@Tamamo it's not even just the kneeling to jews part
Nips lack ambition in general. FGO was the highest selling gacha for how many years? and all they did was make musouslop trash and arcade shit
Meanwhile Mihoyo took a huge risk with Genshin and became the most profitable gaming company in the world. And even now other Chinese developers are investing in higher production games while Japan is still on their JPEGs collectors huffing their own farts.
@Meemoo They biggest problem is that every small to mid sized studio was bought up by Bamco/Squeenix/KoeiTecmo where creativity goes to die because they make games for shareholders and not gamers.
All the studio's that made those interesting PS1/PS2 games have been either bought up or died in the transition to the HD era.
@Tamamo Sony PlayStation, too. I think there are a ton of factors contributing to how safe and censorious JP devs choose to be, but yeah, they definitely killed their own creativity. Japan is lagging behind now as their corporate culture self-immolates, yet they're all too stubborn to change and adapt. Or at least, they're adapting incorrectly, like as they eat up the poison that comes from Commiefornia and ESG. Meanwhile Korea and China start to take more of the metaphorical pie, even in manga. In terms of PNG collectors, Japan's is not as risque as Azur Lane and Last Origin due to all the censorship happiness.
A shame, but... this is the opportunity for some Japanese devs to strike out AGAINST the grain of their own country and win it big and put Japan back on the market... if they have the balls to. Otherwise, I think eventually Korea and China will take over the eastern entertainment market. @Meemoo
@Cayhr@Tamamo it's crazy to me how Japan has the most freedom out of the 3 yet they still choose to self censor. like gooks and chinks would fucking KILL just to afford that kind of freedom in development. what's wrong with nips?
@Meemoo Sqeenix should just fucking die. The last decent thing that came out of them was Nier Automata and all they've done with the success is remastering Nier 1 and whoring out 2B for collabs because they don't have the balls to re-release the Drakengard games.
Oh and they've practically destroyed every studio under Eidos with total mismanagement, incompetence and extreme corporate greed.
@Tamamo I will admit I've lost a little bit of respect for Yoko Taro because he chose to milk the Nier brand instead of seeking to create another title with his newfound success. he would've had an easy time convincing the committee at square to give him full control of a new game if he wanted, but instead we got 2 shitty gachas and a bunch of collabs.
@Cayhr@Meemoo They also just keep shooting themselves in the foot when they have something good on the hands when it comes to launching globally.
While Kancolle banned foreign IP's, Azur Lane launched globally and now Kancolle is almost forgotten. PSO2 launched 8 years too late in the west and they fucking censored it and also forgot to launch it in the EU. MMO fans were looking forward to Blue Protocol and they sold out the western players to Amazon (who has yet to actually launch the game btw). One of their few non PNG collector gacha's that makes allot of money, Heaven Burns Red, has yet to have a global launch.
@namedoesntfi@Meemoo I wanna see the faces of their "ethics department" when they present a game where your party consists of a dragon, a sister fucker (you), a pedo, a cannibal and a shota. :doge_laugh:
@Cayhr@Meemoo@Tamamo ngl I'm sure actual japanese gacha game devs are seething at the fact that a korean ip/chinese published product blue archive has become the 3rd wave. 1st being touhou and 2nd being kancolle.
Comiket getting taken over by BA will forever be a shame upon them.
@Tamamo it's pretty upsetting how only the safe directors get a say on games there nowadays. Nomura is probably the only autist at square left actually pushing for crazy and new experiences but he needs someone to tard wrangle him really hard so he doesn't fuck up. Yoshi is the favorite child there now but he loves ESG tranny dick and is a one-trick pony that can't try new things.
@Meemoo >Yoshi is the favorite child there now but he loves ESG tranny dick and is a one-trick pony that can't try new things. Really? :cirno_what3: @Tamamo
@Tamamo@namedoesntfi old square did. FF6 has a playable main cast character, Edgar, who loves woman. in the early game he had to hold himself back from accepting a 10 year old girl's marriage proposal :kekw:
@Cayhr@Tamamo yeah. FF16 has gay couples and FFXIV now has a tranny EN VA. the MMO itself has been following the exact same schedule with the exact same content cycle and jobs haven't seen any serious changes in 5+ years because he's too scared of trying new things.
@weissrespecter@Cayhr@Tamamo yeah true. they all still play the same as during SHB and even that is not enough because they keep removing and simplifying shit :noa_disgust:
I've been spamming 1 1 1 1 1 1 as a healer for so many years now that I've become sick of the role and switched to DPS. YoshitPiss is a hack
@LolikingSama@Cayhr@Meemoo@supersid333 You're gonna need a VPN anyway for the steam version anyway because of, fucking, course, its geo blocked because Japanese retardation.
@Tamamo@LolikingSama@Cayhr@supersid333 if it's anything like DMM then the geoblocking only applies to countries the nips' remembered to block. like for example americans and SEAnigs need to VPN to play Priconne, while I can login and play without one just fine.
@Meemoo@weissrespecter@Cayhr WoW did the same shit with the wrath of the bitch king expansion in the name of "bring the player, not the class". Every class got an AOE skill no matter how dumb, unique class skills where given to other classes, reagents removed, etc.
I fucking hated that shit and was it one of the reasons i quit.
@Tamamo@Cayhr@weissrespecter SHB was our WoTLK basically. they removed aggro as a mechanic by making it so only tanks have to manage it, simplified all healers into having 1 DPS skill, removed DPS stance from tanks and healers which removed any depth the combat had. Endwalker was even worse because devs started eliminating every single job's identity one by one. they removed all conal AOEs and made them circular on a universal level, removed a whole spec from a healer that let them give out shields so they could become a pure healer, and removed even minor things from DPS jobs like Samurai not having a skill that makes their next attack deal more damage (which gave the job identity because people loved to build up towards that big damage strike)
the game is not in a good place currently. I'd say EW is arguably the worst expansion yet.
@Goalkeeper@Cayhr@Tamamo@weissrespecter it's a crime what they did to astro, all those unique card effects erased in favor of 3/5% damage buffs. for me it was scholar getting gutted so badly I switched to something else. I miss having an actual pet with a mind of it's own and all the DPS skills I had in stormblood. SHB ruined it, and EW let it bleed out and gave some of it's old quirks to the new healer job :emoji_seethe:
@weissrespecter@Cayhr@Tamamo "GOODBYE PATCH 6.3" i scream as i throw another Samurai Midare (M-100 firecracker) into a group of people (AoE version, Dawntrail early access (4th shoha)) on New Years Eve. Damn i didnt know, that xiv added 2minute screams into the game. I quickly apply more stickers to my forehead (8 gcds per midare, kasha gekko yuki glow in the dark) and look for my next targeted buff window. Anyway my crit luck must have been pretty good as everyone around me popped their self mit. "BET YOU WISH STILL HAD PERFECT DODGE" i yell at them as i throw my Ogi Namikiri (bagpack full of plastic exposives) into the car some of them got into. THIS MUST BE A NONSTANDARD CLEAR FOR SURE i think to myself. they know nothing of my kaiten pain. Game must have lagged or something because i woke up in the quicksands (my hospital).KENKI LOSS FUCK Turns out that not only i got a huge GOOGLE DOC REDDIT POST on me, from partyfinder roaches but also that Enix (judge) wants to drop a perma ban (life sentence) on me. "BUT I DIDN´T SAY THE N-WORD IN CHAT" i keep telling him, but apparently that is not a good defence. Oh well seems like perma ban it is. Not to worry tho .. i told my static that it seems like the judge got my parse blacklisted so he is their target now. SO SLOT MACHINE IS STILL WINNABLE . UAR DOWNNNNN!!!! CRYSTAL 1#
Japan: Puts anyone with talent in a postion where that talent is stamped out like a dying star
China: Hey you have made several cheap indie games for years now, here's a budget take the idea from your first game and fully realize it. Which is literally what happened with this:
The problem is they "promoted" Yoshi-p to the square enix board so he isn't allowed to step a toe out of line and do anything risky or he goes from being their savior to out on his ass. They basically gave him golden shackles. Japanese companies are fucked like that. They take anyone with a lick of talent and square peg round hole them.
@supersid333@Meemoo@Cayhr@Tamamo The gameplay of 14 is actually just praying to god the DPSes didn't buy level skips and actually learned stack up/split apart markers so they don't get themselves or, worse, everyone else killed
@Meemoo@Tamamo@Cayhr@weissrespecter Wait, they curbed aggro as a mechanic? Isn't like half of the gameplay of an MMO riding the fine line between lots of damage and so much damage the boss decides you're the problem?
@Cayhr@Meemoo@Tamamo@weissrespecter Sad thing is that it's still probably one of the better MMO's on the market by nature of 90% of them being god fucking awful natively.
@supersid333@Meemoo@Cayhr@weissrespecter For WoW, aggro management for DPS was pretty much non exsistant in WoTLK while in the previous xpac Burning Crusade you needed to use agro dump skills and/or hold back DPS because if you stole agro from the tank and the boss turned around to wards the rest of the raid it was GG.
The same thing happened in Tera at some point. Tanking used to be a delicate balance of being aggressive to keep agro and careful to avoid damage with Lancer. Then they ruined tanking forever by introducing the Brawler class and making aggro management non existent and tanking completely braindead.
@Meemoo@Tamamo@Cayhr@weissrespecter idk why, but seeing that and the country preferences to cod and valorant over stuff like csgo And their shows being fast pace now instead of taking their time unlike in older anime and tv shows They value convience like the us has been doing since the 50's Pretty much the quote of sseth saying bethesda's playerbase consist of nothing but dads in their mid thirties who soypog over craters can be applied to japanese now Hell I remember Russian cs player who went to Japan and went to a net cafe for japanese csgo matches didn't find any except Chinese/Russian matches because everyone plays valorant due to probably not wanting to spend hours remembering spray patterns, movement, and nade line ups for competitive play or casual
@Azur_Fenix@Meemoo@Tamamo I mean Blue Archive has been a top 10 profit gacha game for a minute now. It's not like growing or shrinking a character's head changes the amount of effort the animators put in, it's just cheap animations.
@Azur_Fenix@supersid333@Meemoo@Tamamo I rather play bloons td6 than Star rail Hell I would say bloons has higher production value considering the insane amount math involved for the higher tier monkeys and interest calculations
@supersid333@Meemoo@Tamamo my point is, they are being put done. We are talking player perception. Doesn't matter how highly animated the chibi is, people will look at BA and say Star rail, who do you think most people will say is the higher effort game??