COD Mobile dead? Can it ever monetize?

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The Bottom Feeder

DECEMBER 13, 2023

One good source is the Washington Post, which is in many ways still a source of news. Video games make the vast majority of their money from addicted, obsessive whales buying loot boxes and kids who buy DLC with the credit cards they stole from the parents. To its credit, it has an actual, dedicated game reporter on the payroll.

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Game Errors

MAY 26, 2023

An additional incentive for teaming up is a better loot drop system, as now all players mostly get valuable items. l ” in the box and press Enter to open Network Connections. Press the Win+R keys to open the Run dialog box. Unfortunately, you may experience random game crashes in Destiny 2 with the Olive error code.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

This post is sponsored by Xsolla. The game showed its hit potential early as it was touted by the Supercell CEO in his yearly blog post. The bad part is that marketing on iOS is much more challenging post IDFA. How are they going to keep growing post Apple featuring? Written by Javier Barnes and Michail Katkoff.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

It is an interesting case to study the key characteristics of the creation of a hit in the post-IDFA environment. The main reasons are that Snap ’s approach to monetization has limited spending depth (no loot boxes, weak upgrade systems, no sharding system for acquisition, small card collection, and deck).

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 18, 2023

In the post-IDFA era of marketing, the role of a brand has significantly increased while programmatic user acquisition is gradually handicapped by privacy changes. Given the bind hypercasual publishers are in post-IDFA, the future for Ruby games is tied to their ability to pivot to hybrid monetization. But that time is long gone.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

This post is sponsored by Xsolla. More straightforward character builds Finally, one of the core concepts on LoL , AoV, and Mobile Legends is that during the match characters level up, upgrade their skills and buy equipment/items using gold looted from kills. Maybe the randomizing mechanic didn’t have to be a loot box per se.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2022

Passes also lack strong frustration points that generate disappointment , compared to other monetization mechanisms like timers (that temporarily block the access to the fun) or loot boxes (that obfuscate the actual value of the purchase). Instant Exclusive Rewards. MORE rewards on the PREMIUM track.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The Playrix Approach of Performance Marketing This topic is explained in some of the articles posted in Deconstructor of Fun but at its simplest, there are 2 metrics that we look into to understand how high we can scale a game, CPI (Cost per Install) vs ROAS (Return on Ad Spend). Visiting is incentivized in Township.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

SPOILER WARNING: this post spoils levels, main quests, and gameplay systems in Deathloop I guess this post is my contribution to Deathloop discourse. Aim-down sights, cover boxes, short TTK, etc. I don't discuss much of the game narrative. I assume general game design knowledge but minimal Deathloop-specific knowledge.

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The Bottom Feeder

AUGUST 30, 2023

Then I had to get over a chasm by yeeting myself across in a box I stuck rockets to. This post is about some good things. The next post will be about problems. I'll get into this more in the next post.) Not filling up a bar or farming loot. Subscribe now Subscribing is free, and you get all these in your in-box.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

If you'd like to get a peek at Jud's callouts for the individual merchants and stands shown here, head on over to our Patreon and check out our recent posts. If you don't believe us, just take a look at the custom effects we implemented this week for our basic sword attack, block, and loot-XP actions.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2022

This post is sponsored by Xsolla. Nowhere is this more evident than on Clash Royale , where in words of the dev team : Source: Clash Royale Community talk Level 14 and Slash Royale (Official Post), Reddit. Opinions shared are personal and do not reflect those of their employers. Want to hear us debate Clash Mini?

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 4, 2019

Read more about our thoughts around this category and its future in our 2019 Casino category prediction post. * Since the defender has no way to protect his coins during a raid, the odds are balanced for the attacker by limiting the total loot that can be stolen and also fragmenting the total loot across the defender’s base.

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