Hypocrisy of S&box players

Hi everyone! I’m a fairly new player in S&box. You might not see me online much because I spend more time developing games than actually playing them.

I’ve noticed how the community has been going crazy over the new “cool game” Megashot. Honestly, it’s surprising to see people upset that it’s ranked #1 in popular and claiming it doesn’t deserve to be there because of “bots” and the reward system.

But S&box is, first and foremost, a platform for bringing ideas to life, no matter what those ideas are. And the fact that someone figured out how to significantly improve player retention is more inspiring than frustrating.

Just look at Roblox, there are way more ideas like this there and no one really complains. But in S&box, one project like this appears and suddenly there’s a wave of negativity.

I hope this situation will actually attract more players and creators to the game in the near future.

Всем привет! Я довольно новый игрок в S&box. Вы можете не видеть меня онлайн, потому что я больше занимаюсь разработкой игр, чем самим игровым процессом.

Я заметил, как сообщество активно обсуждает новую «крутую игру» Megashot. Честно говоря, странно видеть, как люди возмущаются тем, что она занимает первое место в популярных и утверждают, что она этого не заслуживает из-за «ботов» и системы наград.

Но S&box в первую очередь это платформа для реализации идей, какими бы они ни были. И тот факт, что кто-то смог так сильно повысить удержание игроков, скорее вдохновляет, чем раздражает.

Если посмотреть на Roblox, там подобных идей в разы больше и это воспринимается как норма. А в S&box появился один такой проект, и сразу началась волна негатива.

Надеюсь, что эта ситуация наоборот привлечёт больше игроков и разработчиков в игру.

ok that's funny

roblox has absolute horrid monetization practices and predatory systems, with awful developer payouts

me when I lie

I think you’re kinda missing the point here.

The playfund is fixed, it doesn’t scale with player count. So when one game pulls a massive amount of playtime, it’s literally taking money from other devs. And Megashot is clearly built around that idea, it’s about sucking as much as possible from the playfund.

And their growth isn't natural. There’s Telegram funnels, botting, skin rewards after 7 days… before all of that I remember that the game was barely played. On top of that, every map is instanced and on the playfund, so it’s not even “one game” taking from the playfund, it’s multiple instances stacking the gains.

And yeah, that has real consequences. That money comes straight from other devs who are actually trying to make good, fair and fun games. So the question isn’t “why are people mad”, it’s more like: why would anyone keep making games for the S&box platform if you’re competing with bots and unfair shit like this ?

Thank you for your insightful feedback. While other developers are focusing on others' successes instead of creating their own games, our players, many of whom are English speakers, are receiving their first guaranteed skins and are very happy about it.

Instead of focusing on us, think about how to attract an audience to your future game, not just how to create a game. This is much more important for your game project to survive and thrive.

Thank you again to the creator for the kind words.

make better game then megaslop, steal their money instead

 "our players, many of whom are English speakers"
in both screenshots above from recipients it says "<username> offered you a trade" in russian hmmmm makes zero sense tbh
and funny enough username of the first one is dedmoroz02(ded moroz is figure similar to Santa Claus but slavic)
but in different thread he says "Our game has a Russian-speaking community that plays whenever they can. People need to sleep at night, so few people stay in the game." mhm

indeed, it is hard to compete with games who pay their players to pay, since a lot of people are dissuaded by earning $2 for playing a game for a week

English version:
Thanks, Sousou, I didn’t know the game fund was fixed, and now that’s actually pretty sad. But I think this will motivate developers to keep improving their own games, because before, popular games on the platform were earning money constantly and passively, and now this new game came in and is basically taking part of their earnings.

I think S&box works like a market: players go where they’re offered more.

And yeah, thanks, greek gangster 47. I think I’ll actually release my game by the first, haha.

Русская версия:
Спасибо, Sousou, я не знал, что игровой фонд фиксирован, и теперь это реально грустно. Но думаю, это замотивирует разработчиков развивать свои игры, потому что раньше популярные игры на платформе получали деньги постоянно и пассивно, а теперь появилась эта игра и, по сути, забирает часть их заработка.

Я считаю, что S&box работает как рынок: игроки идут туда, где им предлагают больше.

И да, спасибо, greek gangster 47. Думаю, до первого числа я действительно выпущу свою игру, ха-ха.

Okay. Let's make this a market..
A new clicker game where you can get S&box items per 3 days of play!

(Actual people/players play what they want- > For the longest time the most popular game was DXrp because people played it without being paid to.)

It seems that peoples tastes changed in a week. From an RP game that was on the top for the past.. year to a game that rewards you to play it. 

Oh I will not even mention that there are people using multiple accounts to get as much skins from that game.
(From what we think the system rewards having alot of players play like a few hours and then just drops off the rewards) 

Megash*t is purely bots, no one cares about playing for a week for a $2 punk helmet. It's a good cover though but I think most people can see through the 💩