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General Gacha Revenue Monthly Report (August 2026)

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u/Putrid-Butterfly334 8h ago

Fgo grandpa still got it 11 years later
Also the hololive game making bank is actually insane to me

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u/Ok_Lawfulness1019 7h ago

dont underestimate hololive fans, they've been dumping money to these girls even before the game

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u/Unlikely-Lawyer-5683 7h ago

atleast they spend money for real girls ig

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u/Faustias 7h ago

and those real girls roll for their co-worker's banners ayyylmao

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u/Seraphine_KDA 5h ago

i am pretty sure they dont spend real money on their own game not even as a business expense all those top up are for sure made with a company card.

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u/Quanpro198 5h ago

One talent (Irys) just complainted to another talent (Flare) that she has been spending too much money on the game. That's her own money

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u/Seraphine_KDA 5h ago

and they can tell whatever they want. it just makes not economical sense. since the own Vtubers activelly playing and pulling on the game is the biggest marketing of the game.

ofc they won't tell you if they get free pulls. They need to maintain the illusion. is a fucking idol company. with their own idol game.

they get told what they can and cannot say. i like vtubers too but please dont believe they are any less corporate than a korean idol. is a job and they have bosses.

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u/ThisManNeedsMe 4h ago

But they do tell us though. Some of the girls mention they get a monthly allowance from the game devs. It's not enough to do some the crazy rolls some of them have done though. If you watched the streams a lot of them have to cover the screen to buy more gems. You also had someone like Hajime only buy the cheapest one since her iPad account wouldn't let her buy more. Her chat was making fun of her saying she's a baby that has parental control on her account.

The girls have mentioned many times that they're aren't forced to do or say anything. A lot of them say some wild shit and a handful of them have been very critical about the company and management. Calli went on full strike earlier this year because of manngement.

Don't know why people think that Cover controls them like puppets. Yeah they're a corpo, and there's some restrictions but some people see the word Idol and think that they can't cough without approval from higher ups.

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u/Quanpro198 5h ago edited 4h ago

she's playing offline and complaining offline. Yes maybe they do get free pulls. Doesn't mean she wasn't using her own money this time

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u/dearth_of_passion 4h ago

Absolutely every statement a corporate vtuber makes was vetted by corporate. Yes, even the rabid horny posting on Twitter is part of the character the actress signed up to play. New talents help develop the concept for the characters (they audition and get hired months before debut), but they are playing a character.

It's wild that people don't understand this. Those contracts are iron clad, there's no way they're allowed to make public statements, in-character as a rep of the company, that aren't vetted by corporate.

They can say they're given free reign all they want - saying that is almost certainly part of the contract too.

When you hear about a vTuber being reprimanded or terminated for "damaging trust" or "harming the image of the company", it means they said shit without permission.

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u/Quanpro198 4h ago edited 4h ago

Holy conspiracy theorist. Yes they can, they are not nearly as strict as you imagining. Especially to these normal daily life shit.

Also show me an example of a Hololive vtuber getting reprimanded or terminated for "damaging trust" or "harming the image of the company". Talents did complain about the company on stream multiple times and nothing happened to them.

You clearly don't know shit, so don't act like you do

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u/Fivior 1h ago

It must suck to be as jaded as you. This isn't true at all. Sure they have guidelines but they also have plenty of freedom to make their own content and generate their own fanbase.

u/DragoSphere 3h ago

they get told what they can and cannot say.

Then they sure can tell a hell of a lot considering how many complain about the company's management

They spend literal hours on stream, every day, talking. Sometimes up to twelve hours. Many times way into the hours past midnight and into the next morning. Do you really think they have staff whispering in their ears the whole time, and maintain strict adherence to draconian "character" requirements for those tens of thousands of hours that add up over years?

IRL K-idols or even J-idols spend an hour or two every couple days at best speaking to the public in events or a broadcast, in person, with staff fully present. This is not the case with streamers

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u/Peshurian 2h ago

They get some sort of allowance iirc but if they really wanna get a character then they have to pull out the wallet.

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u/According-Wash-4335 6h ago

I wouldn't say spending a hundred bucks just so a girl can notice you is better....

u/shoddyhero 2h ago

I don't really see how donating to streamers is somehow more commendable.

u/Atzumo 1h ago

Don't you go to concerts? Would you say paying for a ticket its as scummy as paying for gacha rolls? You think streamers, or any kind of content creator, gets food on their table by sheer anger alone? How can you not understand the concept of giving money to people to show appreciation for their content and to hope for more? I don't buy physical CDs because I need them, I stream that shit, I do to show support and to ask for more. Gacha players truly are braindead.

u/4k4ne kaleidoshill 3m ago

these folks just fundamentally do not understand the concept of throwing money at things you enjoy or are passionate about lol

i spend money on gadgets i like, swipe on characters banners i like, buy merch i like, buy albums i like, subscribe to memberships of talents i like, and throw superchats at talents i like. i support the things i like and want to see more of, its as simple as that

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u/Just_Breakfast6327 6h ago

Do you think the girls get a cut based on their banner? I feel like people will be more willing to spend if they think their Oshi is getting some.

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u/Arras01 5h ago

the banners probably not, there is an ingame subscription for each girl that they get a cut of tho 

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u/GeForce_GTX_1050Ti 5h ago

imo no, really. devs are just making the game based off their likeness. COVER is the one getting cash from them copyrights and game revenue

they may get a cut on voice acting work and the livestreams though

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u/Qules_LP 4h ago

That isn't true. They do receive a cut, though the percentage is not well publically known.

Here my source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Hololive/comments/1v4mraq/calli_confirming_the_girls_do_get_a_portion_of/

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u/witherACE 4h ago

Even to the graduated member?

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u/ThisManNeedsMe 4h ago

Probably not since all of the graduated members that appear are just small little cameos. You can't spend money on them.

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u/Qules_LP 4h ago

If they are in the game and can be spent on, then most likely yes. If they aren't, then no. I can't find the source, but I've heard that talents that were gone before the development and negotiations of the project will sadly receive nothing.

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u/Qules_LP 4h ago

Yes they do make get a cut though how much is not publically known.

u/One-Professional-246 42m ago

banner probably not, but its confirmed they do get a cut from the membership in game.

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u/ThisManNeedsMe 7h ago

Already spent a few hundred bucks this year on merch for my Oshi and her birthday isn't even here yet. That doesn't include various other Hololive merch I've bought plus going to the EN concert. Us fans know how to spend.

Though I haven't spent anything on the game. My reasoning is, why spend money on the gacha when I can spend money on merch.

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u/WarmasterChaldeas 6h ago

Holo fans will spend lots of money on aka supas. This is no different

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u/xyzArcadian 7h ago

I don't want to see no more complaints about Hololive banners because it's clearly working

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u/ArchusKanzaki 5h ago

They kinda need to do that with the banners since they got 54 girls. Most games with fixed cast (like RevueStarlight) did not start with 54 SSR. Holodori is abit on the intense side but I think people are learning to just ignore gacha until it's the member you want.

u/holodoriplayer 3h ago

The average person complaining has never played a rhythm gacha and even those who have never played PJSK which is probably the only actual competition right now (Our Notes pending). Most of the PJSK players I know have talked about Holodori being a beautiful flower field in comparison for most things.

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u/GeForce_GTX_1050Ti 7h ago

People have dumped hundreds for a single line of chat or tickets to their virtual concert

this ain't nothing lol

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u/Any_Economics_6166 6h ago

fgo is also mainly a mobile game

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u/Putrid-Butterfly334 6h ago

Yeah and 41 million dollars 11 years after service is still an equally insane amount

u/Lunar1211 3h ago

They released 3 swimsuit banners in one month they were gonna be rich (I even spent like 60 just to get my favorite and said never again)

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u/SosHol 6h ago

And here i am watching sw's 12th bd going down the drain 😭

u/Amphax 5m ago

By SW you mean Summoners War right ?

Yeah nobody seems to talk about that game much anymore.  Still has a loyal following but it's slipping on the charts....

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u/Signal-Replacement-3 4h ago

grandpa is struggling quite a lot considering he had to release 4 summer 5stars to get that revenue,plus anniversary, back in the day it was only 2 summer 5stars,plus anniversary

u/posidon99999 Blue Archive, Azur Lane 2h ago

There are a lot of shops in japan just dedicated to hololive fan merch. I'm not surprised

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u/dalzmc GFL2/Nikke/Holodori/Genshin/HSR/ZZZ/Wuwa/Priconne/PJSK 5h ago

Yeah it’s here to stay, at least until all the hololive members get their first limited card.

I knew it was going to make bank. I kept saying “rhythm games that have no true powercreep sell entirely off character attachment, and hololive has insane levels of character attachment”

I still didn’t think it would do this well - but that’s because nobody could’ve predicted the insane banner/event pace and ridiculously low income lmao.

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u/lordsfavor10 4h ago

If they have it low, ask Holomems to play it, make them pull cards, it's basically free ads/promo lol

u/20DollarBJ 1h ago

I imagine it’s just the launch buff, they’ve been releasing 16 limited gacha units in the span of a month and a half, and the game has no 50/50 with a 200 pity. Even some of the talent themselves are hitting 200 without a single limited unit, so I expect it to either stay or drop because of the crazy rate of limited units where people will only wait and pull for their oshi.