you buy it for the use of the platform of TTS
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Monday, April 22, 2024
buying an individual board game for 20 dollars each is just not worth it
Its all free
It's doubly frustrating, because maybe, MAYBE an exceptional fully feature complete digital board game could be worth $10 on its own
but they never are
Replying to Polar_ #polar_ But, I can't check/remember, but they let modders sell their own games at their own set price point right? Or no its all just free on the Workshop
there is paid DLC, that some brands work with TTS to put out, it doesn't sell though and the files are just uploaded for free anyway
Okay spooky, 10 dollar board game, and they sell a DLC for a friend pass where if you buy it you can host games for people who do not own the game, otherwise they also have to own the game
ngl, I'd pay more, that's a good model Pika
Yeah, I was trying to think about the solution
where it compromises the real choice (1 person buys and its free for everyone else like jackbox)
I like Steam remote play, but it's kind of scuffed for non-hotseat // couch-coop mp
and what they want
oh, 100% agree
I like my based boy joseph farez and his friend pass for his coop games
yeah, that's kind of what I'm imaging Pika's idea as
game is, say $30 on its own, but you can host jackbox-style lobbies with invite codes
I think games that are not online multiplayer servers, but not singleplayer at all kind of have to do this or else fuck them
board games is a specific case of this, but I think any coop game counts
yep, and tbh the reason for them to host the servers rather than just making them be self-host is marketing
you want dumb Twitch vtubers to play your game without having to mess around with setting up lobbies or anything on their end
the trivial cost for server infra is just a part of marketing
TTS is more compelling overall, sure
but reduce the barrier to entry and I think people would buy standalones
TTS covers most casual cases
I think a TTS that is more fine tuned for the DnD autists but is similar to TTS is the only thing that could be made that also sells in a similar way as TTS
Single boardgames are almost never worth it unless they radically revamp the game to be more of a computer game
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