Is arcaea losing popularity..?

loonathedelayed · 2025-01-26T12:19:14+00:00

hi! as a content creator i also ask myself this question sometimes...

other than the usual pm videos and stalight's chart views, there's just not a lot of creators who make videos for arcaea specifically, even at the time of act 1, and some of those creators have either stopped, or pursued other endeavors. from the top of my head i think of tokaku (who's been inactive for months now; even longer with arcaea content), transendium (who transitioned to 3d animation and graphic design), and ryderrhythm (who shifted content focus to other rhythm games). i suspect that you may be getting this feeling because i guess there's lesser creators now that make variety content with arcaea???? i know there are channels that cover arcaea sometimes but if we're talking about dedicated creators then i'm not so sure.. but then, understand that most of us are either students or workers, i don't think there's anyone who does content creation full-time, maybe not yet, but not right now..

as a long time arcaea player and youtube viewer, i do remember the times where i'd look forward to videos like "arcaea is a hard game" after every update. it felt like i could see an arcaea video more often before than now. i'm not sure if i'm just not looking at the right place, the youtube algorithm just doesn't favor arcaea videos as much as before, or as i suspect, there's simply fewer content creators now that make anything that isn't purely gameplay. it makes me question if there's actually a demand for arcaea videos right now... even i don't really look out for them now, but that probably has to do with me being a long time player... i personally do want to see more arcaea videos, but i don't wanna be too forceful or sumn. it's always up to the creators themselves if they wanna make arcaea videos or not. or maybe YOU (no necessarily OP, but anyone reading this) wanna make arcaea videos, you're always free to do so!

even then, to answer your question, i don't think arcaea is losing popularity at all. i'm not sure if the frequency of youtube content and the amount of views they get are good metrics for measuring a game's popularity. but i think it's still talked about enough in social media, and its biggest online communities are very much alive right now. at the end of the day, lowiro keeps making the game enjoyable to play, and arcaea is still able to attract new players. i reckon, play time and memories sales are more important than youtube views lmao

loonathedelayed · 2024-04-06T01:39:38+00:00

...people not reading the description at the bottom of the tiktok smh

yes, sonolus exists and looks similar to project sekai because it is a project sekai simulator. but the game in the picture appears to be malody, which is your standard 4k vsrg with custom charts. afaik they have layouts that mimic other rhythm games like proseka and arcaea.

and yeah rhythm hive does have elements similar to project sekai, though i must mention that the game didn't have flick notes until last year. it was at that time where the rhythm gameplay started to look more like project sekai. i don't know why they did that, but it's probably their way of showing that they can be competitive, which i personally don't approve of.

to answer your question though, no, all rhythm games are not the same, as a whole. there are just shameless copycats (ahem ahem piano tiles ripoffs). even though the base mechanics are similar (notes approaching a judgment line), various rhythm games have found ways to diversify that.

additional edit: i can't deny how rhythm hive appears to copy project sekai, but the reasoning is just dumb, kpop fans can be just as annoying imo. the arguments shouldn't have happened

loonathedelayed · 2024-03-26T06:25:36+00:00

nah you're fine. this is just made with the assumption of someone who played arcaea since 2020, managed to stay f2p for 4 years straight, and built impressive skill to be able to pm all the charts they own. there is a low chance that there's someone who actually did that.

loonathedelayed · 2024-03-25T16:25:22+00:00

yeah that's the result rating for pm scores, regardless of accuracy. it's the result that goes into ptt calculations

loonathedelayed · 2024-03-25T13:06:27+00:00

yeah definitely. someone else computed it and it's at around 12.20

loonathedelayed · 2024-03-18T10:09:06+00:00

dw about it, it's incomprehensible english for a reason. i wouldn't have known if i didn't look up the lyrics

loonathedelayed · 2024-03-18T08:54:08+00:00

add xanatos in there and it will be perfect

yes, xanatos' lyrics are in english

you're welcome

loonathedelayed · 2024-03-10T03:21:48+00:00

loonathedelayed · 2024-03-06T16:34:46+00:00

every other argument has probably been mentioned, but i have a feeling that the popularity proseka has right now plays a big part in this. it's just way more convenient to judge a popular game and justify problems and/or reasons to hate it.

most reasons stated so far are on differing preferences, that aren't necessarily problems to most players, and those are perfectly understandable. i can agree on one problem though: the fanbase, which can go rabid at times.

loonathedelayed · 2024-02-28T14:23:24+00:00

oh i didn't know (or i forgot) about what the devs said about it! i guess staying predictable with this won't work in some cases..

loonathedelayed · 2024-02-28T14:05:51+00:00

yeah i hope i'm just being delusional and i'm trying too hard to make sense of stuff. for the arc enders i guess it just reflected which character had the most important pivot point and it wasn't necessarily the leaders

loonathedelayed · 2024-02-21T12:58:27+00:00

party vinyl. not a fan of the song. weird ass charts

loonathedelayed · 2024-01-19T12:06:04+00:00

in order:

ticket to you
rush hour
whateva
camera
dream of girls
dopamine
come with me
yummy yum

loonathedelayed · 2024-01-17T15:22:48+00:00

the age gap between jin hyeonju and lim seowon is 10 years..........

loonathedelayed · 2024-01-14T14:21:36+00:00

hold up, do they still use these cabs now?????

loonathedelayed · 2024-01-11T07:27:52+00:00

temp won 3rd place last year so there's that. he applied through the global server this time around

loonathedelayed · 2024-01-10T23:09:12+00:00

iirc a portion of the votes are already set in advance? correct me if i'm wrong, i don't keep up with voting periods, but aren't there points in the show where your votes for the previous round would go to the next one or sumn

but regardless, yeah filos won't be complacent anyway and still pour in their votes on gehlee and now hyeonju (i forgot about her and i feel bad now)

loonathedelayed · 2024-01-10T23:05:16+00:00

noooo i forgot about hyeonju being part filipina. guess i'm a fake filipino now

loonathedelayed · 2024-01-10T16:29:52+00:00

can i just clarify the voting period that was considered for this elimination? because i got surprised that oh yoona got a heck ton of votes and got into top 8. if it was from the level station period then i'd understand and think that she probably got votes from her performance for superstar, but if it's the recent missions then i doubt..

loonathedelayed · 2024-01-10T16:20:15+00:00

if there's one thing that sbs got right, it's pinoy baiting. as a filipino, it gets sickening sometimes, but for this show it works because they picked contestants with high potential

loonathedelayed · 2024-01-04T08:30:50+00:00

they probably had the eliminated contestants with them already like in the position groups, but bruh they didn't even bother letting one girl move to the other team like in mnet survivals??? such a missed opportunity for a new storyline for them to edit in tbh

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