Perma-Perma-Death. Upsilon Circuit

[George]

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Part video game, part science. This game only lets a player live once. 8 players at a time over the entire community.


An ARPG where you only have one chance. What are your thoughts?

[ShirokuTheHusky]

Or rather, what are your LAST thoughts?

[Angder]

All based around one gimmick? Check.

Limited lifespan? Check.

Reliant on constant maintenance? Check.

If that video is to be believed, only available to a very limited audience (Those able to play at the time of the stream)? Check


If its a genuinely good game, they are crippling themselves with the method of releasing it. If its a bad game, they are trying to sell it purely on the gimmick, the latter option makes infinitely more sense to me.


I give it 6 months. Tops. And then it will either release an "Infinite mode" for the game, or vanish completely, to the same pit of obscurity and stupidity the Flock is in.

Also I reckon you will get a LOT of boring streams of overcautious players hanging back and stalling rather than being fun to watch. Good viewing material should involve players taking risks. That will rarely happen in a perma-death game.

Its possible I am wrong, if so then congratulations to the dev team! But I am highly skeptical, and certainly have no interest in playing/watching it myself.

[George]

All based around one gimmick? Check.

Limited lifespan? Check.

Reliant on constant maintenance? Check.

If that video is to be believed, only available to a very limited audience (Those able to play at the time of the stream)? Check


If its a genuinely good game, they are crippling themselves with the method of releasing it. If its a bad game, they are trying to sell it purely on the gimmick, the latter option makes infinitely more sense to me.


I give it 6 months. Tops. And then it will either release an "Infinite mode" for the game, or vanish completely, to the same pit of obscurity and stupidity the Flock is in.

Also I reckon you will get a LOT of boring streams of overcautious players hanging back and stalling rather than being fun to watch. Good viewing material should involve players taking risks. That will rarely happen in a perma-death game.

Its possible I am wrong, if so then congratulations to the dev team! But I am highly skeptical, and certainly have no interest in playing/watching it myself.

All good points, and all similar to my thoughts. Still, this is an interesting idea and I'd like to see what others think of it.

[anoni]

There's another game, I forgot what it was called, but basically the idea is the game runs as normal but when players die something like 1,000,000 as a whole, the game shuts off and basically the game "ends"

[Angder]

There's another game, I forgot what it was called, but basically the idea is the game runs as normal but when players die something like 1,000,000 as a whole, the game shuts off and basically the game "ends"

That's "the flock". Its an interesting idea, but poorly executed.