Blooming Business: Casino game price reduction
[h2]We have reduced the base price of the game![/h2]
Since we are back as publishers now for our game, we’ve decided to permanently decrease the price of the base game.
Dear players, Blooming Business: Casino was released over a year ago now! It’s been quite a journey to release a first game as a small indie dev studio, we’ve learned a ton and we’ve been trying to improve the experience as much as possible thanks to your feedback and our understanding of the Steam community expectations.
It has been quite a thinking process (to be honest ever since the development of the game!). At Homo Ludens, we think it is fairer to revise Blooming Business: Casino’s selling price and reduce it. It's very challenging to identify the correct price point for a game, taking into account the game content, development costs, Steam and publishers fees, and of course the current consumer purchasing power.
To sum it up, the game price will move from 24,99€ to 19,99€ (for France). We’ve of course revised all pricing for all countries to reflect this decision.
[h2]Happy Summer Sales![/h2]
We’re happy to have a more affordable game that will be even more affordable during the current sales. The game is at 50% off during the whole Summer Sales!
[h2]Buy? Wait for Sales? Never touch?[/h2]
What’s the deal with those mixed reviews?
Having a mixed review score on Steam had a huge impact on our sales and therefore what we could do to support the game. Seeing mixed reviews can prevent interested players from giving a chance (buying) to our game. We’ve tried from the beginning to respond to your feedback by working on the game and patching the game 7 times since the release. We’ve managed to practically come back to a positive review score, but we’re still lacking a few.
We would like to take this opportunity to respond to some of the most illustrative feedback we received and give you more insights on what we did to improve the game and why we have this score based on our understanding.
A hardcore sim or a cozy management game?
We’ve received a lot of reviews talking about the difficulty of the game and the fact that it’s too easy/ impossible to lose in the game. Indeed, we didn’t want to make a hardcore economic sim game. We wanted to offer a more relaxing and accessible tycoon. How you choose to be profitable, and specialize your casino to respond to the VIPs and client types expectations is yours to set, and there are a lot of different ways as you progress in the campaign. You can focus on building the most profitable business, a luxurious casino, or try to be an exemplary manager to name but a few examples.
We also chose to develop the narrative of the game with strong VIP characters, a lot of backstory. We put love and passion behind all the writing of the game, from the VIP personalities to the Client type specificities, to the campaign missions, and even the item description and level names! A lot of you appreciated it!
We understand that some of you would expect and prefer a more challenging simulation experience, and it has been one of our priorities to work on the game to address some of the feedback we received.
[h2]We're working on something new! Stay tuned![/h2]
Follow our social media to stay up to date!
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Since we are back as publishers now for our game, we’ve decided to permanently decrease the price of the base game.
Dear players, Blooming Business: Casino was released over a year ago now! It’s been quite a journey to release a first game as a small indie dev studio, we’ve learned a ton and we’ve been trying to improve the experience as much as possible thanks to your feedback and our understanding of the Steam community expectations.
It has been quite a thinking process (to be honest ever since the development of the game!). At Homo Ludens, we think it is fairer to revise Blooming Business: Casino’s selling price and reduce it. It's very challenging to identify the correct price point for a game, taking into account the game content, development costs, Steam and publishers fees, and of course the current consumer purchasing power.
To sum it up, the game price will move from 24,99€ to 19,99€ (for France). We’ve of course revised all pricing for all countries to reflect this decision.
[h2]Happy Summer Sales![/h2]
We’re happy to have a more affordable game that will be even more affordable during the current sales. The game is at 50% off during the whole Summer Sales!
[h2]Buy? Wait for Sales? Never touch?[/h2]
What’s the deal with those mixed reviews?
Having a mixed review score on Steam had a huge impact on our sales and therefore what we could do to support the game. Seeing mixed reviews can prevent interested players from giving a chance (buying) to our game. We’ve tried from the beginning to respond to your feedback by working on the game and patching the game 7 times since the release. We’ve managed to practically come back to a positive review score, but we’re still lacking a few.
We would like to take this opportunity to respond to some of the most illustrative feedback we received and give you more insights on what we did to improve the game and why we have this score based on our understanding.
A hardcore sim or a cozy management game?
We’ve received a lot of reviews talking about the difficulty of the game and the fact that it’s too easy/ impossible to lose in the game. Indeed, we didn’t want to make a hardcore economic sim game. We wanted to offer a more relaxing and accessible tycoon. How you choose to be profitable, and specialize your casino to respond to the VIPs and client types expectations is yours to set, and there are a lot of different ways as you progress in the campaign. You can focus on building the most profitable business, a luxurious casino, or try to be an exemplary manager to name but a few examples.
We also chose to develop the narrative of the game with strong VIP characters, a lot of backstory. We put love and passion behind all the writing of the game, from the VIP personalities to the Client type specificities, to the campaign missions, and even the item description and level names! A lot of you appreciated it!
We understand that some of you would expect and prefer a more challenging simulation experience, and it has been one of our priorities to work on the game to address some of the feedback we received.
- We’ve changed some aspects of the game. First, we worked a lot on the campaign’s mission-winning conditions, balancing, to make it more challenging. Throughout the 11 campaign missions’ levels, we’ve eased the mission flow clarity and adapted missions that were too easy or too difficult.
- Then, we increased the difficulty of the Sandbox difficult modes to have a more diverse experience when you choose the “Hardcore”.
- We’ve also added more failing conditions, you can now get a loan in Sandbox mode, and failing to repay it leads to a game over.
- Ultimately, we want you to remember Blooming Business: Casino is above all a relaxing management game. The demo is here to tell you if it's for you or not.
[h2]We're working on something new! Stay tuned![/h2]
Follow our social media to stay up to date!
🎲 Discord
🎲 X/ Twitter
🎲 TikTok