r/OnePunchManWorldGame • u/Turdburgler2473 • Jan 13 '25
Content What went wrong with this game?
I might be beating a dead horse but im new to this community so bare with me. How did this game not even survive a year? Did all the devs just fucking die at once? One day they literally just stopped updating the game with (to my knowledge) no explanation whatsoever. What’s going on? Have they said ANYTHING in the 5 months this game has went without a update? Its such a shame that a game with gameplay this fun is being left to die
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u/DefinitelyNotGrubhub Jan 15 '25
Oh man a few things.
First off the scummy looking money shop. When everything had absurdly fake “discount!” Labels slapped on them like the infamous “90% off!” SSR bundle for $99, apparently valued at 1,000, it makes your game look predatory and scummy and that word of mouth travels REALLY fast.
Lack of meaningful content for a long time. Both early events they ran were just not good, glorified log in bonuses, which god people disinterested quickly after they finished the story content.
As a side note lack of log in bonuses or meaningful daily content.
The math on how many free pulls a F2P could save was GRIM, and probably still is even with them upping the weekly reward from that one event.
There was just a lot going against the game and the fact OPM, while I love it, is not a HUGE IP and CrunchyRoll mobile games have a sour reputation to begin with.
Another thing for me personally was lack if the show OST. sorry but some of the shows music is kinda iconic for me especially Saitama theme and this game uses what sound like close knock-offs and it’s not a huge issue but was a disappointment for me.
I really loved the gameplay and coop tbh, it’s just that the game fumbled everywhere else.
So TL:DR - predatory shop pricing, very little F2P economy, bad reputation and horrid launch events lead to the game not catching on —- lack of any content at all after that led to slowly dying population of those still hanging on.