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[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Must be one of the funniest gacha game announcements yet lol.

In case the tweet gets deleted:

Timeline of events:

 

[LordCBH]

The fuck? Is this legit? Why would anyone spend money on it then lol.

 

[Danjin44]

I can never understand love for F2P gatcha games. I like beautiful character designs in my games as much as the next guy but I want it to be actual game, not F2P gtacha game that I will never access to once the sever gets shutdown…..what the fuck is the point of it?

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

The fuck? Is this legit? Why would anyone spend money on it then lol.

It's legit and ofc they won't. The tweet has gone viral (it already has 1M views).

 

[Davevil]

 

[RagnarokIV]

Is this memes?

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

I can never understand love for F2P gatcha games. I like beautiful character designs in my games as much as the next guy but I want it to be actual game, not F2P gtacha game that I will never access to once the sever gets shutdown…..what the fuck is the point of it?

Tbh, gacha games are very popular in Japan, Korea, China and in a few other Asian countries and not so much in the West. Here's a breakdown with Genshin's revenue on mobile for 2023 by country:

China : 41%
Japan : 23%
USA : 10.9%
South Korea : 6.7%

 

[Danjin44]

Tbh, gacha games are very popular in Japan, Korea, China and in a few other Asian countries and not so much in the West. Here's a breakdown with Genshin's revenue on mobile for 2023 by country:

China : 41%
Japan : 23%
USA : 10.9%
South Korea : 6.7%

I know they are, I’m big fan of Japanese games but their F2P gatcha game I just can never get in to.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

I know they are, I’m big fan of Japanese games but their F2P gatcha game I just can never get in to.

Have you tried Honkai Star Rail? It's a JRPG with turn based combat and one of the better gachas on the market. I think you can still get a free 5 star character till the end of the month. The characters are super well designed and animated (both the waifus and husbandos), and the overall production values are high. Oh and it's also on the PS5 (have put about 8h in it so far).

 

[Danjin44]

Have you tried Honkai Star Rail? It's a JRPG with turn based combat and one of the better gachas on the market. I think you can still get a free 5 star character till the end of the month. The characters are super well designed and animated, and the overall production values are high. Oh and it's also on PS5 (have put about 8h in it so far).

If the game requires to be online only then I don’t want it…..I can get games like Unicorn Overlord with gorgeous characters without need to deal with F2P and gatcha nonsense.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

If the game requires to be online only then I don’t want it…..I can get games like Unicorn Overlord with gorgeous characters without need to deal with F2P and gatcha nonsense.

Well, that's understandable since I don't like online requirements in games as well. However, I do occasionally make exceptions for good games which Star Rail 100% is.

Anyway, like March 7th would say

 

[BlueLyria]

What the fuck
No really, why?

 

[fran.fernandez]

I worked on love live all star doing some performance test and gpu optimization (Japan version) lol

Never played the game though.

 

[HAYA8U5A]

I must have really passed out in January to just wake up on April 1st. Is it still 2024 at least?

 

[peish]

Im sure something got lost in translation, no way this plays out this way

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Im sure something got lost in translation, no way this plays out this way

They probably had a contractual obligation or something to launch a global version else I don't know why in the hell they would go about doing such a weird announcement lol.