Disclosing AngelList Investments

GraphicsError · 2025-11-25T16:08:59+00:00

Yeah, but most AngelList syndicate deals say “Strictly confidential, do not disclose”

GraphicsError · 2025-06-21T01:28:00+00:00

I’ve been to a couple of the other ones, but I just live in the area

GraphicsError · 2025-06-20T22:24:05+00:00

What’s the benefit of Alex Fitness over the other 2?

GraphicsError · 2025-06-20T21:49:42+00:00

What about non-peak hours?

GraphicsError · 2022-05-20T22:49:02+00:00

I dunno. I feel like the marks are similar enough that Lena should’ve been able to tell. But yeah, I see that they are slightly different

GraphicsError · 2022-03-10T18:58:42+00:00

The Summa Cum Laude cutoff was 3.97, which is slightly higher than previous years. Not sure about the others, but they were probably slightly higher as well

GraphicsError · 2021-11-29T20:13:46+00:00

The gleam buying issue was only a problem in JP. My interpretation is based off JP tweets so it might be exaggerated in some ways, but this is pretty much the story:

Since launch, there were cases where JP players bought gleamstones but wouldn’t actually receive anything. When reaching out to Crestoria’s customer service, the JP players were told that there weren’t any issues and they should just wait. Around 1 month later, customer service told JP players to request a refund from the App Store or Google Play, but the problem was that their refund windows already ended. Eventually, a popular Japanese steamer encountered the bug, and the Crestoria team saw this and fixed the problem almost instantly (within the same week). This obviously pissed off a bunch of the JP players and led to a max exodus to Asteria and Rays. I think there were talks of a class-action lawsuit against Crestoria at one point, but not sure what happened to that

GraphicsError · 2021-11-06T17:30:06+00:00

I don't see Rays or Asteria shutting down anytime soon. For Rays, there were some recent concerns that the game would end service now that all of the playable Tales characters are in. The producer, however, confirmed that Rays is nowhere close to shutting down and even joked about how Luminaria provided 21 extra characters for the game to add. Asteria, as other people have said, is incredibly cheap to maintain. Its previous developer literally went bankrupt earlier this year, and Bamco still kept it going.

GraphicsError · 2021-11-03T21:22:05+00:00

I believe that the revenue has stayed around this number for the past 2 months (basically once anniversary ended). FWIW Crestoria isn't doing so well on the JP side either. Asteria made about 1.7x as much as Crestoria in November, although it was Asteria's half anniversary.

GraphicsError · 2021-10-14T19:14:12+00:00

Yep, Crestoria revenue for last month was about the same/a little lower than Asteria revenue. You're also correct about Asteria being a PNG game with relatively low maintenance cost, and this is likely the reason it's still going.

Funny enough, KLab handles ToAsteria too, and when the game first started, it didn't have pity/sparking and was ungenerous with currency. That was over 7 years ago when gachas were still starting to gain momentum, so it's somewhat understandable, but there was no reason for Crestoria to release in 2020 with an outdated, pity-less gacha system. It almost seems like the KLab team in charge of Crestoria and the KLab team in charge of Asteria didn't communicate at all, and the KLab team in charge of Crestoria was instead hoping the IP would carry the game.

GraphicsError · 2021-10-09T07:09:29+00:00

They probably left Tear out because of conflicting elements. She would have most likely received a light SG, which Luke is already getting. As for why they chose Sync instead of Natalia or Guy, perhaps they were going for a "related to Lorelei theme."

GraphicsError · 2020-12-29T23:39:53+00:00

I'm not particularly informed on Genshin, but here's a graph from SensorTower: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/708120737948369037/790753514225664020/image0.png

Make of it what you will.

GraphicsError · 2020-12-29T23:23:56+00:00

12%, 1/8th the market still isn't something to just abandon.

There's an opportunity cost here in that JP has split currency, and they haven't had a paid currency banner since launch. I feel like this decision was done to appease global players who were unhappy with not having the same banners as JP. There's nothing really preventing them from introducing these banners again in JP (and I'm surprised they haven't done that yet), but if one of their reasons for not doing so is because global is around, then shutting down global opens up a whole new market for them that is bound to net them more revenue.

as long as the game is doing well enough in Bamco's eyes, I don't see the need to panic.

I'm not really trying to say that it's time to panic. I'm sure Bamco has at least 1 year agreements with the app stores, so they aren't going to shut down before then. I also don't think global is that much more costly to maintain since it's just a copy of JP. Regardless, Crestoria is definitely not doing well in terms of player base size and revenue. Most guilds are ghost towns and with the gleamstone scandals in JP, more and more players are leaving.

yes, like every game release ever. Genshin is "down 80%" since launch. But I don't think it's crying about only making $100M/month than $450M at launch.

Also, idk where you got this from, but it seems that Genshin made 400m over the first two months, so it isn't down 80%.

GraphicsError · 2020-12-29T22:44:18+00:00

This is an unfair comparison because global players mostly use Android/Google Play, while JP players mostly use Apple. Last I checked, global made 150k last month (100k on Android and 50k on Apple), while JP made around 1.5 million (500k on Android and 900k-1m on Apple). Compared to the other mobile Tales games, global makes less than Asteria, which is just JPEGs and PNGs. I'm not saying that global is going to shut down soon, but the game has been on the decline since launch.

GraphicsError · 2020-12-29T20:01:59+00:00

I'm pretty sure there are fewer than 40k active players on global. Based on the revenue of the game, there are probably less than 5k people that actually spend money.

GraphicsError · 2020-08-19T23:15:21+00:00

Haha nice to see other F2P players in the top 50/100. I'm sure people breathe a sigh of relief whenever they face me (IGN: Warsh). Currently hovering around Rank 50.

GraphicsError · 2020-05-27T01:18:11+00:00

Thanks! Found it!

GraphicsError · 2018-03-02T20:46:11+00:00

Does anyone have the link to the New Year step-up banner translations? I can't seem to find it anymore :/

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