It's deeply vindicating as an OG Arknights player to see it outperforming Endfield. I want both to do well, but I'm so happy Arknights is going so strong.Â
Hard for a boycott to do well when most of the playerbase is alright with the changes. There's something to be argued that the new system is more predatory in how it encourages you to roll but the argument of it being worse statistically is pretty dead in the water once they actually revealed the rebate amount.
To be fair they probably left the rebate amount ambiguous to see what level of backlash their was and if they could get away with less but given how the numbers look I'm almost certain the 40 rebates for every 160 pulls was their original plan.
Somewhat, but they did initially say there was gonna be rebates and juding by how the math lines up I'd pretty safely bet that 40 was their initial baseline (statistically better at all points up to like 800 pulls, specifically at 200 exactly where with less rebates old system was better). They definitely were seeing if they could get away with less though.
The boycott have failed in the first place when everyone rolled over for the new changes like cattle âfor the sake of the girlsâ
Also, this is the month which supposed to give them big money after apparently last month is just ânobody love Makoto. Everyone saving up for IbukiââŚ. And itâs only a small bump overall last monthâs.
I wouldn't call it a fake boycott, but it wasn't 100% effective either; these events usually surpass 10 million, yet this one didn't even reach 8 million. If the trend continues, the next one will barely scrape by to hit 5 million. As for the claim that it performs better on PCâthatâs only half-true; at least on Steam, BA can't even crack the top 20 best-sellers list, unlike WuWa, ZZZ, or Uma. On Steam, BA can't even outsell indie games that aren't on sale. BA didn't drop to zero, but it certainly sent a clear message that a large portion of the player base has either left or stopped spending.
I want both to succeed but AK outperforming Endfield is absolutely necessary to send the correct message so developers realise they need to save the game.
And they still could have action elements to it. Make it full blown gacha dungeon defenders. They already kind of have it with the smaller base defense modes.
I mean, you have to keep in mind this is mobile only, and we already know that like 60-70% of endfields revenue is on PC. It would be interesting to see how much of that AK cash will now bleed from this graph as people stop using mobile/emulators and move to the pc client. I know I have.
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u/TransparentWolf 9h ago
Blue Archive beat Endfield đ