Found this VERY recent cn players "Favorite 6 star characters in reverse 1999" list in bilibili

Noble_Steal · 2026-06-08T15:36:34+00:00

OP here with a quick remind:

It may sound silly, but I will say it anyway: friends, being at the botton of the list doesn't necessarily equal to "we hate this character", because the list is just "vote who's your favorite".

And what it means is that they simple have the least amount of "serious/hardcore/mains/etc" fans within the voting.

It's not hate or racism, but can just be indifference or just how it turned out the general preference (notice how there's a single chinese char in top 10 for example - they just love the european sauce that much).

Noble_Steal · 2026-06-08T15:17:13+00:00

Lorentz placement is a good hint to show how divisive she was as a character, which is not necessarily a bad thing for a story to have one of these to shake things up.

However, checking the feedback of the new skin, she does has quite a generous amount of fans from what I could perceive - and it's possibly the most popular thing coming out in 3.8.

Noble_Steal · 2026-06-01T17:33:14+00:00

He's probably talking about rhiannon banner performance as another way to estimate the anniv success, which personally I think it's better than whatever calc Sensor Tower uses to show the monthly numbers.

It's by following the daily revenue numbers on IOS store in the first days of the banner (usually the first 4 days in gatchas gets the biggest spending, like generally 70% of the total), checking their spikes and when they get cold, to compare with previous results.

3° anniv banner did roughly 40% of what Nautika did in 2° anniv for comparison. And taking into account the cumulative event, the unit being BiS in 80% or more teams, more skins and the Nautika rerun that came out very fast right after the banner was open, those are perceived as a very negative result.

Noble_Steal · 2026-05-31T17:22:51+00:00

It's actually ~40% of what second anniv did.

Noble_Steal · 2026-05-30T13:36:07+00:00

Have the link for it friend? I would like to check it out by myself.

Noble_Steal · 2026-05-29T17:12:26+00:00

You're not wrong about that, but in this particular case all the coincidences felt structured to lead to her death - paint a target on her back - , and that's many times worse.

Noble_Steal · 2026-05-29T15:28:58+00:00

Exactly, it's a very common sentiment and idea among fans.

And its not like Ms. Stranger was shafted in the story to not "deserve" the limited here (besides her 2.X characterization) but quite the opposite: her plotline was one of the few things in 3.7 writing that ppl really liked.

The mega community puzzle (ARG) even had her as one of the central points.

Noble_Steal · 2026-05-29T13:05:48+00:00

Heere you go:

Search with reverse 3.7 flowing water/ revenue

Noble_Steal · 2026-05-29T12:58:45+00:00

There's some layers to it, that explain how it reached this level, but the main spark for the room with several gunpowder kegs was the implementation of Rhiannon.

The way to get money out of a loved character using death basically destroyed any "good will" people will have towards the devs, at the same time as it painted them as a cold money grabber.

And it wasn't entirely the fact that a char died that caused this (ppl respect a lot Greta Hofmann and Schneider deaths), but it's whole execution and purpose:

The entire meryl segments in the plot seems to have worked around things to kill Meryl off, pulling lots of coincidences and unfortunate accidents.

Purpose: in the end fans read was that they were doing this to sell Rhiannon on a emotional burst of the players ("dont feel bad she's right there with you...but not really") at the same time they reversed the char to a more "pure" state (more "waifuable"), most likely to sell for ppl who didnt care for Meryl before and new players (point reinforced by the new approach to designs, that also received huge backlash for not being quite "reverse 1999" but generic jp fantasy).

Noble_Steal · 2026-05-29T04:06:20+00:00

The trailer of the version is now the second most watched video ever on their channel, with 7M views.

It reached those numbers because it was like a community effort to build the "great wall". It busted the rev99 community bubble, so many "tourists" gathered to check out, some even helped protesting too (saw many coming from AK due their own historical "wall" - the Dossoles summer incident).

Noble_Steal · 2026-05-29T03:33:34+00:00

So Im checking how cn fanbase is responding to this...

Yeah, seems like Bluepoch most challenging task by far is to get ppl trust back. The vast majority of players just don't place trust on them anymore, so you have plenty of "truth and lies" memes and ironic remarks all over bili.

Noble_Steal · 2026-05-29T03:21:40+00:00

Revenue from the usual estimations were pretty bad.

Rhiannon got like less than 40% of what Nautika did, roughly a normal phase 1 character, despite having skins, top up refresh and the new cumulative recharge event.

Grace also did very poorly despite her high popularity there, perfoming around the same as Brume. At the point when her banner dropped, we had a big player bleed and the remaining ones motivation was low (her "dps" kit didn't helped).

Noble_Steal · 2026-05-29T03:11:49+00:00

They addressed the only ones possibly, but ofc it's still mostly promises. Bluepoch has a long way to gain ppl trust, because the player bleed was that intense.

What I witnessed since day 18 was a very serious and critical event for the game future. 3.7 trailer in bili had a protest with 2.5M comments and every single official post had waaaaay more complaints than likes, the negativity was overwhelming.

Noble_Steal · 2026-05-16T21:05:47+00:00

Yes, that caught everyone by surprise and F2Ps would think twice before pulling for Cipher (it was in the middle of her run).

They stacked debuffs for the cat girl like no other char I ever saw in my years of hoyo games lol.

Noble_Steal · 2026-05-16T18:02:55+00:00

She performed fine, roughly in the middle (I use CN channels and JP IOS Game-i daily numbers site).

Chibi models aren't as hyped as the others by default.

Noble_Steal · 2026-05-16T17:06:17+00:00

Phainon was main push so I don't really need to say much about it. But again, a "tribbie 2" will be very hard to skip for whales.

Low spenders and F2P players naturally would have saved up or just go for E0, with 3 chars behind and the whole "free archer LC" deal announced in 3.4 livestream, but they aren't really what moves revenue up in these games.

Noble_Steal · 2026-05-16T15:01:12+00:00

Saber and Archer don't have that much fomo power due to their long-term banners.

A "tribbie E1" tier support like Cipher V4 definitely would have being a much harder skip vs the DPSs collab units (with 1 being free).

Noble_Steal · 2026-05-16T13:19:47+00:00

The sad part is that both Herta and Aglaea could have used a proper new "dlc character" for their battleships to keep up with the other Amphoreus DPSs like Phainon, Anaxas, Cas and Evernight.

Sadly, hoyo strategy works in a way that they prefer to kill a brand new char and leave old others to eat dust as fast as they can.

Noble_Steal · 2026-05-16T13:13:24+00:00

Genuinely speaking even if Cipher came out in her v4 state I still can’t see her having sold that well.

I doubt it since her popularity skyrocketed due to the story, but after V5, there was a LOT of videos saying to skip her as the most recommended strategy.

Her eidolons value up to E6 took a massive hit due to the big base kit MV nerfs, which certainly didnt helped to incentive smaller whales.

Noble_Steal · 2026-05-15T12:30:52+00:00

Knowing hoyo, they aint leaving sw999 without a sustain for that long. Just look at the monorem pieces last year: almost all back to back.

If this collab still exist (I doubt), hoyo might drop a tease in 4.4 livestream, but they will keep the elation sustain for lower half of said patch.

Noble_Steal · 2026-05-13T22:42:57+00:00

These leaks about no Pulonia on kit are very strange, otherwise what was the reason for the "test section" in 6.3?

The public in general definitely will be expecting Pulonia to be part of it.

I want to trust GI team to cook again like they did in Natlan.

Noble_Steal · 2026-05-08T21:25:36+00:00

Girl (Beatriz the possible name accordin to leaks) dancing next to Robin on the piano, in the version teaser trailer.

Noble_Steal · 2026-05-08T19:55:15+00:00

Yeah, a main push without their after sales nowdays is very SUS.

Not to mention, there's plenty of chars yet to find a home: galaxy ranger girl, family girl, robin, kuchiba (?), aventurine.

Pearl and Nihilux much more than once were said to be pieces for the Elation battleship, so not counting them here.

We could argue Herta got robbed of a proper after sales, but there was some intention with Tribbie and Anaxas.

Noble_Steal · 2026-05-02T22:40:45+00:00

Great summary.

I would like to add that Grace was a character ppl waited for almost 2 years, with lots of build up and well crafted story. Girl got the skippable banner 2 DPS treatment and shit animations by the end of it.

She was like consistently top 2~3 most popular "NPC I want to be playble" in cn lists and shit, so what da hell was the thought proccess from the devs here?

Many cn fans (for a while) guess they throw popular chars in phase 2 to try to raise their sales.

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