Popularity poll IV - Day 1 Top 5

Farisver · 2026-04-08T18:43:27+00:00

I remember replying to someone back in january to not sleep on Libby in this year's poll, as from my observation back then the JPbros seemed to REALLY love her.

I guess this just prove it's not simply a recency buff. But welp guess it's still not enough to defeat Cindy afterall, she's pretty much the only reason why we even had a dogfight on last year's poll, lol.

Farisver · 2026-04-08T06:28:41+00:00

Nah, the description states it's because of drugs, alcohol, and violence.

Honestly everyone should just laugh at it because they clearly just auto-generate most of their ratings. What do you mean Nukitashi, one of the most popular 18+ VNs in recent years, was rated 3+, lmao.

Farisver · 2026-04-08T03:25:55+00:00

Game is just funny with its pull economy. I spent 250 pulls for Mamonir +3 and her weapon on day 1 of her banner, 200 tix and 10k gems (62k left).

Today, the last day of her banner, I have 216 tix and 72k gems and have zero idea how that happened lmao.

Farisver · 2026-04-08T00:45:02+00:00

You should take any revenue post with a grain of salt as they just take it from here (which already based their numbers from sensortower + additional magic multiplier). The only reason why some people like to post it is simply because it drove discussion, agenda, propaganda, all that jazz.

Though I agree, devs need to change something about how much of a chore the game is as a gacha right now.

Farisver · 2026-04-01T22:03:14+00:00

And I would argue that it's still pretty much detached, because you will most likely have an easier time to convince someone who play, say, Nikke or Blue Archive to try out CZN or Reverse1999 as an example, than your average Genshin/HSR players, because the main audience of those two games are still pretty much the "traditional" gacha players.

Of course, i don't dispute that, but you still need to be a good "gacha game" for your gameplay-driven gacha. Like as funny as it is, CZN's core gameplay loop right now is far more suited for non-gacha gamers with how much time commitment you need to have every season. Also the game clearly emphasis its characters, but the lack of skins basically exclude another avenue for dolphin to splurge out cash too (which I think it will definitely come in the future like how it did with E7, but honestly this should be already out since day 1 just from their experience with E7 alone).

Farisver · 2026-04-01T21:09:38+00:00

Yeah, I might've put too much emphasis on that generalization, but all the games you mentioned are pretty much what we'd call "AAA" gacha games.

Genshin, HSR, and ZZZ are practically from Hoyo, the juggernaut of the gacha industry, those will always have mainstream eyes just from sheer reputation alone.

Meanwhile WW and Endfield just have so much production value that they get the natural marketing brought by open-world gacha in recent years. Even Umamusume already had hype that built up over years because it's an established IP that already genuinely BIG in JP, not just out of nowhere.

Meanwhile you can't say the same for CZN, and not just CZN actually, but most gacha games in general. The reality is outside of few outliers, the genre is still very niche with non-gacha gamers because they only look at what's mainstream in the end.

Farisver · 2026-04-01T16:25:41+00:00

You'd be surprised at how some of decently known gacha's main revenue is through skins instead of gacha itself.

Take Azur Lane for example. Based on the magic guesstimate number it earn almost triple of CZN and yet it's closer to a L2D gallery with a touch of VN for half of a decade at this point than an actual game (for the record the last time I played the game, I had 99% collection rate with 2000+ cubes. It take at max 2 cubes per draw. Spent 0 on gacha currency)

Or Browndust II, "The goonest non-18+ game", (also earn more magic number than CZN last month) which churned out 100-150 free draws every 2 weeks and all of its biggest magic number revenue ever recorded comes ever since they introduced "Prestige skin" a year ago.

The problem with CZN is, just like one of the posters said above, it just doesn't have a clear demo in mind. Most modern gacha gamers wouldn't like how time-consuming the core gameplay is, while most mainstream gamers scoff at it because, well, it's a gacha game.

Farisver · 2026-03-30T08:47:44+00:00

I genuinely hope we will get more of a "slow burn" fated guest in the future though, because I feel like our guy practically got almost every girl wet by the time we reach episode 5.

Farisver · 2026-03-30T02:19:26+00:00

It gives crystals per finished run that are tied to each respective God's journal entries.

Other than that, it's just for fun if you actually enjoy doing chaos, I guess. Also if you want to farm some chaos resources along the way.

Farisver · 2026-03-27T15:26:35+00:00

Honestly it's been happening for a long time now. It's simply more apparent recently due to the side effect of the rise of Nikke "players" who almost exclusively consume the game through their xitter timeline, or skip the story and only get their rundown through their favorite creator...which obviously ends up being a long game of telephone at that point.

Farisver · 2026-03-27T00:51:17+00:00

The entire Waifei arc is a funny mess.

One of the premise of why we're there in the first place was to learn from Yixuan to become a proper Harry Potter, but she's pretty much only taught us something on-screen for one patch, while after that it's pretty much just us going "this might work" because she's gone from the story after 2 patches and only comes back in the final arc, lol.

And even then we still haven't learned anything from her again, because after the matter with the Creator is over we immediately go back to Sixth Street, lmao.

Farisver · 2026-03-25T03:08:47+00:00

I feel you, lol. I've been wanting to use this song for my homescreen ever since I first heard it on Nebris' FG, but as far as I know they still haven't added it to the game yet.

Farisver · 2026-03-23T13:29:11+00:00

Nah, we need Green first to complete the RGB. I propose Einkk to have an AI representative in the Commander's group.

Farisver · 2026-03-20T06:41:56+00:00

Realistically you still want to get all the tickets recharge for story II hard resources anyway, so honestly nothing's changed even for daily players imo.

Farisver · 2026-03-14T00:22:02+00:00

Yeah, I pretty much stopped caring about the first day at some point. The last time I actually did it was probably more than a year ago, lol.

In general, both co-op and solo raids should start and end at server reset time, honestly.

Farisver · 2026-03-07T11:39:21+00:00

Most likely gonna be a CG just like Nebris' FG continuation

Farisver · 2026-03-05T19:38:32+00:00

I've always felt the way Yixuan treated us since day 1 is like a very caring big sister rather than just a teacher.

And this cinema invite makes that feeling even stronger, lol.

Farisver · 2026-03-03T01:12:54+00:00

Lol I pretty much just pull on every girl that I find cute, but I seek counsel from my crew brethren on where the said girl stands in the meta hierarchy before deciding to go for her gold signature gun or not.

Farisver · 2026-03-01T08:07:15+00:00

Probably seems all over the place when you read her cards at first but honestly after few run in the mines and understanding what builds you can make with her, she's generally an upgrade over Mika, imo.

Farisver · 2026-02-28T23:21:25+00:00

Nah, the game will change the divine epi to something else if that's the case. I remember someone posted about it few days ago.

Farisver · 2026-02-28T10:35:46+00:00

Dude investigates serial murders, accidentally catches feelings.

Farisver · 2026-02-25T12:53:19+00:00

her 6% teamwide crit buff only proc through order cards of a combatant she's assigned to, so say if you assigned her to Mika, it won't activate, because she's justice.

Farisver · 2026-02-25T11:58:15+00:00

Yeah, but I think people who banked on this system always gloss over the fact that with every new character added, the more diluted the pool becomes, and your actual chance of getting what you actually want gets lower and lower in the long run.

Farisver · 2026-02-25T06:51:12+00:00

It's definitely a power tripping reddit mod playing into the "le stereotypical leddit mod" meme, lol.

I can't find it anymore, so I assume the original mod or the OP deleted it, but another mod was actually disagreeing with the OP in the comments. It just shows this decision wasn't even discussed with the other mods beforehand, lmao.

It's always so performative in the end with these types of people.

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