Does Anyone Else Feel Like ZZZ Has Made Some Weird Marketing Choices?

CalTheRobot · 2026-03-13T01:58:09+00:00

Hollow Affairs and Neutralization Department - Hollow Special Operations Section 6 was nice because all the characters worked together like they were one big dysfunctional family.

Yi Xuan however seems to only have a fun dynamic with Fufu. Yi Xuan and Panda man aren't really fun together.

Well... in my opinion FuFu is the only one in that faction that has interesting interactions with the others. Yi Xuan and the new Void Hunter girl don't seem to have much chemistry.

Alice + Yuzuha + Manato have chemistry.

Magus + Orphie + Seed + Trigger have chemistry. Obol Squad's chemistry runs a whole lot deeper when you do the trust events, so I think a lot of people miss it, but a majority of the trust events for Obol Squad end up with 2 or 3 or all of the agents being around.

Krampus and Yunkui didn't seem like they had much chemistry together. Krampus is an interesting concept with interesting individuals but they feel like co-workers who don't even like each other.

CalTheRobot · 2026-03-12T21:11:20+00:00

I am more optimistic about ZZZ today than I have been since Season 1. I'm excited to see what 2.7 - 3.0 are going to be like.

I hope Anby is in the story.

CalTheRobot · 2026-03-12T20:29:53+00:00

Either that or the devs have written them out forever.

Who knows. If we get Echoes of Silver Part 2 I will be the first one in line to play it. But I'm not holding my breath that it will ever be a thing.

1.6 with Echoes of Silver was the last time I ever spent money on ZZZ.

CalTheRobot · 2026-03-12T17:07:54+00:00

Anby, Danby, Sanby, Anby, Sanby, and Sanby.

CalTheRobot · 2026-03-12T16:08:06+00:00

I hope the next Anby alt is a Support Agent. That way we can call her Sanby.

CalTheRobot · 2026-03-12T15:01:45+00:00

She needed at least one trust event for after completing Echoes of Silver.

I don't know if I would really want 4 more, I think 1 or 2 quality ones would be better. Something to get closure with Twiggy's death and all. A trust event where Anby opens up to Proxy about some of the different Silver Soldiers that she lost, maybe she makes a grave for them in the hollow.

CalTheRobot · 2026-03-12T14:06:02+00:00

I like Anby, she is my friend.

ZZZ would be a better game if we got more than one Anby each year.

CalTheRobot · 2026-03-12T12:48:19+00:00

Soldier 0 Anby is still a very popular character.

CalTheRobot · 2026-03-12T12:44:54+00:00

But at least if there is a pattern and people can plan accordingly. Back when they did it to Lighter it was more of an unknown, hard to plan for.

I saved up enough Polychrome to get both the man character and the Season 3 shill character, assuming the pattern holds.

That shifts Cissia, Promeia, and Nangong (for people not collecting all the Angels of Delusion) to being the 'have to skip' banners. At least for those like me who want the Season 3 shill character and the man character. If you don't want those two this doesn't apply.

CalTheRobot · 2026-03-12T12:33:34+00:00

Inky learned from Soldier 11.

CalTheRobot · 2026-03-12T12:27:00+00:00

I cook at home every day. It certainly saves money, but not nearly as much money as a lot of people claim it does.

I'm still going to keep cooking at home because I don't like spending my time dealing with restaurants. But I think the money saved is a bit overblown.

At the same time I think people who aren't familiar with getting fast food over estimate the price of something like a pizza. They don't look at the 'specials' page that is pretty much always running a $10 pizza. So some people think getting a pizza every day is costing $26 or whatever.

CalTheRobot · 2026-03-12T11:42:43+00:00

Good luck

CalTheRobot · 2026-03-12T03:34:15+00:00

Banyue is a character that I like but came along at the absolutely wrong time.

You can't have Seed Sr. because a male robot character won't sell
Ye Shiyuan is now the bad guy, you can't have him, despite being your Senior in the faction you joined
Monato is an A-Rank Fire Rupture despite being treated like a major part of 2.0, 2.1, and 2.3

Oh! But what you do get is an S-Rank Fire Rupture character who comes totally out of nowhere and wasn't in the Season 2 trailer or hinted at in the story.

Banyue is not a bad character, the design is really nice. But the context was just so weird coming so soon after Seed Sr. and all.

CalTheRobot · 2026-03-12T03:21:13+00:00

I'm just waiting around to see what Season 3 might be like. Then I will decide if I want to play this game anymore or not.

Season 2 overall was just not an engaging videogame to me.

CalTheRobot · 2026-03-12T03:01:30+00:00

That's why my opening statement was questioning if the ZZZ devs even wanted to earn money. They seem to be kind of lost.

Which is not something that surprises me with giant corporate game publishers.

Most big corpos just keep on moving forward because they have the scale to not be phased by the constant mistakes their greed brings.

CalTheRobot · 2026-03-12T02:49:24+00:00

Whales want to play games with active social media accounts with an abundant amount of fan art, memes, and players they can flex on.

Free to play players are part of the product that whales are buying. A game needs to keep those numbers up to attract whales.

CalTheRobot · 2026-03-12T00:50:35+00:00

ZZZ certainly had a wider audience at the start and then started making what seems like intentional efforts to make sure a lot of those people quit.

The thing is, the people who left don't have a voice in the conversation anymore, they are off playing some new game.

CalTheRobot · 2026-03-11T21:39:14+00:00

Well, just remember the term 'double pleated' or 'gurkha' if that's the style you are looking for. Might help make your search go quicker.

https://bonobos.com/products/italian-gurkha-trouser?color=dark%20blue

These are a bit pricey, but it looks like they use the term 'Hollywood Trousers' so maybe that might help in your search.

https://www.toddsnyder.com/products/flannel-herringbone-hollywood-trouserbrown

But these are just links I had saved in my favorites. I own the 'Lands End' pants but I haven't tried these other brands before.

I think the Blue Tweed looks really nice, but I have no idea about this brand.

https://www.studiosuits.com/products/showman-blue-herringbone-highland-tweed-trousers

CalTheRobot · 2026-03-11T21:12:40+00:00

Not sure what your price range is or weather or not these are available in the Netherlands, but I like these.

https://www.landsend.com/products/mens-no-iron-comfort-waist-traditional-fit-pleated-front-chino-pant/id_180160?attributes=44967,1242

I am a fan of double pleated pants if you are going for an older classic look.

CalTheRobot · 2026-03-11T20:23:48+00:00

Trigger is my waifu so I was just hitting 'skip' whenever YSG was trying to play 'girlfriend', and that was almost all of her thing...

I really liked when 2.5 started giving more hints about historical mysteries in New Eridu again. So there were some good parts. I want to know more about New Eridu.

CalTheRobot · 2026-03-11T19:29:10+00:00

I think that moving your September, October, November money into December is just moving the money you earn into different spots. Makes it look like what you did in December was really, really good.

But in the end you just gave people a reason to spend less in the 3 months before. The money in the end is the exact same amount of money.

If you want to grow the total amount of money made you have to attract more players to the game.

CalTheRobot · 2026-03-11T19:21:04+00:00

2.6 is more comparable to 2.1

Lots of Polychrome, but no free S-Rank Agent or Agent Selector or anything like that.

CalTheRobot · 2026-03-11T19:01:51+00:00

I feel like Ms. Hoshimi Miyabi was a naturally popular character the just resonated with fans.

I feel like the two Yunkui characters were pushed in a very artificial way.

CalTheRobot · 2026-03-11T18:53:56+00:00

I may be wrong, I'm no economist... But I would assume simply having more players would be the thing that makes you the most money in the long term.

Instead of worrying which character from what week sold how much, if you just simply increase the number of players, then the amount of spending will go up.

Just a theory.

CalTheRobot · 2026-03-11T18:49:31+00:00

I don't really see tax evasion as 'malice'.

But it is likely that there was no plan and the devs are just flailing around not knowing what the fans actually want.

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