The Decline of Temtem: What's Driving Players Away? 

There is no point keep playing a game that has no future content, the animations are painfully slow, the training of temtems its unbelievable slow , new cosmetics its behind payment pass the game already is incredible expensive, anything fans ask they say its too hard or expensive... like new islands new tems, they say that take too long"for us to only play them for a few days", so basically crema is too small and poor and slow to make new content, pretending this was an mmorpg was probably the biggest mistake the battlepass was just a slap in the face

Remember when people said TemTem would be a big competitor for Pokemon? XD

They have to hard pivot for me to consider coming back. I backed a kickstarter for an mmo monster taming game. A "massively multiplayer" game is always changing and adding things so it felt kinda bait and switchy for them to say that there will be no more tems or islands. Then the microtransactions. I don't mind supporting a battle pass or buying cosmetics to support future development BUT like i said above, decided to not add anymore tems or islands. To me it feels wrong to charge a box price for a game then slam it with microtransactions only to not continue adding meaningful expansive content to it.

Crazy looking back at temtem after palworld came out. Like what happened

PALWORLD

For my part, I also think Temtem can be hard to pick back up after an extended break. I fired it up recently and found myself going: "What was I doing again? Why did I pick this team..." It didnt take me long to lose interest and fire up something else instead.

I give this game another year before they announce EOS. The games been out for nearly 4 years and we’re still facing the same problems we were on day 1. This game has no content once you beat the story. They’re not gonna change on a whim and start listening to their playerbase. This game had so much potential, and is better than Pokémon in alot of ways. They let the opportunity slip

For me, Temtem just kind of missed out on its insane potential. I'd always loved Pokemon games, but more recent entries had me feeling bored with lack of innovation. I joined during a peak month in Temtem's early access, following hype around videos showcasing a new and unique MMORPG style of creature collecting game where the world is full of live players and more things to do. But, Temtem devs basically saying "hey guys, all significant development is over - but we'll still sell you $20 mounts" within the first year of the game's release feels like they just killed their own creation. When players run out of stuff to do in an MMO, they leave. And, when you have an MMO that drops from tens of thousands of players to a mere few hundred, it leaves the world feeling empty and purposeless. I hope someone else in the future can take this type of concept and execute it in a way that cultivates long-term investment from its larger community, rather than just doing bare minimum to maintain a small cult following, because I really thought this was going to be a serious Pokemon competitor in its hayday.

Honestly I didn't drop Temtem bc of the lack of postgame content but because of the challenge of teambuilding for the Archtamers. It was fun but at one point, it got too technical for me. So I had a small break of the game. Although, I don't feel as excited as I was previously in finishing what I started 😕

Nerfing tems by taking away moves killed it for me. My favorite duo was Oceara and the poison bird but they killed that by taking away icy wind and I think water blade

Complicated multiplayer end-game, not enough tems.

There needs to be an offline mode. I have flimsy internet and there have been days I couldn't play despite having the day off which stunk. I went on a family vacation and the hotel wifi wouldn't work, had to use my phone hotspot. Also like you said, they focus too much on the PVP players. I had good Tems that got nerfed or had abilities taken away that were good for FreeTem, the system that allows catch and release. Not to mention as someone who had played since launch there has been a lot of Temtem Twitch streamers quitting. I subbed to a few that got burned out or moved on to a different game which stings. Pokemon has so much to offer after the story is done. Many creators can make content for days. Also the modding community is insane. Anyone trying to mod Temtem gets banned. I still play. Sunk cost fallacy at work but I enjoy the game. I just wish some things were improved.

There are a couple things that you left out that are still worth mentioning: The Devs have said that the game is done at this point. No more new Islands and, unheard of for Monster Taming games, no more new TemTem in the future. With the Devs essentially being "done" with the game aside from monetizing cosmetics, there is little to no reason for players to truly stick around and/or come back. I do not see what kind of Update Crema could pull to turn this around, but the way they have been working on, it will take a couple months to actually get here. Maybe they will take a page out of Pokemons book and just release TemTem 2 a couple years in the future instead of supporting TemTem further than this. But at that point, I doubt people will still have trust in Crema as a company to go along with that again.

It being an MMORPG with internet requirement is what has kept me from buying it, moreover I've heard the game is grindy and, I won't be hypocrite with it, I dont really mind if there isn't much to do after the main story, at least a little post game quest like in your regular Pokémon game and that's it for me but them not caring and treating it like a free-to-play game.

I believe the fact that they said they won't release any expansion with new stories and new temtem has driven a lot of players away. They finished the story, and there's nothing else to do and no prospect of new stuff in the future...

Crema severely overestimated the average skill level of monster collector game players and what those players focus on. The vast majority of players are not interested in PvP or anything simulating pvp enough so that they are faced with just how unprepared they are. The game should have had a far more robust roster and a metric crapton more PvE with a focus on making sure they understood the average player skill level is quite low. PvP is challenging and fun for those who put the work in to get good at it but that has always been a minority of the player base for these type of games yet the most visible in terms of content creation. I say this as a player who beat Gen X in Kisiwa my first playthrough not realizing it was designed to make you lose the battle. It was the first point of the game I finally felt challenged. Most players lost multiple times in their journey way before that encounter and beg for help with the last two encounters. Sadly the game needs to be easier and a bigger focus on content for collectors and pve. More people are obsessive collectors than they are obsessive competitive battlers.

They also do not listen to most of the feedback the community is giving them. For example a lot of players have asked for an option to skip battle animations (turn on or off in settings) Seems like an obvious QoL improvement because the animations can really drag out a battle too long after a while. But the devs are so stuck up in their own asses and dont really care. Their respond was: We worked hard on the battle animations and we don't want to ruin the game economy. Because faster battles means you'd have to grind less, but why is that a bad thing? They just want us to unnecessary grind longer, and to me that sounds like they dont respect the players time. I do not appreciate that. And decisions like this is what drives players away eventually.

Making this game an mmo was probably the wrong idea, especially how they decided to do it. It would have worked better as a 2 player adding to its double battle theme with a multiplayer online service with trading and battling. There is no real point to see everyone, honestly.

For me it was the endless changes to moves on temtem to try and balance PvP. Every time I built a team they removed random attacks and I had to remake a team and level grinding and TV training is just not fun gameplay. The endgame feels way more grindy then it is fun.

They became the very thing they swore to destroy, and so whats the point now when that thing still exists.

The fucking leveling. I hate the leveling. I catch a small FUCKING TURTLE AT LEVEL 47 AND I HAVE TO LEVEL IT UP TO 60 FOR ITS 1ST EVO BUT I CATCH IT AT LEVEL 5 AND SUDDENLY IT REACHES MAX AT FUCKING 45. MAKE THE GAME MAKE SENSE

I understand the issues with this game. But I was wondering is it still worth picking up or pass on?

I wish they had a NG+ feature for the campaign where everything is scaled to max level and could be quite a fun playthrough. The pvp got annoying very fast for me and friends because It was constant Tem swapping and that bored us to death, and the constant balancing changes that would make some Tem useless. The PvE side of things after my 3rd Luma and breeding many perfect Tems I felt I accomplished enough and dropped it. If my friends had kept playing or had I met a decent guild I might have kept grinding. But solo it was had become very little fun and reward to time ratio. No future updates or expansion planned either so nothing to prep for or be ready to tackle.

Mmo is dead unless u roleplaying

Honestly to me I love shiny hunting in games and this one really sucks at making that aspect fun coromon did it best imo

Another factor is the grind. And paid news articles and the battle pass and it won’t bounce back

This should have been an offline game with the option to go MMO. There really isn't a reason to lock people online all the time. Just have a software check when you take it online to prevent hacked/modded tems and such. Also i hadnt heard till i looked through the comments but im really shocked they made it sound like this was the end of tem tem with no new tems or locations. If they really wanted to go mmo, I don't see why they couldn't just keep giving us new islands with a handful of tems every 6 months to a year. That feed of new content is what keeps people engaged. I mean look at pokemon games, they pretty much follow the same play pattern, game drops, huge player count, as time goes on player count falls off the cliff down to the grinders and battlers. There's nothing wrong with that but pokemon doesn't claim to be an MMO either. I hope the devs reevaluate/ change their plans for the future of tem tem because i think this could have been a really solid alternative to pokemon and would have also made pokemon better simply by being competition.

The game is currently sitting under a 1000 player count and steadily dropping! I wouldn't doubt it if this game will have to shut its services down sometime.

That and you can only play online im sorry if that's upsets ppl to say but there should be a option for it instead of it kicking ppl out of the game when server is bad

Lack of new PvE content is the main reason. When I'm done with the achievements I'm done. I don't care for PvP or Luma hunting so post game is nothing for me. Only reason I'm still playing is so I can finish up the achievements.

played 500hrs on this game.. my only problem is the dailies, weeklies and battle pass quest are grindy as hell. It feels like im working instead of having fun playing.

TemTem should have been a single-player game.

It's ugly, woke, and I'd rather play Palworld.

I don't like that they focus so hard on pvp I wished they added rematch old npcs and a offline mode. I fear that when this whale goes belly up I would lose the temtem that I grinded for. Also I wish they had more passive content as the only passive content is breeding. It was the only time I didn't need to put a input.

Yea I was on the fence with this game from the beginning because I loved monster taming games but it was just something that was off about it, I just don't know what it was

Came back from the Palworld hype; wanted to keep the monster collecting going // why did they make the game harder? Harder to make money, harder to breed context; when I MMO even FFXIV, I solo anything I can, I do not push content, I just want to experience

I just hate that you needed a perfectionist's mindset for the story. Postgame makes sense because games similar to this give you acess to what you need when you're in that point of the game (yes you do have acess to items that help you with this early on in temtem but the trainers don't give you nearly enough to get them efficiently). Because of this I was DREADING progressing through the story in a pokémon clone. That shouldn't be a thing, EVER. But I still beat the story just to see what postgame had, and it was just shitty PvE with perfect ai that predicted your every move.

Im on the end of innocences and i don't know how people even beat that tournament.

tem tem need like dlc i dont mind paying for a polished dlc with no new mons but with fun pve stuff and areas to explore and new lore.

Palworld nail thr coffin 😂😂😂😂😂

With all due respect to TemTem It was never gonna beat pokemon like many said. But Pokemon like it or hate it has unique and interesting creature design and not just that- but pokemon has plenty character designs of many ages that can reflect the players, that people like to draw, talk about etc. Temtem doesn't have that same sway in either category. The monster design isn't that iconic or great and the human characters also don't seem that interesting or fleshed out. It shows too by the lack of fanart and word of mouth you see around. People to this day are still talking about Cynthia Steven stone, Gary Oak and the latter has so many characters & mons that aren't as interesting or remember able.

it started barely after the EA version was made available, back than they lost a lot of people by banning in droves people if the feedback was not only positive and by their standards, they argued that they were ok with criticism with proper argument, yet every of those got banned (like me) since the message i got from leaving criticism for what was wrong and how to improve was deem "Disrespectful to the Devs" LOL WUTT? Than the months of excuses why the economy ingame was so terrible and the answer was always "oh, the game is not finished yet and they're working on more important things", than we found out that not only they shoved up premium currency and a bucket of salt on top of the wound with "battle pass" bs. And many more things made a game that could be a new pokemon(killer) into a steadily dying game where the devs are toxic towards anyone that don't shower them with praise. Oh also the bans without appeal if people got afk for few minutes (grabbing snacks, a drink, wc bussiness) BAAAAAAAM, BANNED. Excuse "using bots to exploit" anyone afk for minutes for them was seem as bots, when people contacted them and even shown prove the answer show cheer arrogance "you know what you did" and thats it, blocked even from the game support.... GG

I would say the biggest killer, is the horrible economy and how bad it is to make money

I started playing around 6 months ago, and I didn't finnish it. To me, it got too close to pokémon, making many of the same mistakes... it feels too childish, dummie, unrealistic, restrictive, limited in it's approach. Like pokémon. It doesn't feel as a fresh take on the genre of collectible monsters. Monster sanctuary or palword do feel like fresh takes. Temtem feels predictable and samey. Uninspired is the right comment I'd say. Not bad, not terrible. Just... it doesn't do enough. The pokémon killer can't be just pokémon. It has to one up pokémon, and Temtem only does it in aspects that pokémon users don't really care. And don't get it wrong, that's the public it's trying to get: Pokémon players.

I have just come back to see what's new. There isnt much, I've just finished the new raid, and I never ever PVP. I spend my time much better in Warcraft, which the endgame has been happening since day one. Comparing end game design, WoW let me do dungeons everyday trying to pursue a higher difficulty and hard PVE achievements, I can transmog farm, mount farm, reputation grind, news maps launched and there's the "battlepass" farming, which is easy and fast, differente from Temtem that cant even do that because battlepass is all the game has to offer in the endgame. Hard to compare since it's microsoft's now, and both them and blizzard are well stablished and big companies, but one should learn from the best. Sad to log in to see there's nothing new for me to do.

If the pay-to-play aspect was cut down to a bare minimum (or none considering how much support they got from funding), and competitive wasn’t such a chore due to fertility, I'd still play until the story was done. Offline mode will always remain the hopium that'll never be. However, the two other aspects could've helped their player base stick around a little longer.

Ive actually just recently gotten into temtem. Overall, really enjoyable game

Honestly I just completely forgot about it

I will say this I feel like the market place made desire to catch them all really bad especially since u get it mid game and the who sell temtem feature made money farming easy and I bought the original on switch and downloaded the battler on steam and yes this is my first mmo it still didn't feel like pokemon or even digimon The main thing there was lil mini games or side games in the game and there was just battles but even if it was there wasn't multiple side stuff and I stopped at the digital gym because it was not great

I loved TemTem when it came out. I beat the game (more like grinded through it in hindsight), then like you said end game content is super boring

I actually loved this game, i started to quit when i put 150 hours into a Luma hunt and never found one.. + i started Playing deceive inc at the time

Do you mean monster hunter stories? Because Monster hunter rose is an action hunting game while stories is a monster collector and battler game.

I bought the physical version for the switch and it is unplayable. 😭 The loading times when you get an encounter take ages, and I was looking forward to hunt for lumas… I really regret buying the game. I updated it, then saw it may run better on the system memory so I did that… but nothing helps!! It’s so painfully slow…

Welp I sense an offline update soon if they can't keep up with servers cost. Which honestly I wouldn't mind. My wifi is good enough to download games I just can't reliably play on it.

I've dropped in the middle of the story, I barely finished, It was not up to my expectations the game. It's fun, but the problem is that It doesn't catch the magic that Pokémon and Digimon have for me, so yeah, Pokémon always comes unfinished, but It doesn't have some monster taming with soul enough to face it, unfortunately. I was happy when Yokai Watch was an rival for Pokémon, but It didn't take too much time to Pokémon become the undefeatable leader again.

Man, I remember when people were championing tem tem and saying that this was going to be a wake up call to the Pokémon company and gamefreak. And how tem tem was better than Pokémon. You know, like people are also saying for palworld right now these few days. Or like tem tem was going to be a Pokémon killer. Or that tem tem was going to be a competitor to Pokemon. Couple years later, now I don’t really hear as much as about tem tem like I did in 2020. All I did them years ago when people were saying that was to just shake my head.

I don't play this game, but I think the human characters are ugly. It needs a new art style for the humans, something that would attract children imo.

Monster hunter rise is not in this genre

For me, I bought TemTem like a bit after it came out and as I understand early access games would have some issues, I was okay and was willing to deal with that. Then I booted up the game and couldn't even get into the start menu. Literally stuck at "press start" screen and gave up. There is buggy and then there is just sheer incompetence.

im having fun ngl but i am of the opinion nexomon is superior XD

Answer is simple, grinding comp isn't for everyone. The game doesn't have enough content to keep non pvp players.

I just bought this game did I waste my money 🤦

Get woke go broke!

Needs more monster💯💯 take to long to lvl up monsters on this.... other then that I'm playing more then pokemon scarlet

My problem was i got the game and 60% of the players i ran into had racist usernames

temtem might have just killed their game with the drama that happend today with their twitter account

How did you know about temtem in 9/11

Today more people play temtem

Love: I love the art style. I love the idea of Temtem. I love that they went 2v2 Hate: I hate the execution and that they developed their game around competive PvP-Paul. I hate that there is no battle RNG, it makes it boring and takes the thrill away from battles. I hate that there is no permanent status effects. I hate the breeding system is so limited when i played it. I hate the stamina system with a passion.