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[Nintendo] Mobile game Dragalia Lost, 50 Million in Revenue since September launch
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I pay just for wrymprints, I need all the Eldwaters to make my three star husbandos five stars.
Kind of enjoy this game a bit more than Granblue though maybe its the shiny Shiny new new factor.
Kind of enjoy this game a bit more than Granblue though maybe its the shiny Shiny new new factor.
I like the ARPG aspect. The difference between Winning/Losing those Expert battles comes more to skill than stats.
Glad people are enjoying it. I ended up dropping off after awhile cause I couldn keep up with the events and that feeling of always being behind annoyed me. Though for those that are current their constant release of stuff must feel awesome
I have started saving tickets and wyrmite after spending everything on the Halloween event (saving for Christmas exclusives). In 1 month, I have accumulated over 100 summons from all the freebies. You having bad luck doesn't change that fact.
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I'm actually curious about the breakdown of spending- are people motivated to spend on the monthly packs/increased stamina/increased rewards, or the gacha itself w/ limited time banners, etc., or is it a bit of both?
Obviously the answer is a little more complex than that since the monthly uncap packs also give gacha currency, but are in turn fed by shitty rates increasing the chance you'll need an uncap or two to get the most out of a median amount of luck, and the abysmal rates + pricing to begin with probably also help in making those monthly packs look 'good' in comparison for absolute value.
I only do 20ish pulls per banner with wyrmite (and only spend wyrmite on that + 2 smithwyrms) and have 12.8k (so that's... 85 pulls) banked currently. Not to mention 21 free single tickets unused, as well as the extra 10 ticket they gave out due to the rates mistake. I have also not done the vast majority of adventurer stories I have access to, nor have I done more than a couple stages of hard mode, so there's a lot left untapped there.
I will note that I've been extremely, extremely lucky with dragons lately (less so with adventurers, though I have gotten two 5*s), so reasonably people who are less lucky will have to pull more. But since you're talking in terms of 20-30 per banner, which is exactly what I do, I can't quite agree with this.
Yeah I'd play this on Switch for sure. Like... Every damn day.
Crazy. Played it for about a week and thought it was pretty boring, but good for Nintendo on that whale revenue.
Has the game released in Korea? Because if so, I'm all in on
"55 Billion Won For Dragalia Lost"
I think you're always gonna have people who go extremely hard on 10 pulls, but I think it's probably more the refresh and monthly packs that drives casual whaling, yeah?
I'd think unbinding 5* T3s in particular would be attractive but then again, you don't really need that for much currently. Not that it'd stop people from going for it, or buying that and just saving it so they'd have the instant unbinds on hand if they ever need them.
My playtime of this mobile game has gone up significantly, particularly because they released a character I very much identify with, and the fact you can play as any of them instead of just the main character in combat is very appealing.
Will be real interesting to see what Nintendo does with Mario Kart Tour. Depending on how it's monetized it could be huge.
They didnt even release FEH worldwide yet. Super Mario Run was tho.
I spent $8 (two rounds of weekly diamonds) to do daily pulls. Got a bunch of garbage 3* Wyrmprints--that combined with the super grindiness and waifu harem bait nonsense made me drop it about a month ago.
Sign me up for a 3DS/Switch sequel thats a traditional RPG, but this mobile stuff ain't it.
Sign me up for a 3DS/Switch sequel thats a traditional RPG, but this mobile stuff ain't it.
Mario kart seems unappealing as a gacha game. Like how to balance 3* karts vs 5* karts? What about laaaaaag?
I quit playing a few weeks ago despite enjoying the gameplay and having a lot of luck with 5* units with no money sunk into it (I think I had a 5* in every element). I'd never really played a gacha game before though and the daily commitments to the bonuses and stuff was becoming a drag and taking too much of my time, I felt... I did like the main story missions and the special events, but constantly doing Avenue of Power etc was such a drag.
I didn't bother with them much. I just use the free three skip tickets daily if there are no new content. I do try to play with all the new characters once so I did mostly got all the daily bonus till now even if it's the beginner or standard bonuses. Game is still OK so far, let's see if it will last me till S2 of the main story.
Damn, doing well. I've stuck with this longer than I'd anticipated as a gacha skeptic. Play at least a little bit every day and have gotten lucky with my rolls. Def a grind but it's designed for short sessions over the long term, if I hit a wall I can put it down.
Spent some money but game is easy and playable without, you can stock up a nice amount of currency and free pull tickets for when you need them. Low drop rates help with self control too. The story is pure fluff IMO and there's F2P mechanics in there, if you can't deal with that at all I wouldn't recommend, but I still dig the core gameplay and systems which goes a long way. Will be interesting to see how it evolves once we start having to build multi-element teams, lots of room for additional depth depending on the roadmap.
Spent some money but game is easy and playable without, you can stock up a nice amount of currency and free pull tickets for when you need them. Low drop rates help with self control too. The story is pure fluff IMO and there's F2P mechanics in there, if you can't deal with that at all I wouldn't recommend, but I still dig the core gameplay and systems which goes a long way. Will be interesting to see how it evolves once we start having to build multi-element teams, lots of room for additional depth depending on the roadmap.
I wouldn't expect a full gacha experience, but that's what will make it interesting to see how they end up monetizing it.
Trash rates? Just the other week ago I pulled both Mirabelle and Hildegarde in one Tenfold. I usually don't do the single summon as its a waste of wyrmite. Of course the game will sometimes give you the 5* wyrmprint every now and then with dupes, but then again I tend to also put importance on prints since some already put meter into your dragon transformation.
Also people are really underselling the 4-star units by a lot. I actually prefer some of them to the 5-stars.
Play with a styuls. Learn focus attacks.
It's times like these where I wish Australia wasn't coupled with Europe in terms of game releases. Why the hold up, Nintendo? We only need English!
The game has had it's hooks in me since release, but being Canadian, I might be done with it until they do a release here. It's annoying to try and pay into it (would need to use US gift cards) and I've had my nintendo account set to US for the last little while to save my progress, which I'd rather not do.
Haven't decided yet but we'll see. The sunk cost fallacy is pretty powerful stuff.
Haven't decided yet but we'll see. The sunk cost fallacy is pretty powerful stuff.
Always wanted it.
I'll take a new Nintendo IP rep over rando 90's nostalgia third party characters any day of the week.
Just letting all know that this is not available on NA, it's on EUA but neither Canada or Mexico have access to this game.
Also; I've played it a few times but I think I'm not really into mobile games. I often fell asleep, but it's a funny game.
Maybe if my friends could download it...
Yes, trash rates. You getting lucky on a pull doesn't change the fact that the rates are trash. Hard numbers are not changed by your personal lucky anecdote: 0.5% featured character, 0.5% non-featured character. 1% chance. And your pity will not build much thanks to sharing the pool with stupid wyrmprints that get double the rate, as well as dragons with the same rate.
Compare that to FE:H: 3% featured character, 3% non-featured character. And you'll only be pitybroken by a 5* character. You're 1/6th as likely in DL to get a 5* character. And at percentages that low, it's really easy to run into an insane unlucky streak.
So yes, trash rates.
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Pityrates in DL are still pretty high though? I think the rates have been adjusted since launch.
Would be nice if they released it in Europe. Now it has been so long I'm not even going to touch it.
At least I can casually stay playing Fire Emblem Heroes...
At least I can casually stay playing Fire Emblem Heroes...
After 10 summons, pity rates increase the odds of the featured 5-stars by 0.25% total, meaning that's split between featured characters, wyrmprints, and dragons, so divide that by 4 to get the increase to featured 5* characters: 0.0625% increase for every 10 summons. And there's a 75% chance of being pitybroken by a dragon or wyrmprint. The same pity rate is true for non-featured 5* characters.
By comparison, FE:H increases pity after only 5 summons, and it increases it by 0.25%, but that is not split between characters and other stuff, it's all to characters.
So to answer your question, no, the pity rates are trash too.
Bro, are you drunk? I have not spend a single dollar and yet between tickets given CyG and playing ive managed at worst 3 10 pull every single banner since release
Nope. The soundtrack is really good but the gameplay is whatever. The levels aren't fun and is more of a chore to do. The harder level bosses are the only ones that require strategy but before you can even fight them you need to grind a lot or spend real money to buy upgrade materials. The art on wymprints are great. The gatcha is fun and the developers are pretty generous with giving out free pulls.
With all that said, I've put a lot of hours into it even though the gameplay is whatever. It's more cause it's convenient to play, I suppose.
Can believe it, it's a pretty fun game with pretty garbage drop rates and diamantium is obscenely expensive.
...so you're saying you got to summon without paying money.
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Right, hence my curiosity at the breakdown. Especially since the $-per-download is way higher than the average gacha game.
Are you also including Platinum Summons into this? Platinum Summons guarantee 5 star characters on certain days.