A lot of wise decisions here by Nate. His thought process wasn’t geared towards gimmicky mindless monetizations; he truly considered his audience in a more nuanced ways. By doing this he was able to secure revenue that can sustain itself over time.
As someone who first played his game when it had 200K visits, I was very impressed to see the rapid growth, and I wondered how the game was made so quickly and grew so quickly. I very much appreciate this look into how it all happened. I wish this best for this game, it has soul put into it.
While they might have a negative reputation in the past for over-monetization, they did say that the same strategy would not best suit Fisch.
It’s important to realise that because of the sale, the creator now has the freedom to live (because developing/managing a game this large would take a considerable amount of hours each day) and to develop other games on Roblox. That freedom is insanely valuable for anyone - especially young (and… well, wealthy!) people.
Sometimes you need to see things from the creator’s POV rather than just a player POV. The creator made the right choice for their personal needs/wants and you should respect that.
Kind of amazing that 1 guy made all of this in only four months. It gives me motivation to work on my own game more, and with more confidence, especially since I am a solo developer.
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That’s what he recommends, not what Roblox recommends.
His game saved my friend and me from quitting roblox to play on steam cuz we didn’t have anything that feels fun or quite relaxing in past months,…,.,.,.,…,
even though I’m more of a PVE fans, this is still a game that i lov to play with others but not usually a game that i play
Didn’t he figure this out after the name was chosen?
Cool but there definitely IS a best rod for each category (duh there can’t be a definitive one if each serves a different purpose), and these are tested. ROTD with a ton of rapid catcher baits will basically cover everything for you. Wormhole for extra bestiary, and abyssal for C$.
While progressing in-game, there is a definitive order you go to, you basically can’t go any other way. Default → Steady → Aurora → A few server hops and Isonade farms → Endgame (trident rod, ROTD)
brine pool + aurora totem room if it counts
drowned whirlpool in vertigo?
vertigo itself
Terrapin’s rain totem?
Desolate itself could be considered one, as you’re most likely to come across it on accident without pointers.
6.literally the ROTD maze
There are multiple hidden locations, what are you referring to? (spoiler it)
Depths isn’t really secret as once you get to Vertigo there’s literally a npc that tells you how to get there.
If Woozy is somehow reading through this, I left some issues and personal issues I have with the game (and also suggestions) in one of the previous feedback topics in hopes they get prioritized as these are making me not want to even play the game. (for instance, my inventory changing everytime I rejoin or die)
Its a great game. Goes to show that sometimes it can take years to make a hit game - which this is proof of. Great mechanics, gameplay and community, fisch is really a game changer.
My ghost is fixed, and I can see rarities without hovering over them (if I put an inventory item into my backpack after it doesn’t sort automatically), I can finally play without switching rods every 5 seconds due to accidental unequips!
Fishing itself is gambling in real life, but for survival. You literally can wait for hours to get nothing, and get atleast something, or get something that will feed you for a week up. SO. They even have the same UGC as SOLS RNG if thats up to the point. People are just too blind sometimes to see that its just another gambling game clothed into something.
yeah im not buying this post. it just highlights that clout chasing is good because, oh whats that? fishing games on steam have been picking up speed recently? damn thats crazy and probably totally unrelated.
On a brighter side, at the very least it’s not littered with micro-transactions and thats a good thing.
Hopefully more devs follow suit of not just quantitative money-draining nonsense.
There’s also a starter pack with an exclusive boat meaning if you started the game before it got added, you can’t even purchase that boat because it’s for starters lol.
Theres literally UGS called eat fisch game repeat. 
so yeah theres even the fisch bar ugc that mimics SOLS RNG ugc.
