• @darthelmet@lemmy.world
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    1802 years ago

    It’s crazy how successful they’ve been off just making and selling a good indie game. They’re still doing free updates AND they can afford a $200k donation?

    • @funnystuff97@lemmy.world
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      1502 years ago

      Terraria is like the anti-modern game. They absolutely refuse to evilly monetize their game at all. The playerbase is almost on their knees, begging them to move on from Terraria and make something else (not because Terraria is bad, but they’ve been at it for over a decade!) and they continue to churn out updates. The fanbase voted for a set of features to appear in Terraria 2, which they then turned around and scrapped, and added it as an update to Terraria. And all their updates are always free. And can’t forget about their amazing mod support.

      And redigit is just, like, the man.

    • @PM_ME_FEET_PICS@sh.itjust.works
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      452 years ago

      They came out around peak indie craze, 14 or so years ago. I believe they were just behind Minecraft in terms of success. Total lifetime sales for their game have it outselling Skyrim.

    • @chic_luke@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      It’s time to dust off Terraria and go on a nice run again.

      Edit: I will, of course, be first in line to buy any new games they release. They donated $100k to a FOSS project I use and love, thus to me as well indirectly, I can give some of my disposable income back to then.

      • @cjsolx@lemmy.world
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        172 years ago

        Out of curiosity can you define “no boring intrusive story”? Because personally I’m big on storylines, so if they nail that part then that takes the game to a whole other level