I keep thinking back to how much sheer free content and story updates Genshin outputs on a consistent 6 week patch cycle vs... the dripfeed in between banners that LADS feeds you as a "here, damn"
theoretically (not promised, just historically) LADS gets 2 major main story updates per year. They are like 2-4 hours long of story per update (with like only 5 minutes of animated cutscenes lol), but it doesn't even feature all of the characters. So the wait between characters is really long. Last main story update was in Jan 2026 and it only featured 2 characters.
depends on what you consider event stories I guess. Since it's an otome game, the "date" stories with each LI are considered separate timelines from the main story, so they're just relationship fluff and don't have much lore or plot development in them at all.
The limited 5-star cards/dates have recently been anywhere between 30 min to 60 min of a single contained story, with 4 min of that an animated cutscene. Each LI gets about 8 of those a year.
Then 1 of the special myth events which can be 2 hours, with ~8 min of cutscenes. (though, looks like they're about to drop that down to only 3 myths a year)
Then you can pay for 4 star dates from their bi-monthly battle pass. (about 30 min, and each LI gets 2 a year) These have no animated cutscenes and are *only* available with cold hard cash, can't be earned with in game resources.
And, of course, all the dates are limited-release paid content. So if we want any voiced story content at all outside of the main story updates, the only source is the gacha pool.
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u/bewareofmoocow 9h ago
I keep thinking back to how much sheer free content and story updates Genshin outputs on a consistent 6 week patch cycle vs... the dripfeed in between banners that LADS feeds you as a "here, damn"
Even without the Valko debacle, fucking deserved