I uncovered the solution to Illuvium's problem | The Viral Moment

[@martinchatelier1351]

100%, priority number 1, have a completely free "Battle Royal" mode where you have to loot a weapon, drones and shards and capture one or more illuvials with your team with the aim of beating other players during the game using the synergies of your illuvials. Players could be dropped from a ship, and the obelisk could be used to drop rare items, etc. It's all there, and it all sounds so obvious when you see what Illuvium has created (maps, movement mechanics, weapons, creatures...) And the team that finishes top 1 could earn fuel, shards to go into overworld...

[@Scoriox]

Yeah I said this exact thing on The Download and Rundown over the past 24 hours. Couldn't agree more

[@gg05irgm]

The grind really for illuvium is now to make content and gameplay, make the game accessible and try to prevent its pure p2w nature from destroying it. Sometimes in my head i think that overworld is basically just a beta for what a true illuvium openworld mmo could be, but that would be soo far away that its not even worth talking about. More important to first survive and then to start building up from there.

[@Scoriox]

Absolutely right gg

[@travishaines7410]

Your all over it scoriox, 100% agree. My son and I have been playing all week together and he keeps saying I wish we could run around together like in cod or diablo. Also I see you as part of the illuvium team and I'm pretty sure they do to, you been doing and awesome job over the years as I've been watching 🤘

[@Scoriox]

Thanks heaps Travis I really appreciate the kind words

[@paulespinas1205]

I think simple: follow mobile legends model. Increase the number of illuvials. Unlock a basic set available to everyone to start competing on arena. Lock premium illuvials

[@Baker15ww]

I like this idea and heard you on Nijafe’s Rundown. A Hunger Games style BR where you bring 2 Illuvials and a weapon, then it’s on you to collect everything else. You can go off and catch or pester other Rangers preventing them from catching until it’s time to meet back at the obelisk to battle in arena

[@Scoriox]

Hahaha yeah doesn't even have to be an autobattle at the end, but Illuvials going crazy in the overworld is undeniably exciting

[@cryptoozblue4227]

I agree with you on this. I would really love to see 10 players battling each other, each with their Illuvials by their side.

[@Scoriox]

If its easy to pick up and play, it would be an immediate smash hit

[@grownwithme9330]

The good games always bring friends together. strangely not many game dev notice that

[@GroenteNL]

Great theory, illuvium needs more memes!! Today i saw Shadybunny (and~1k twitch viewes) will play illuvium. If hype is what illuvium needs, we will see!

[@silverbushman]

I like your ideas on point to give more open play 100% skill building

[@Crypt0k1ng96]

You just described the exact vision I have for this game! Hopefully the community can push for those elements and this game will crush it :D

[@siddhartha-1-4-u]

and need an album to see and show illuvials, like they have with illuvitars

[@conwaybelleroseblais469]

I love games and I tried every single game almost so I just downloaded illuvium I will try it

[@hornejoe]

I know it’s not important but I reckon holiday events would be cool and drive up the income for those say two weeks they were around, during the event all the illuvials would change with the theme, can be as simple as changing the nfts background are something bigger where fighters bash with candy canes, empaths have witches hat open stuff like that

[@kevindeclerck672]

The main problem is like you said having to pay for every run and also it sucks that you have to return to sanctum messa, go to the forge and then go back in imo. If you want to go for a grind you want to keep in the grind. But it does get boring fast tho, expected more from the game lore and mission wise to make it more engaging

[@CryptoGrit]

Tbh, i watched few people on twitch playing Illuvium for the first time, and all of them had the same impression as me, its very difficult to learn, and so many things aren't intuitive enough in comparison to the games that actually go mainstream. I would not agree that retention rate is good, since as a web3 game, you really wanna have web3 gamers to keep playing the game, and maybe it looks good as a retention rate for a web2 player, but as a web3 you should actually have higher retention... since both of these 2 streamers stopped playing and I am not sure if i should invest 100 hours more into watching tutorials or just stop :/ Like i feel that i need someone sitting next to me for the first few hours to answer all my questions in order to go to the right direction

[@Scoriox]

It has many problems. Statistically retention is extremely high. Most games dont have beyond 10% retention even for the top tier games, but I am purely talking about the launch of a title, Palworld is a good example. We will see how Illuvium does long term

[@CryptoGrit]

@@Scorioxyes but you cant compare the game with the highest amount of players in the world with the game, that is still early. I am pretty sure that having a clear mission and direction is a problem for new players since i watched 2 other streamers experiencing the same thing and feeling in the same way as i did when they played it first time

[@robertwells3797]

I played this game for two days saw I played nearly everything and then saw needed like $10 per session to play = uninstall

[@gogumunteanu9925]

Agree, when they will put GUNS in the hands of Illuvials will completly change the game and maybe an army of Rangers too to accompany the Illuvials in an open world. They can do like Rust with SAFE ZONES or Bases builders etc but they could change it for sure and from now on it’s much easier What I mean, to became VIRAL, it’s not in naf to be just a colector, players want a bust of adrenaline, not necessarily losing assets but something spectacular that JUST SURPASSES THE EXPECTATIONS When I showed the ham to my son and couple of his 16-20 years old friends, they’ve told me it’s NICE BUT BORING

[@stepper8584]

My honest opinion, after being a huge Illuvium fan from early 2021 who is currently NOT playing at all is in short: It's not a accessible game at all and Arena is way too complex. It's only for " true nerds" and has too much complexity and learning curve to ever go mainstream. Sure there have been very complex "nerd games" (both offline and online) that went viral but very, very few! Then Zero is fun for as long as it takes you to build your base and then... It's just a daily clicker... And it's not better than many free mobile games. Overworld was and is too ambitious... To me it doesn't have the "Wow" factor nor does it have all the fun RPG elements.. I think they tried way too much at once and ended up making it all "decent" but decent will never go viral. To end on a positive note: The graphic design of everything is ABSOLUTELY STUNNING! I also LOVEEE the music and the Illuvials themself! Oh my gosh the Illuvials are stunning, funny, cute, awesome. In short, my opinion is: It has everything to go viral except for fun gameplay.... Which is a critical miss for a... game...

[@allanment]

yeah i agree with you.

[@Scoriox]

Basically summed up my video hahaha yeah. It doesn't have the super fun replayable elements yet

[@auer5638]

I think almost everything in here is on point and espacially this Post. I also think that they missed to come out on lounch day with a big bang. From now on the focus should be to make overworld the flagship with what the Catch people. And also in the positive site for me what they have build so far is very good with a few Bugs but almost perfect but unfortantly not for Mainstream. When i heard and saw overworld at the 1st time i thought it will have everything what palworld had

[@mikus2512]

Part of the problem, I tried to get my brothers involved but the game doesn't run on their limited systems. I think one of them would love it but he's not going to buy a gaming PC just for this because he already has a ps5.

[@ronat1704]

I totally agree with some of you i Enjoyed playing all the betas. But on release i lost 100 dollars trying to get money into imx. To much pain and agony trying to get money in there. Not only that at about 10 bucks a run. No thanks. Im not looking to invest that much money to capture all alluvials. No telling how much that would cost. I could see couple bucks or so. But i really feel the high cost will kill the game.

[@peterweaver7596]

how would multiplayer be fair if you have cashed up whales with the best of the best in illuvials, weapons and armour beating up on a new player starting out with nothing say a dark holo spawns in who do you think is getting it first?

[@JustDatBoi]

@@peterweaver7596 that’s the issue in many p2w games.

[@classicdevikin]

How is the economy in Illuvium?

[@dannysmithers4845]

The biggest problem I have with Illuvium is how expensive it is, You can very very easily spend hundreds of dollars a month, but lets just say for the sake of the argument that you spend $100+ a month playing the game. I would never spend $100 a month on any game, imagine instead of $15 a month subscription for World of Warcraft it is now $100 per month to play WoW. Thats insanity. as for the "earning" part of Illuvium, the Illuvials are worth like 1 penny to like 50 cents each unless you get lucky enough to find a rare one otherwise they aint even worth capturing to sell on the marketplace. Having said that, I'm still invested and staking Illuvium tokens for Rev Distribution, hopefully that goes well when some of these issues are fixed by the team. Only time will tell.

[@marcmyers3034]

can you even sell fuel like is this doomed or what?

[@webapple1]

if you look on youtube , 1.9m views for the game play trailer 2 years ago, look a month ago at the release trailer...67k views..... they lost steam , were so slow to market , lost a whole lot of interest. Currently 1 streamer on twitch with 7 viewers... i mean....

[@MANUMANU-jq6pb]

There is no use for the illuviums. This is in my o the biggest problem.

[@osueboy]

Is just a bad game, i downloaded hay to go through a 20 min tutorial, then when i had to chase a thing i uninstalled because action game is not what i want to play

[@Scoriox]

Action game is not what you wanted to play? What do you mean?

[@dooplisspk9006]

@@Scoriox It's a bad game because he didn't want to play it. Minecraft is a very bad game, because I couldn't have romantic relationships like in the sims. Sound like that

[@osueboy]

@@Scoriox if u look at creature collector games, none of them are 3rd person shooters, the tutorial makes you chase and aim at a random temtem or whatever, pokemon i didnt like the game play, is not for me, if you think my opinion is irrelevant is fine, but is not a really good game and i personally will not spend my money on it