The title says it all. I had noticed the last 3 weeks that the game feels empty again. Many of the new players that had built around me are gone. Now I just see the same old user names again.
According to Steam, May saw a 32.6% increase in average players which is huge, but nearly all that gain has evaporated in the last 30-40 days.
Hopefully, some of those new players from May brought revenue to the company but it would be nice to see those players retained. Can they be contacted with some after-the-sale, post-marketing?
I will go ahead and add the somewhat pointless and obligatory, “Steam does not include PS4 users” in advance.
After future sales, what can be done differently by the long-term player base to improve retention?
Sadly we are seeing more and more people taking breaks too which is not good. Hopefully the upcoming rental worlds will make up for that! fingers crossed
Hoping they are also finally making some noise about it soon tho, this game deserves way more players!
Speaking as still a new player (about 3 weeks now) I can tell you exactly when I hit a wall and wanted to quit. It was the getting gems. You need gems for the power thingys so that you can start to produce more things. To get those gems you have to take your trusty iron hammer to gem world’s and breaking one block takes 6 or 7 swings. It was agonizing and it made me not want to turn the game on. I got over it. Kind of. I’ve still only gathered diamonds for a mass craft. I’ve yet to bring myself to go in search of other gems yet.
I still haven’t got my shop up and running. I chose to make my workshop out of marble and mosaic so you can imagine how long it’s taking me lol. But good advice, thank you. I’ll get my shop up and running so I can finally start to earn some much needed coin.
Seriously I only mined my first titanium seam on the T7 exo Syrman and I’m level 43. I legit just don’t mine at all. Lol the economy has been a blessing for me.
I’ve struck up a deal with a friend of mine that if I provide the bitter beans, he’ll make me the forged gem tools I need. I’ll finally venture back into the mines again.
I’m still following Boundless, but… the clock is definitely ticking with Hytale looming in the distance.
They’re almost lucky here that Riot Games bought the studio and changed the game’s trajectory… It’ll hit even harder when it finally lands, but now it’s inadvertently bought some time for the Wonderstruck folks to pull their game together.