Recettear

[x5ga]

The best game on steam.  I would recommended purchasing it to support the developers, torrents kill indie game developers

I dunno, if i recall correctly, theyve sold over 200,000 copies or something...?
Anyhow, i bought it anyways, finished the game (twice), lvl 39, and now trying to get 100% everything?
I wonder how long it will take...

Of course not the company itself, but the localization.

"One month to the day after Carpe Fulgur started taking pre-orders for the game (eighteen days after release), they announced in a news post on their website, that they had sold 26,000 copies of the game"

That's a lot considering that MangaGamer probably sells about 2000 copies of a title a year, if I heard correctly. Recettear is pure awesomeness. I'm gonna go play now 'till I collapse from malnutrition. Screw classes@uni, I've got an item shop to run. Capitalism, ho!

[tomoya-kun]

The best game on steam.  I would recommended purchasing it to support the developers, torrents kill indie game developers

I dunno, if i recall correctly, theyve sold over 200,000 copies or something...?
Anyhow, i bought it anyways, finished the game (twice), lvl 39, and now trying to get 100% everything?
I wonder how long it will take...

Of course not the company itself, but the localization.

"One month to the day after Carpe Fulgur started taking pre-orders for the game (eighteen days after release), they announced in a news post on their website, that they had sold 26,000 copies of the game"

That's a lot considering that MangaGamer probably sells about 2000 copies of a title a year, if I heard correctly. Recettear is pure awesomeness. I'm gonna go play now 'till I collapse from malnutrition. Screw classes@uni, I've got an item shop to run. Capitalism, ho!

Don't forget adventuring!

[donald1]

there's tons of good stuff about the game in the Recettear forum http://www.carpefulgur.com/forum/index.php?board=3.100

i finally unlocked Nagi, it took a lot of not selling anything so i can go adveturing and talking to people around town. Nagi, imo, is the cutest one in the game. i didnt get to sell much to her yet, just a watermelon. i'll make customer of her yet.

i got the fourth dungeon too. i read its got 100 floors! thats going to be fun. i cant wait to do a boss rush with all of them.

[BrownMasterV]

Just thought I'd tell everyone who hasn't bought this game yet that Steam is having a Thanksgiving sale, and today's (only for today) sale has Recettear in a pack with 4 other indie games going for $5!

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/6790/

I haven't played this game, but I'm gonna buy it today just to see what all the hubbub is about

[flyawave]

Well, after playing the demo I can say this

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HELL YEAH!

That is all for now

[BrownMasterV]

Just bought and played it for the first time.
I had no idea this game was Japanese!
It's fucking adorable, too 

[tomoya-kun]

Just bought and played it for the first time.
I had no idea this game was Japanese!
It's fucking adorable, too 

I love they left the voices untranslated.  Doshio ka-naa? 

[BrownMasterV]

Just bought and played it for the first time.
I had no idea this game was Japanese!
It's fucking adorable, too 

I love they left the voices untranslated.  Doshio ka-naa? 

Yatta = Yayifications!

I think it's fine, because it brought them a HUGE English-speaking audience.

[tomoya-kun]

Just bought and played it for the first time.
I had no idea this game was Japanese!
It's fucking adorable, too 

I love they left the voices untranslated.  Doshio ka-naa? 

Yatta = Yayifications!

I think it's fine, because it brought them a HUGE English-speaking audience.

Is it the only JRPG on steam?

[garrethking]

Just got this. At lvl 10, just made a 40k profit.

[t3h_triste]

Love this game. <3

[Angelkiller]

Its a good game but its getting to quickly boring :'(.
hopefully they will bring more games like that to steam.... If they do that again and I like it then I will again pre-order it

[Sosseres]

The best game on steam.  I would recommended purchasing it to support the developers, torrents kill indie game developers

I dunno, if i recall correctly, theyve sold over 200,000 copies or something...?
Anyhow, i bought it anyways, finished the game (twice), lvl 39, and now trying to get 100% everything?
I wonder how long it will take...

They reached 100k recently (during christmas sales or something akin to that).

http://www.carpefulgur.com/drakblog/?p=9
http://www.carpefulgur.com/drakblog/?p=11 follow up explaining parts of the above post.

[tomoya-kun]

Congratulations to reccetear!  Hope they release more translations on steam.

[Duki3003]

Just got this. At lvl 10, just made a 40k profit.

Level 9 and already have over 52k
This is some highly addictive and awesome game, but Recette, that is one heck of a bitch.

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She buys stuff from adventurers and common folk as low as 40% value, then sells it back to them at 130-260% and then makes them use the equipment they bought from her to go to risk their lives on quests to gather stuff for her to sell to them, mostlikely... All the while smiling in their face... Damn....

In any case, awesome game

[SeventyX7]

Buy at 40% and sell at as much as 260%?!?!?

You guys are clearly far better than I am at this.

I'm nearing the 80,000 deadline with barely enough & lvl 13 merchant.

I usually buy at 60-70% and sell at 110-130% for normals, 160% for high demand stuff.

[Proin Drakenzol]

fun game, really addicting.

[Duki3003]

Buy at 40% and sell at as much as 260%?!?!?

You guys are clearly far better than I am at this.

I'm nearing the 80,000 deadline with barely enough & lvl 13 merchant.

I usually buy at 60-70% and sell at 110-130% for normals, 160% for high demand stuff.

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When there is a shortage of stuff, high demand etc (displayed on the news ticker), you stock up on those items and buff up your prices 220-260% depending on whether it's your regular customer or not. Normal items usually go for 112-135%.
When buying stuff from commoners if you don't care about it you may start as low as 40%, if you're indifferent start at 55%, but if you like it 60-65%, and go up by 10% if they haggle.

Of course, visiting the dungeon is necessary, but it's a big gamble...

[BrownMasterV]

You can get 200-300% easily on 'high price' stuff.
I tend to stock up on stuff when it's 'low price', and I never sell stuff that is low price.

I have about 200K right now

[xfreidax]

What I found out after failing the final 500,000 payment...Major spoiler ahead.

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Actually when it's normal demand, it's better to aim for xp. Try to hit near pin's (near pin = price close to what the npc expects) and roll that first price xp bonus. ie the npc accepts your first offer, no haggling. If you can keep up the chain (sell at first price without a rejection consecutively), the xp bonus will hit +128 This is on top of the near pin bonus so it's possible to hit 150+ bonus xp on a sell late in the chain. If you sell things by haggling, you only get 10xp per sell in comparison.

You make a little less money this way, but the merchant levels you gain will even things out by opening up fusions faster, expanding your bag space and stocking the npc shops with higher level items earlier in the game.

You can typically hit a near pin selling at 104% for almost everybody. With Alouette and the little girl you can hit 106% and 105%.

Wait till it's high demand to make most of your money. With haggling, it's possible to sell as high as 300% on red items for almost all npc's.