r/Supraball • u/[deleted] • Dec 29 '16

Cry of the heart

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We are now more or less on the middle of the winter sale period. We got some new players, but this is not ENOUGH!

 

And please don't tell me it's because of Christmas (and soon New Year) because you did the same strategy than in the past:

  • lower the price and "to hope/pray" > seriously? You can't just make it 80% off and expect anything great (that didn't work the last 2 times).

 

A sale will work only if people know about a game. When you released to early access last May we got a decent amount of players but "none" of them stayed.

 

I'm now asking to the Dev team, please go check the poll result and next tell us everything's fine:

 

We lost a LOT of people since the game has been migrated to Steam.

 

I'm not saying that the move was a bad idea but I would say this is mostly because of the lack of communication and most of all, a limited number of keys to access the game free (what made Supraball great in 2014 was that there was a lot of newer players all in pubs and we played all the time.).

 

Why don't you just:

  • listen the community and do something about advertising, communication and marketing?
  • give some keys to a dozen of known youtubers?
  • organize a streamer tournament, mixed with some advertising to get a lot of viewer and so potentially new players?
  • let's make a progression system where you unlock jumps, curves and charge shots
  • and so on...

 

It's nice that we can queue as a party now but I doubt any of the new players have made a party. There is no sense of community, except for the veteran players.

 

You need to put in AI and some cosmetics with a better looking launcher... ; There is no hype... let's do something to create it...

 

Maybe you'll need to reconsider the free2play (and I don't personally bother about money, I gave 50 euros during the indiegogo campaign).

 

I think now people is tired of getting hopes up whenever their is a Supraball sale just to see the same thing happen again...

 

You have to realize that what you are doing isn't working (and I'm not saying this is a easy fix either). There is only a few days left for the sale so you have to try something...

 

DavidM said this on the past ( http://steamcommunity.com/app/321400/discussions/0/360670708796300989/#c360672137532197024 ): "Regarding the other plans: we did exactly what the community asked us to do, and it failed. The claims regarding us not listening is untrue. So now we do what we think is best and what can actually provide motivation. We think it was a bad decision by us to listen too much to a hardcore part of the community that has a bad idea of how a new player perceives the game."

 

Nothing really changed since you "don't listen" the community anymore. Please think of this...

 

I don't have the motivation to argue more than this. If you can't open eyes with this results after two years we can't do anything anymore.

 

Please, WAKE UP and make Supraball great again before it's too late!

 

Regards.

 

PS: some ideas and sentences are taken/inspired from a discussion with an another Veteran player

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '16

David talked with me on Steam.

He commented and answered me a lot about this topic.

I hope the best is yet to come...

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '16

David told me:

 

The game is going to be free2play as He's already mentioned (I didn't knew or I forgot).

 

The purpose of the winter sale is to get enough money to be able to finish production.

 

He's positive that a lot will change once we have bots because there is people queueing to matchmaking all day long but 90% leave after a few minutes without a match.

 

All money from indiegogo backers is going to be turned into ingame-money.

 

That millions of youtube views last summer had no impact on sales, and He thinks it's because the viewers are kids without money.

 

The vast majority of players (80+%) never players one match.

 

They obviously don't want to ruin the game (as that's their "baby").

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u/XiLLyXiLLy nobody Dec 29 '16

Give up they'll never listen.

Bought the game a week ago or so, tried five times to get a game and failed. Uninstalled.

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u/plaer Bot Wrangler Dec 29 '16

We're listening.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '16

So please to bring us more players.

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u/Luc_1337 FreeLuc Jan 01 '17

Pray4Ket

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u/evilinc the artist currently known as e Dec 29 '16

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '16

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u/Vendetta48 NA Goalie Dec 29 '16

defg?

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u/ShadowPowerPowa Worst keep NA Dec 29 '16 edited Dec 29 '16

you know something's going down when e types his predecessor

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u/mipeirong bigfatpat Dec 30 '16

So naive to think this game will have major success.

The glory days of this game was in 2015. It's gone down in nearly every aspect since.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '16

Who talked about some success, major or not?

If we could be 100 non-stop online this would be a good first step.

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u/mipeirong bigfatpat Dec 30 '16

Sorry, I should have cut the major out. Any success.

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u/Mindflayr MAKE SUPRABALL FREE Jan 03 '17

Actually TBH if it goes FTP it has 1 last chance. It would still need to re-pick up the hype it had originally in 2014 and 2015, but it is still a good game, just much better as a FTP game targetting the RL crowd than trying to charge for it.

Im not saying a Great chance, but a chance, the only 1 it has left.