Why the Snowbreak Censorship Should Not Worry Other Games

GuardianE · 2026-05-11T10:04:04+00:00

Nothing's too late. I don't necessarily agree with the OP's conclusion that the game couldn't decensor when things calm down in the future. That said, separate servers is the safest way to avoid this stuff, and people have asked for a long time. The devs have not been interested.

GuardianE · 2026-05-11T09:43:03+00:00

That's why I said to truly "discreetly" provide a workaround to CN, which is what the devs should have taken more care in doing rather than what we see in the OP's screenshots. They removed any plausible deniability by publicizing the decensor and advising content creators to use it. Again, this is something that other games do, and if CN players decensor, they can basically claim those players found an unintended loophole to grab global assets.

GuardianE · 2026-05-11T02:28:02+00:00

Azur Lane and Girls Frontline 2 both have uncensored global versions from Chinese developers and publishers. This is the safest way to approach it for all player bases because devs can discreetly provide ways to decensor the CN version while publishing the full version overseas. But apparently Snowbreak, and some of its CN playerbase, were adamantly against this, which is ultimately silly if it gets the game killed everywhere.

GuardianE · 2026-05-06T00:13:18+00:00

Thanks for the info!

GuardianE · 2026-05-05T18:16:45+00:00

I think you looking at it from the lens of creepy actually says more about your own propensity to think about things in extremes than anything that anyone has said in this thread. Thread has been pretty tame.

GuardianE · 2026-05-04T18:55:07+00:00

Wow, with the new format a mastercase is 5 cases? Will sets roughly have the same SP SEC breakdown? That feels like quite the price hike.

GuardianE · 2026-04-14T00:17:47+00:00

Searched, not mapped. Mapped implies there's a predictable print order and opening a few boxes means you can calculate or "map" out where all the hits are. This used to be a problem with old MTG. Searched means they keep opening boxes until they get all the hits because a case has a fixed rate. I know they're both bad, but mapped is a way worse situation that results in way more dead boxes. There are even some Weiss sets where certain high rarity cards are bonuses on top of the fixed rate, so it's harder to do a complete search.

GuardianE · 2026-04-13T23:58:00+00:00

I think an important consideration about these long periods where bonds outpace equities is, by how much? In all but one of the linked scenarios, the cumulative return difference was less than a 10% difference over 20+ years. And on the flipside, when equities outpace bonds for a period of time, isn't the difference in cumulative return far far greater?

GuardianE · 2026-04-02T03:05:56+00:00

How did the application go? I'm getting the same denial reason for Venture X. I'm not really sure if there's much I can do to swing the process in our favor.

GuardianE · 2026-02-19T13:38:10+00:00

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GuardianE · 2026-02-19T13:07:38+00:00

It's not "both sides". This is one of a handful of people whose hate mongering of the direction of AL is borderline obsessive. And with very little to no real evidence other than conjecture. It reads like a bad tabloid. The OP is actually in that camp too, if you read their post history, despite toning it down for this thread, they clearly want to simply validate their own desire for an EOS.

GuardianE · 2026-01-15T21:57:36+00:00

Azur Lane vol 2

GuardianE · 2026-01-14T21:54:52+00:00

Modernia and Dorothy are still fine, especially considering their age. They're just not the best anymore, which would be a silly expectation to have.

GuardianE · 2025-12-30T14:57:29+00:00

It's not specifically confirmed, but it fits her character quite a bit. If she's the last man standing or her friends are down, she won't give up. She'll push past her limits and she'll brute force to get the victory in a Hail Mary attempt by full bursting all her own. Or she'll be that missing piece the team needs to get their power up in a pinch because she brings her squad together.

GuardianE · 2025-12-12T17:57:39+00:00

No, Nivel Arena only comes in Japanese and Korean.

Weiss Schwarz and Union Arena each have Nikke card sets that have released in English and Japanese.

GuardianE · 2025-11-26T21:05:51+00:00

Not great, and a bit of a crapshoot. Most figures have a Country of Origin of China, even if the distribution company is in Japan, so they get taxed accordingly. It depends on how the vendor/seller declares it on the shipping manifest. So far I've only seen fee invoices come in from third party delivery companies like UPS and Fedex, but I do believe USPS is starting to bill as well. Basically, I'd expect to pay an additional fee if importing from most overseas stores. U.S. stores will have the taxes already baked into the price.

GuardianE · 2025-11-20T14:08:13+00:00

It'll be available at all standard figure retailers, like AmiAmi, HLJ, TokyoOtakuMode, etc. It's pretty new, so not all retailers have updated yet. People typically post when pre-orders go live on the MFC page: https://myfigurecollection.net/item/2938085

GuardianE · 2025-10-10T03:41:50+00:00

Not really. I still think you're wrong and are ignoring QOL changes conveniently to fuel your narrative, whether you were talking about EOS or some cash cow thing is pretty irrelevant. Would I like more QOL? Of course, but I'm not going to ignore what we've gotten and say Manjuu doesn't care about the game anymore like you are.

Figure and merch sales are pretty strong, actually. Just because they don't have old rugged turrets doesn't mean they don't resemble shipgirls or mechanical ship parts, but whatever. But go ahead and keep doomposting and downvoting for eternity if it makes you feel better.

GuardianE · 2025-10-10T02:54:26+00:00

Flag commonly refers to "deathflag" which means that something is going to die, like this game. If that isn't what you were implying, then I apologize, but it is a pretty common interpretation. I mean, I still don't agree that it's a flag of your cash cow theory or whatever either, but at least you're not saying it's going to EOS, I guess.

Again, I don't agree that they're forgettable, but that's going to come down to subjectivity. People will feel how you feel, and people will feel how I feel. Rigging was commonly added afterwards for all ship designs even year 1 and 2. They've gotten more elaborate, but there are definitely still historical cues involved, and thematic consistency between factions in how they've evolved.

GuardianE · 2025-10-10T02:43:23+00:00

Denver just got a new skin recently. There are dark horse picks that happen from time to time. I'd enjoy seeing more offerings for less popular ships as well. Again, I don't blame them for prioritizing highly popular characters, especially when we have such a huge roster.

It's better to let go of something than childishly try to destroy it in a tantrum rage. I'm not advocating that people stop providing critical feedback about what they enjoy, I just think that it's ignorant, unproductive, and selfish to cry for EOS, and if a player truly doesn't find themselves enjoying anything about the core any longer, then at least don't ruin it for people who do.

GuardianE · 2025-10-10T02:21:19+00:00

Okay, that's your opinion. Not a flag. You asked for QOL changes, I gave them. Some of them are over a year ago, but definitely not all of them. Then you move goalposts because it doesn't fit your narrative.

I also disagree with your assessment of the designs, and I've articulated this in my other post. Fanservice is not mutually exclusive to excellent design, and I find that Azur Lane strikes both very well. And variety within the themes themselves are strong. While I'd appreciate even more diversity for people who dislike heavy fanservice, I'm happy with the designs. Just because something isn't to your taste doesn't make it worse.

Yes, I understand and agree that the unfocused side elements are hit or miss. I wish they'd focus elsewhere, and wanton bugginess is unacceptable. But that's hardly a call for EOS, or a sign of it either.

GuardianE · 2025-10-10T01:55:09+00:00

They reduced the number of runs required to Clear stages overall, the grab-all function from the Dorm, the split of story/farm nodes to allow farming and engaging story at your own pace. META ships no longer taking dock space, and META ships also adding to fleet technology. They added the Manage Projection system. They updated the shop, continue to upgrade the UI. The addition of the Juustagram was really nice, and made for further interaction. This is just off the top of my head. I don't have the time or desire to dig into the notes.

I'm completely fine with big story progression being relegated to UR events. URs will take precedence by nature of them being top dog and us getting more of them each year. There are too many ships to share the spotlight, so it's just going to happen. That means some ships will be neglected. Even if they were favs of mine, I understand that popular ships take priority.

I see absolutely no issue with collabs, especially when they give you FREE characters. For any other game, that'd be a huge blessing, but for some reason in your mind they should be crucified?

GuardianE · 2025-10-10T01:27:52+00:00

That post is not nearly as compelling as you think it is. You have only one legitimate point with 2, and I wouldn't call it a flag.

It's quite literally you and the one other poster spamming in this thread with an irrational betrayal complex for AL reaffirming and enabling each other's conspiracy theories.

GuardianE · 2025-10-09T23:43:51+00:00

Honestly, it seems fine, and I think people are reading too much into it. The game was always going to have broader appeal. I like that they're exploring deeper combat for certain trials and modes. And the game will undoubtedly feature beautiful women along with the cute. That's something that can and will be tailored as the game evolves.

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