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Sony's Fate/Grand Order #1 grossing mobile game worldwide in Aug, dethrones MS in JP
- Thread starter Nirolak
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What? FEH is good and a thousand better than most mobile games.
Ally of Justice
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I know, that's how I play it, but it would be nice to have it update automaticaly and be officially supported.
Pureauthor
Member
It's functionally a single player RPG with gacha attached. And grinding. So much grinding.
The gacha rates are complete and utter ass, but the flipside is that the game is perfectly winnable purely with F2P stuff. Primary draw is probably the story (and waifus/husbandos of course).
what? lol
If you google/google images certain historical figures (i.e: Nero Claudius), you'll actually find the top hits are the Fate servants. Its already slowly happening!
Foxy the Fox
Member
Today I found a Gilgamesh with a NP at lvl 5.
Whales are dangerous stuff.
I also plan to give it 80$ by the end of the year because of much I play it everyday.
The FATE GO GAF discord is something else
Whales are dangerous stuff.
I also plan to give it 80$ by the end of the year because of much I play it everyday.
The FATE GO GAF discord is something else
Yes, though those would be comparatively small.
The Chinese numbers are pretty solid though with the game.
Abilidebob
Member
Considering the quality of the competition congrats to Aniplex and Nasu. Those FGO spinoffs are going to make them so much more dosh as well.
Edit: Lol on the Riyo comic. This will happen one day - other gacha games have these type of events, Magia Record has a non-live PvP mode (Mirror) and it's consistent with the franchise (Holy Grail fighting)
Edit2: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...as-a-hit-that-s-as-big-as-pokemon-go-in-japan
Edit: Lol on the Riyo comic. This will happen one day - other gacha games have these type of events, Magia Record has a non-live PvP mode (Mirror) and it's consistent with the franchise (Holy Grail fighting)
Edit2: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...as-a-hit-that-s-as-big-as-pokemon-go-in-japan
Unknown Soldier
Member
Fate/Grand Order has not that much to do with Sony.
Aniplex appears to be the distributor or publisher outside JP region. Which means the NA region. Also Aniplex's A-1 Pictures provided the short animated intro, and they currently are animating Fate/Apocrypha.That's just about it really.
Aniplex appears to be the distributor or publisher outside JP region. Which means the NA region. Also Aniplex's A-1 Pictures provided the short animated intro, and they currently are animating Fate/Apocrypha.That's just about it really.
FinaruDensetsu
Member
I need more gifs of the real life Guda cosplayer doing silly things.
Aniplex is owned by Sony
They get them from the vendors themselves. They're literally the analytics company for 80%+ of the Top 100.
Unknown Soldier
Member
I know that lol
My point was that Sony is not the developer nor is it their property. Delight Works is the developer and obviously the property is licensed from Type-Moon. It's not "Sony's" game though they get a nice chunk of change from being the publisher and distributor.
durrrrrrrrrr
Member
FGO has no US flag in a worldwide chart, probably because the localization team is murdering NA with content drought
SpaceDrake
Member
There is a good chance FEH will show up on the September rankings - the Choose Your Legends heroes and their related events (including the "pick one free" event) were so popular it pushed the game into the #4-5 spots for a good two weeks in America alone. It's fallen a bit since then, though now they're doing a banner with some fan-favorite Tellius units (including some really comically powerful versions of Elincia and Nephenee) and in a week or so, an event with the Tellius Black Knight as an F2P reward will drop, which should help drive engagement significantly.
In short, September should be a good month for FEH, although I can't help but feel that they need to step up their narrative engagement and whatnot if they want to begin seriously challenging the thrones of games like Granblue or F/GO. The more recent story chapters have been more interesting but are still pretty simple, and the events tend to be very narrative-light as well.
Anyway, I'm not surprised at the F/GO stuff - it just dominated the charts in Japan all month. That's the power of Umu In Swimsuit for you, I guess.
I may have an Umu In Swimsuit myself
I do still wonder just what the deal with Type-Moon looks like and how much of this money they and the guest artists for the Servants and Craft Essences (equipment) truly see - TM still owns the actual Fate intellectual property, so I would imagine they get some royalties, but I wonder how much.
SpaceDrake
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I may possibly have spent Real Dollars trying to get Nero.
And then got her with a final free yolo ticket.
Totally different markets, my man.
Though on that note, it is a little amazing how Microsoft has, like, zero meaningful presence in the mobile market right now.