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General Gacha Revenue Monthly Report (August 2026)

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u/IamBurden 7h ago

Now that I think about it, its kinda crazy just how much Genshin can pull since they usually release 1 new unit per patch

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u/Beelzebuuuuub3 Genshin/HSR/Epic7 7h ago

even if they release no units in a month, it will still gain a lot cuz of bp and welkin and they have millions of players buying those monthlies.

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u/LaplaceZ 6h ago

Don't forget miliastra, the skins are pulling their weight.

u/Vyragami I quit gacha why am I here 1h ago

And old characters still has plenty of fans who would pull for cons.

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u/masternieva666 5h ago

Yeah genshin is the only gacha that can do a old rerun character and still make money.

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u/Signal-Replacement-3 4h ago

genshin gave up the idea of a patch without a new 5 star 3 years ago, July-August 2023 was the last Genshin patch with all reruns and no new 5 stars

u/Meaon_Ria 3h ago

Bruh they are Brave enough for a Mizuki + Sigewinne banner and still making near 30 M

u/TheYango 54m ago

The 6-week patch cycle means that sometimes the monthly revenue charts only capture the final week of a new character's banner + 2nd half rerun banner. So even if they do a new character every patch, sometimes monthly revenue doesn't always reflect revenue from the new character (since most banner revenue is heavily frontloaded).

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u/GingsWife 4h ago

Welkin alone would sweep half the charts

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u/kuraokami89 7h ago

The whole august only one new character release, even us was shocked 😳

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u/Accomplished-Pie-206 6h ago

I rolled and many others for Alyosha…

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u/kuraokami89 6h ago

We rolled for Ronova 🤣

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u/GraveXNull 7h ago

Even funnier, since Odette ain't really that popular.

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u/jibbycanoe 5h ago

She may not be super loved as a character but she's meta af. She's like the Ineffa of 7.x and people still remember skipping her only to end up wanting her for teams.

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u/haoxinly 4h ago

Like kazuha

u/SanjiInHSR_66 Stella Sora/MLBB/NIKKE/ZZZ/Hi3 1st part ONLY! 2h ago

She immortalized Cyno, I know there's a buff here and there on IT but Cyno became a bomb in my IT run lol

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u/Rare_Marionberry782 5h ago

Odette is great, cuz she works perfectly even at C0 very cheap unit to recruit into the roster, no extra spending required for long time players, just continue our monthly Welkin Moons and BPs. We waiting to see the Tsaritsa performance come Christmas.

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u/haoxinly 4h ago

Also doesn't really need her weapon, the craftable works fine

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u/Rare_Marionberry782 4h ago

Exactly, I had an old extra Jade Cutter which works perfectly on her lol, just ignore the wrong color scheme 🫣

u/kzzzzzzzzzz28 3h ago

just ignore the wrong color scheme 🫣

Give her the popsicle skin.

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u/lolpanda91 6h ago

She is like the center piece of this years meta. It was clear her banner will do amazing.

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u/kuraokami89 6h ago

Odette not even popular in JP ranking, Tsaritsa / Valeriy/Dain/Pantalone was popular in JP, I think Noy was 5th

u/Historical_Yak2148 3h ago

i dont think so, shes quite popular, at least in CN

basically there is a thing called milestone on CN appstore, which is Douyin>Tencent video> QQ Music, CN players tend to get the hours that the game surpass those app on appstore to estimate the earning and the actual ranking of the banner (because those app earning are stable).

surpassing QQ Music is a quite successful banner, surpassing Tencent video is already a big feat, surpassing Douyin is a level belong to Genshin, Arknights, LaDs and HSR only (and maybe Naruto lmao).

since Jan 2026 we got:

- Columbina 1 + Ineffa 2 (number of banner runs): #3 CN, surpass Douyin

- Zibai 1 + Neu 4: #5 CN, surpass QQ Music

- Varka 1 + Flins 2: #6 CN, surpass QQ Music

- Skirk 2 + Escoffier 2: #6 CN, surpass none of those 3

- Linnea + Chasca 3: #5 CN, surpass QQ Music

- Lauma 2 + Nefer 2 + chronicle banner: #10 CN, surpass none of those 3

- Nicole + Durin 2: #4 CN, surpass Tencent Video

- Lohen+ Mavuika 3: #7 CN, surpass none

- Sandrone + Citlali 3: #3, surpass Tencent Video

- Columbina 2 + Raiden 7: #16 CN, surpass none

- Odette + Arle 4: #5 CN, surpass Tencent Video

Odette is actually one of the most successful Genshin banner this year, at least in CN

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u/Saahil_08 GI/ZZZ/HSR/Endfield 5h ago

My guy someone in our discord spent over $300 just to c6 Alyosa

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u/Accomplished-Pie-206 6h ago

Well I rolled solely for Alyosha and he was a 4 star new unit. I wouldn’t say they only do 1 unit per patch.

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u/jibbycanoe 5h ago

There are dozens of you! Hopefully you ended up getting him tho. Pulling for 4 stars is risky business. I only got him C2 on the way to C2 Odette.

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u/haoxinly 4h ago

Someone got C6 Odette before C6 Alyosha

u/MegaAltarianite 1h ago

Many older characters are still very relevant, so rerun banners are still popular.

u/Ehtnah 6m ago

That's what happen when you don't totaly forget every other player minus straight white male who loves big boobs shaking on their screen h24.

You have cool dude would just want to play for fun, or thoses who want a cool story, or let's be extra daring female player or queer/gay or children. Instead of catering exclusively to one niche player you (lie about being mixt but that an other story) try to attract every possible customer so you can have money from a lot of people, instead of milking the same customers as all the other dev.

That's just a lie of course hoyo is hoyo so they are as catering to the same players only in zzz or genshin, buuut it's less obvious in genshin.

In tdlr you attract more people, hence have more money, when you don't be to obvious about loving only one kind of customer while hating all the other.