Idle Rpg Taskbar Hero Market Reopens June 25 With Top Grade Items Restricted
The market reopening restores the core real-money trading loop that drove Taskbar Hero's explosive growth, but the studio is holding back the highest-grade items to prevent a repeat of the server meltdown that tanked user reviews to 48% positive.
Reporting from 2 sources: Automaton, Game Spark.
Nugem Studio announced the market for the idle RPG Taskbar Hero will resume on June 25 after a suspension due to server overload and cheat program issues. Items of the top three grades will be temporarily restricted from listing to ensure stability, with gradual unblocking planned. The game recently peaked at 500,000 concurrent players.
Nugem Studio said the market for the idle RPG Taskbar Hero will come back online at 4:00 PM JST on June 25, ending a suspension that began on June 8. The studio shut down trading after cheat programs and a flood of item listings overwhelmed Steam's servers, pushing concurrent players past 400,000 at the time. Since then, the player count has kept climbing, recently hitting a peak of 500,000 daily users on Steam, according to SteamDB. To keep the market from breaking again at launch, items of the top three grades-Cosmic, Divine, and Celestial-will be blocked from listing until the studio confirms stability, with a separate schedule for their release. The game's Steam user reviews currently sit at 48% positive out of roughly 31,000 reviews, a 'Mixed' rating driven by the server troubles.
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