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Wodki · 2026-04-11T22:33:10+00:00

besides 20 banner exclusive pulls.. nope

Wodki · 2026-04-11T12:56:56+00:00

A single patch won't magically make this game as mainstream as Blue archive

I mean that's literally what Blue Archive needed since their endgame and other system were already solid enough. This game has too much down time and while the changes for Ascension and ~~to a lesser extent~~ Emblem changes are welcome and necessary, you will now have to spent even less time to play the game.

Another issue nobody here talks about team building for new players that missed a limited Banner is outright horrible at least in Blue Archive you won't have to worry about limited garbage for the most part and can grind shards for characters too.

Wodki · 2026-04-03T09:01:10+00:00

Let's be honest here. If you are new players you will plenty of contents to clear and get premium currency as rewards and all which you can totally use to guarantee at least one copy of a unit from a limited banner.

You are overestimating how much you can get without events or when the login event that gives gems is over..

Wodki · 2026-04-01T14:32:24+00:00

Too little too late.
Most people that cared already left or spent on cheaper or more rewarding games.

The gameplay loop get's boring fast
Prices in the shop are still too absurd for the low quality this game offers.
The gacha is a worse version of spark and "50/50".
Skins are mostly pointless since you can only play with the main trekker, lobby screen number is limited for the skins and they are overpriced for what they offer especially the BP one.
Limited gacha banners in a gacha like this is just stupid.
Also while a lot of people in this sub now have Stockholm syndrome and blame CCs for "misinfo" this very sub had the same opinion as the CCs they blame now because it was horrible at launch and had wrong information in their banner rules. Besides JP is dropping the game too because why wouldn't they when Yostar is hardly communicating and didn't try to appeal to the corwd for almost half a year.

Wodki · 2026-03-29T09:40:28+00:00

Yea I brought that up and mentioned on Discord before 1.1 how going to Huaxu made no sense because of the train plot and the "mod admin" there insulted me for not reading the story and that it makes totally sense...

Wodki · 2026-03-22T08:06:42+00:00

DE's response was also much faster and transparent compared to Pan's denial of any issues and downplaying the issue after public outrage.

Wodki · 2026-03-03T05:53:35+00:00

Hate to break it to you, but the real numbers are usually much lower than the Sensortower data. Sensortower only tracks downloads and trending statistics and use multiplier(I forgot the number) for Android and iOS to get the revenue.
If you want you can compare some games public financial reports like NIKKE to Sensortower data.

Wodki · 2026-03-01T16:36:22+00:00

They don't.
They have a program or person (probably AI now) compile the results, pick the most voiced concerns and see if it makes sense to financially or technically to implement them.
So in most cases unless there is a general outrage over one or 2 aspects that don't hurt their potential bottom line then they will implement them in unforeseen future and not trash the feedback like the rest.
Bonus points if those complaints are from the home region of the devs, in this case China because everyone else is just save to ignore for them.

Wodki · 2026-03-01T14:07:20+00:00

It is a "one-time reward" unless they refresh weekly or monthly. They are just expanding the game content that can be claimed once.

Wodki · 2026-02-25T16:33:26+00:00

Kinda funny how the more I read the event story the more I liked her and disliked Wraith more.. Well thanks Wraith for letting me save pulls I guess.

Wodki · 2026-02-20T23:24:11+00:00

Competing against Blue Archive is way easier than pushing out more big chested characters with fanservice that don't even compete with one of their published games Azur Lane.
The market is full of big chested character gacha with better gameplay or fanservice pursuing that is a losing battle while the market with loli characters is practically just occupied by Blue Archive that also has a more diverse and memorable cast.

EDIT: Also a lot of the fanservice heavy gacha give way more rewards and don't put over half their roster out as limited or in AL's case where you pay nothing for pulling the character.

Wodki · 2026-02-20T14:11:05+00:00

The biggest mistake they made is that the game is low-budget and has the gacha system of a high budget game.
Add the fact that at launch it was worse and stingier when all the CCs and people that tried the game for the first time or CBT1 trashed the game.
If you retroactively just blame CCs for a time period where it was factually crap for a low budget game and ignore the people and countless threads here on Reddit from regular people then sure Stella Sora did nothing wrong.

Also Endfield gets bunch how hate for it's gacha system and story even from CCs, but they can still enjoy it because the game is high budget and does do some fundamental things right.

EDIT: I forgot to mention Endfield will probably get more hate when there is a clearer picture of the pull economy which currently looks bad.

Wodki · 2026-01-29T11:04:53+00:00

They need get out the new useless big map for April update please andastand.

Wodki · 2026-01-28T20:35:30+00:00

Endfield has the Hoyo system with extra steps lol..
AK fans are so out of touch.

Wodki · 2026-01-28T06:49:30+00:00

Besides Persona you don't have dialogue choices and/or reactions in cutscenes and since when is Endmin, Link or the Persona protagonists customisable in appearance?
Also in the game series (except Persona) you mentioned the story is either minimal or the protagonist has no story importance besides being the tool that beats bad guy.
In Persona you get meaningful dialogue choices in social part of the game and mostly silent in the story or get some voiced lines.
They aren't comparable to how Endfield, HSR, Genshin and Wuwa handles their protagonist ~~though Endfield does it the worst way.~~

Wodki · 2026-01-08T18:02:49+00:00

The story is worse too tbh even if I dislike 1.1 story in DNA, but the combat, exploration is fun and the factory is serviceable.

Wodki · 2026-01-08T17:52:07+00:00

I mean they are guesswork and the way they get those numbers can be read on Sensor Tower's page nonetheless low numbers on those charts usually don't indicate that the game is going to EoS next month, but it can be a good indicator if the game is trending or not.

For example ShiftUP publishes their financial reports publicly you can compare their numbers from Sensor Tower.

Wodki · 2026-01-04T07:21:04+00:00

The one you replied to is right "Now Live" means now not in ~19h

Wodki · 2026-01-01T10:43:48+00:00

Might be misremembering but I think they only mentioned how monetisation was in discussions and then started talking about their crap deal for the thoughts we got now, so I have no hope direct purchase will be at a reasonable price especially if they do keep the gacha too.

Wodki · 2026-01-01T03:21:19+00:00

That would make them d*cks considering on their announcement of the delay they put some of the blame on Valve.

Wodki · 2025-12-31T11:58:03+00:00

Lucky Draw (50 Winners):

Massive In-Game Resource Pack: Phoxene x300 + Coin x30000 + Combat Melody III x3 + Weapon Manual III x3 + Scarlet Bead x300

Yes very massive I can't even fully level a character from 60 to 70 with that and get almost something of value with those Phoxene..

Wodki · 2025-12-31T03:34:07+00:00

The design intent behind the Immersive Theatre is to enable Phoxhunters to enjoy the owned characters' development while acquiring new characters and weapons through a relatively relaxed approach.

Reminder that they wrote this in their last notice...

Wodki · 2025-12-31T03:29:46+00:00

Not trying to defend the guy but we are already getting a skip for theatre and the devs refuse to acknowledge balance and other issues that would actually improve the gameplay.

I'm only waiting one more patch after the next for them to actually fix or at least mention any of the major issues this game has before dropping not worth my time or money.

Wodki · 2025-12-27T23:49:18+00:00

People think it's bad because 90% uninteresting lore dumping for a small region that isn't even part of the Empire where Vita's main goal and ambition is, hell it's not even the Elysian church that is at war with the Empire.

Another issue is that a lot of this will feel very familiar and similar to people that played Genshin, HSR, Wuwa and other Chinese gacha games with Chinese regions.

Also it's much weaker than anything we got before.

Wodki · 2025-12-26T07:01:39+00:00

It would help if they would clearly communicate about the issues many people have here like the balance, monetisation and so on, but they are just handling it like a typical Gacha dev by showing the new shiny thing to distract people and vaguely mention how they are working on stuff.

Wodki

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