The dilemma of actually progressing the game from Klei's POV

[Theukon-dos]

2 hours ago, nimzowitsch10 said:

@Theukon-dos

I haven't touched minecraft or terraria after beating the "final bosses" and getting all the best gear and building a decent base.

There was no point after that for me personally.

I feel like that is the thing with all sandbox games, some people play till 10k days and some people get bored after the first year but I would say most people probably are leaning towards getting bored after killing the final boss (charlie/wagstaff/whatever)

Ok. So?

I'm not an intrinsically motivated player either. But that doesn't mean the game stops the moment you beat it. There are plenty of people who can keep going for hundreds of hours on a single world even if they beat the boss or not.

 

If you really want an answer to "what can they add after finishing skill trees and/or rifts" though, the answer is whatever they want. There are still plenty of aspects of the game that can get updated or reworked. Terraria doesn't focus only on the last stage of progression or adding Harder mode with every update. They can update the seasons, add new biomes, add new characters, rework bosses. Plenty of options to choose from.

[WANZUN]

In the past, it seems that major updates have been announced once a month, generally speaking, companies acquired by Tencent will work harder, and klei is obviously not among them.

[lowercase skye]

3 hours ago, Cheggf said:

Don't Starve Together: Forge Weapons Chest on Steam

Don't Starve Together: Forge Armor Chest on Steam

2 hours ago, Cheggf said:

You mean, the boxes that contained items from those bundles? 

What's your point here exactly? I cannot actually tell from these witty remarks.

[somethin]

4 hours ago, WANZUN said:

there are no large-scale events like melting pot or gluttony

IIRC they actually lose money doing those events at the time, so they don't really do it anymore so they refocus to update the main game content.

[WANZUN]

11 minutes ago, somethin said:

IIRC:他们当时做这些活动实际上是赔钱的，所以他们不再真的做了，所以他们重新专注于更新主要的游戏内容。

Focus on what, I don't know if he really doesn't make money, and he doesn't focus on dst ontology.

If you want to make money, doing dlc should be the first choice. If you really rely on selling skin and perfunctory updating, I think it's better to finish it.

In the past, it was possible to update ds, update activities and update dst at the same time. Tencent acquired a lot of creative workshops and activities in March. I really don't see where I'm going to work hard.

[somethin]

1 minute ago, WANZUN said:

Focus on what, I don't know if he really doesn't make money, and he doesn't focus on dst ontology.

Well, back then a new reign wasn't a thing. You know, the update that give us the iconic raid bosses? Yeah, they focus on that. I think there are some old dev post on this forum and a few update timeline video out there that's more clear on this topic than me since it's been a WHILE.

[Aester]

You mention (my beloved)Terraria but at the same time you don't take it into account. Devs finished it, but It's one of the most popular games. And at the same time it has been in development for more than 12(!) years.

Making games is hard. Especially games with a lot of details and huge fanbase. I think you're overcomplicating it.

[WANZUN]

7小时前，有人说:

好吧，那时候新的统治不算什么。你知道，给我们标志性的突袭头目的更新？是的，他们专注于此。我认为这个论坛上有一些老开发人员的帖子和一些更新的时间线视频，在这个问题上比我更清楚，因为它已经有一段时间了。

I don't need to see it. I've been playing this game for too many years. Before, bug was repaired on Monday, shipwreck and Hamlet released, melting pot season 1, I know what the game used to be like, I still know internal test players, how to evaluate now klei, English doesn't seem to show, *