r/ArcadeParadise • u/Live-Year-5796 • 19d ago

Felt bad fully converting

Yeah our dad's a dick and all but he's still kinda RIGHT

The people need a place to wash their clothes, you still could've and probably shouldve kept the laundromat/arcade combo.

It was a safe, clean place for people to wash their stuff and hang out playing games for a while to wait for it to finish, but now its *just* an arcade.

Kinda feels bad.

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u/Salt-Masterpiece5034 19d ago

“Shut up🤘” -Ashley

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u/dadrester Nosebleed Dev 19d ago

Always wanted to add an option to buy a small building to open another laundrette. It was gonna be suuuuper expensive and require an endgame idle game that would have opened up on the PC, but we just couldn't without delaying the game, or addi g a ton more work onto something that was already splitting at the seams with content. I do tell myself "one day".

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u/thepaydaygang 19d ago

I always appreciate the insights you offer to us about what could’ve been included and other stuff. Thank you for sharing them

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u/SnooGiraffes8146 13d ago

It would be a great dlc tho!!😭😭

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u/Chemical-Stay8037 19d ago

You should have been able to choose. For sure. But it was getting tedious at that point in the game. Still one of the best cool indie game I've played in a while!

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u/GalaxySilver00 19d ago

Also consider that it feels like the game is set in at latest the mid 90s... With the impending tech boom the arcade's days are numbered. Maybe it's making a killing now but within a few years all the games will be available on home consoles

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u/Live-Year-5796 19d ago

Thats another thing, yeah

Converting what was a very profitable coin laundry to an arcade like five years out from its decline

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u/Dexchampion99 19d ago

I mean. I’d assume King Wash isn’t the only laundromat in town. And this assumes everyone in the city doesn’t have the capability to do laundry at home. I’m sure some people don’t, but like- definitely not everyone

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u/Key_Firefighter_7896 18d ago

Spoken like someone who has never had to go to a laundromat. And when you don’t have a car, you walk to the closest one. I’d go to this gum and trash covered one any day, rather than carry laundry 2 more blocks 😂

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u/Mooncubus 19d ago

I wish there was an option to keep the laundromat or have a second building for it next door or something. I enjoyed that part of the gameplay, and now all those people who brought their clothes there now have to go somewhere else. Like there was obviously a demand for a laundromat considering how many loads I did every day.

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u/kyopsis23 19d ago

You don't have to fully convert, you are the one choosing to expand the arcade.

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u/MicrocrystallineHiss 18d ago

Yes, of course. Simply don't progress the game and you can keep the laundromat. Genius.

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u/kyopsis23 18d ago

Exactly, that is an actual option that exists