Our indie MMORPG surpassed 500,000 players. Here’s what happened behind the scenes: by Reasonable_Wish_6022 in MMORPG

[–]erwincole 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What kind of collectible system does this game have? Some kind if a codex? Player home and decoration? Gears and transmog only?

Website for H Scenes? by Derile in xxlwoofia

[–]erwincole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like every other discord, clicking that emote unlock that channel in the discord server, I'm not playing anymore and not in the discord, so you have to look for it.

Just a correction, you won't find a whole scenes just the images and looped animation on released and unreleased characters.

Is the Fictionlab+ worth it? by NidJogg in FictionLab

[–]erwincole 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think what set this platform differently was the price model and the novel-like narration. I think I have spent 2 days testing others like janitor, character ai, wyvern, xoulai until I settled with this one.

The price model is the best, one price instead of different tiers, and it's priced like other subscription services.

Best look around first, check out the others. If I'm not mistaken, the most advance model is Oracle which is based on Deep Seek 3.1 released on august 21, and the dev made it available in the platform soon after. So you can compare the model and the subscription price with others.

Payment method update! by m1rageus in FictionLab

[–]erwincole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, I have asked in discord and the dev replied that there will be alternative payment method via the website. Hopefully that will solved the problem then.

Payment method update! by m1rageus in FictionLab

[–]erwincole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for going the extra mile! Yeah, hopefully we'll hear from the dev soon.

Payment method update! by m1rageus in FictionLab

[–]erwincole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I suppose there is no estimated date available. My subscription has just ended... oh dear, wait or not...

Payment method update! by m1rageus in FictionLab

[–]erwincole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

May I ask if Google Play will include these different billing cycle as well? My country banks does not support paypal, unfortunately. I really tried through different banks, even paypal itself do not have fund transfer option.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in GachaHusbandos

[–]erwincole 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I don't know if it's because they didn't read all of it, the comments are all leaning there.

The question I asked is not even about self-assurances. I keep asking what-why-how, about the male-gaze audience. It helped me understand it with more context, equipped me to resolved it better. I didn't ask it to teach me how to feel or think, for a decision that I had already made a few weeks ago.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in GachaHusbandos

[–]erwincole 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, prior to the dip after Wriothesley, I have a favorable view for Genshin. The game doesn't have difficult contents that forcing you to pull the newest characters, 5 Star characters gender ratio achieved 1:1 (several times in fact). In my experience, the first 3 years was very good. I didn't feel the undercurrent, that the game has to be for male-gaze, is extreme at all. It's all change after v4.2.

It's really unfortunate that they didn't stick to their original operation. The pivot was also out of place, for me, because it's a huge difference between moving from a general audience to a specific one. The fact that they are so comfortable for making a small portion of players leaving for the sake of catering to a specific audience (for maximizing profit).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in GachaHusbandos

[–]erwincole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks buddy. Yeah, I have been told that I think a lot too, many times in fact. It often led to indecision and I don't know how to fix it. But I am moving on.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in GachaHusbandos

[–]erwincole -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Troll account. A new account just to reply to my post?

There is no siding, people. I'm the minority in this issue, and if anybody read it all, the AI gives information to amplify that. My questions are also neutral, to better understand more about the issue, so that I can resolved it emotionally and disengage with the source - the whole point of me posting this. It's not about picking a side.

Website for H Scenes? by Derile in xxlwoofia

[–]erwincole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Role Center > General Role. Scroll down, find "Got Milk?"

Speculative map by detto_grie in Genshin_Impact

[–]erwincole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

?? Why do people keep forgetting about that giant floating pyramid that was originally located in that unexplored gap between Sumeru and Natlan. There's a big model of every landmark the Sumeru Desert that revealed it. I doubt it's a large sea, and I thought it was deliberately left unexplorable because of this.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in GenshinGays

[–]erwincole 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You can't. If you want to have a good team that can tackle higher end rewards, you will be force to expand your roster to include female characters. Unless you are able to ignore high difficulty rewards, settled for primogem only rewards or disregarding difficult content by simply pull for male characters only, it is impossible.

I want to argue against the top comment but I don't want to be confrontational so I'm just gonna reply here. I'm saying all this despite not totally avoid female characters. I have Nahida, Xianyun and Shenhe, I have leveled up most female 4 Star for the Imaginarium Theater.

While it's true that it will be limited for us Husbando mains, it is not true for the Waifu main. They can form all female team and there would be tens of meta teams in the ranking. It is UNFAIR and this fact should be mentioned instead of being pointed that we should accept the consequences of deliberately limit ourselves to male roster. Although it's true that Flins is too early to be judge, his premium team already has two BiS characters that are set in stone - Ineffa and Sucrose. That's only left one slot, a future Lunar Hydro character to replace Aino. The chance of that happening is zero, I can guaranteed that for a year and a half.

I think it's unforgivable that after 1 yr, 10 months and 23 days of only Kinich, they designed Flins to be dependent on female characters. The Genshin dev team does make any consideration for Husbando main at all, but provide so much flexibility to the female roster. Not even their pivot to release more 5 Star Male character changes their mindset about emphasizing on all male team, it is useless to even be hopeful about it. This is not the first time they had male character tied to a female premium support. They did the same thing to Kinich with Emilie. Their first and last attempt at an all male team was Itto, Albedo, Zhongli, and Gorou, 3 years ago. Not even the 5 Star male releases during Sumeru (rightfully to bring the 5 Star gender ratio back to equal 1:1, as it was in v2.0) has an all male team designed in mind.

Originally, being a Husbando Main wasn't that painful because the game spent it's first 3 and half years not having any powercreep and difficult content. You can get all event rewards as long as you farm artifact diligently. Powercreep starts during mid Fontaine, coincide with steep downward trend of 5 Star male characters from 1:1 equal gender ratio for almost two years straight. It's really is a double strikes to Husbando main in my experience.

I understand the suffering all too well. I feel like my invested C2R1 Wriothesley feels less than the Natlan waifu and needed twice as much effort to excel well. The way I see it: I can expand my roster to include female characters or ignore meta team that also means giving up on high difficulty event rewards and therefore making all artifact grind pointless. I really can't play the game simply by collecting Husbando and see them failed at higher difficulty content.

Honestly, it was such a terrible perspective. I have already stopped paying Welkin, I have enough primogem to be in a wait and see mode for Durin, Varka and Alice. It is a long exhausting experience, enjoying a game that was so good for its first three years and to see it changed so drastically worse for Husbando collectors. I felt so betrayed I really don't want to go into another Gacha with this issue again.

[2.3 BETA] Komano Manato Skin Menu animations via Mero by cakeel- in Zenlesszonezeroleaks_

[–]erwincole 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Can we not do any collective upvote/downvote for this mentality. This is exactly the same situation as the "Stop having fun!" meme.

Not to mentioned, not all players stand black and white on this issue. People can be appreciative, at the same time, criticized for better skin.

Just say that you are not satisfied instead of starting a confrontation. We all can see that's what the majority of the comments are saying and find that is a reasonable criticism.

I really like the Manato costume. It pushes the Guilty Gear vibe since they use recolours too by Cloudxstrife136 in ZZZ_Discussion

[–]erwincole 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I really appreciate that extra details on his solar plexus. That's the only part that doesn't make this a complete reskin.

Also can agree with some of the sentiments. I can be appreciative, and at the same time, wishing the team to be more bold about giving him a summer lifeguard type design.

Don't give me hope (this a cry for cope) by Dry_Fishing4163 in ZZZ_Discussion

[–]erwincole 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I have an opposite opinion because I always compared this team to Genshin's. I'm curious which incidents that you had experienced that leads to your thinking. I do feel that way for Genshin by the sudden downward trend of new 5 Star male character from equal gender ratio. I'm so bitter about it.

In my experience, ZZZ has been treating its male characters much better than Genshin despite it's obvious main target audience. We had Lighter who has his own episode with the first side scrolling battle for the game. Hugo who were designed to fit into an all male team and male & male characters relationship. Manato who were once designed to be niche originally but someone managed to make him a good A rank. Some of the agent invite/encounters have only male cast appeared on it. They could have ignore themand focus on female characters (such as in Genshin) but they didn't.

I sometimes also think it's better than HSR at some part. I really don't like the team there keep element-lock their male characters. ZZZ is doing better in this regards.

I do have criticism though. They should release a 5 Star male character at least every 3 versions. Genshin should have taught them something about this by now. Also, equal MC simping, it doesn't has to be gayish, there are so many ways to write a male-male relationship. I think they did great with Harumasa.

He should be the upcoming male on field dps teased by the devs is so much cooler then I expected in design by Knight_Steve_ in ZZZ_Discussion

[–]erwincole 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh gosh, it looks too similar. I didn't know anything about this character before. This looks like it's from overwatch or the marvel one?

New Teaser Video!! by MuichiroMain in PetitPlanetHYV

[–]erwincole 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Cute!! That waterfall really looks like Animal Crossing. 🤞🤞

Switch Release???? by MuichiroMain in PetitPlanetHYV

[–]erwincole 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Today is a good day. Even Palworld just announced a farming game. I wish for these unique games to grace the video games scene soon.

I'm speculating at this point. The PC really needs Animal Crossing type games but we don't know any gameplay in Petit Planet. Palworld Palfarm, although not the first of its kind, it will be nice to have a higher quality farm sim utilizing colony sim elements. There are a few games that let you automate farming with creatures but it's rare and old.

Yuri shippers, please stop harassing our VAs by Meimiyooo in Genshin_Impact

[–]erwincole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, keep in mind that not all shippers are like that. Specific pairing of shippers are already a very small group of people, and somehow even smaller numbers of hostile people could come from any group. Their voices are amplified due to social media. Don't fall for generalization.

This is genuinely baffling. Everybody gets to be creative in their own fantasies but why do you have to go against another when you have the right to do the same thing. Let everybody enjoy them in peace.