AKE and NTE made me wonder if we already reached market saturation in open world gacha games
as in GI and Wuwa already captured most potential player market and too invested to move to other games considering how time consuming to main more than 1 open world gacha. the big launch crowd simply return to their game before and only handful stay/convert to the new game loyal player while not much "fresh player" (never play gacha open world before) remains to capture
AKE is in a weird spot too. They had 1 new banner in this whole month.
My guess is, they wanted to keep the game in the oven for a bit longer but checked they would miss the mark before market saturation and decided to release the game early.
If we're honest they're probably healthy but not making as much money as others managed to.
AKE is in a weird spot in general, and I'm saying this as someone who really enjoys the game (incl. the factory).
It very decidedly doesn't want to follow the usual 3D gacha conventions Genshin essentially created for their niche - we have no real leak community (or leaks, beyond a questionable scant few), pulling beyond a single copy isn't really worth it as there is no "real" endgame that incentivises you to spend and dupes are generally not really much of an upgrade, weapon banner is gated by character pulls and subsequently not something you can focus on, building characters is a one-and-done kinda task so people dont keep farming RNG equipment...
Mind you, I'm not saying all of this is bad, but I feel people who are used to Hoyo games, Wuwa and so on have a different set of expectations nowadays. If I wasn't so into the lore and visual design I'd probably lose interest too, tbh. However, some of the ideas it has are so amazing that I want to see where it goes eventually.
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u/alxanta NIKKE 6h ago edited 6h ago
AKE and NTE made me wonder if we already reached market saturation in open world gacha games
as in GI and Wuwa already captured most potential player market and too invested to move to other games considering how time consuming to main more than 1 open world gacha. the big launch crowd simply return to their game before and only handful stay/convert to the new game loyal player while not much "fresh player" (never play gacha open world before) remains to capture