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You essentially never get to Platinum Summon if you don't pay money, so it makes sense.
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[Nintendo] Mobile game Dragalia Lost, 50 Million in Revenue since September launch
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You essentially never get to Platinum Summon if you don't pay money, so it makes sense.
You can play gacha and never put a single dime too though.
Lol. I think u are talking about wrong game lol. Dragalia still havent had it swimsuit character lol.
This doesn't explain why the game isn't available in Canada and Mexico though.
I make muting all the Promoted accounts a game. Really obscure promotions will appear after a long enough while of doing this.
But why would I choose to play a game where as a free or even a budget player, I get a horribly compromised experience. Only whales who spend thousands of dollars actually get to access all the content in these games.
Or...I can go on Steam during a sale and spend $20 and buy a ton of great games and get the full experience, without being nagged to spend money, or jealous of other people who got lucky slot machine pulls, or pissed off when I don't roll the rare items I want or whatever.
That's my take on why gacha games are awful both as games and for how they prey on gambling addicts.
Ignoring questions of gambling or grinding or whales, gacha games make me uneasy because I know I'll never ever spend a dime on them, meaning I'll never ever be a part of the target demographic of the game no matter how much I like the game, no matter how much I play it. Which I find both weird and frustrating.
I barely play FEH only because I love FE as a series.
I barely play FEH only because I love FE as a series.
I just find playing games on a phone too much of a hassle between the frequent downloads, long startup times and battery use. That said, I enjoyed the presentation and ideas behind the game from the handful of missions I played when I first got it.
Platinum summons don't let you use wyrmite. Only diamantium, which costs money. So no, I'm not including it, since it's not available to F2P players.
And just to be clear, it would take $32 of diamantium to get one platinum summon, since the guaranteed 5* is only for tenfold summons. Maybe you could get it a bit cheaper using some limited deals over months, but it's expensive with real money, and only guarantees you one 5* not of your choosing.
Huh, that's weird. I'm getting enough in-game currency to do 50+ summons every month. I must be doing something wrong.
Well i totally disagree with you on the part where it is better experience to spend on 20 dollar as in the end, it will just deliver you that single burst experience.
While mobage games especially f2p like these one will keep evolving and keep growing. What u play in the first 6 months will become different maybe another 6 months. You are simply presented to just stay f2p or support the game by buying its currency.
At least with 0 price barrier for u to entry the game, the devs getting money from premium currency is still normal unlike u paying 60 bucks game and still need to pay for premium currency
Seems relevant to point out that literally all content in the game is accessible with 4* or even 3* characters. You can run High Midgardsomr with a well-upgraded Xania (3* fire mage), for example.
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Completely putting aside the 'game devs are a business and are out to fuck you over' mindset for a moment, from a purely business perspective it makes close to little sense to drive away your freeloading playerbase. There is close to zero point for someone with too much money to spend to spend it on something akin to a deserted island without an audience. You rarely, if ever, see any successful, long-lasting mobile game that doesn't have a sizeable non-spending playerbase; as a close example and arguably a spiritual predecessor, Granblue definitely doesn't have 22 million spending players.
For any given playerbase, the more the numbers shrivel up, the more the business model has to go harder on the big spenders, which then feeds into the loop you're talking about where free players actually do have a compromised experience, leave, and it becomes a critical-mass feedback loop till the game in question folds. Gacha games are also definitely in a mature enough state in terms of business and market R&D that many devs can see this coming in the early stages of a spiral.
In other words, pragmatics aside people aren't dumb and will find better things to play if they feel they're having a compromised experience.
Not saying it doesn't happen here, especially for the unlucky ones who get completely screwed over by the gacha (without recourse outside of waiting for months for another chance at weaning meaningful progression out of an uncaring slot machine) but it's all checks and balances.
Anyway, that aside, what's again interesting to me is the revenue-per-player which is inordinately high compared to other similar games in the market - what Dragalia doesn't (currently?) have in sheer numbers it seems to make up for in fanaticism.
For comparison PAD's $12-per-player average was shockingly high in 2014: https://www.forbes.com/sites/insert...s-its-closest-mobile-competitor/#615ba6ad3e86
Is wouldn't say fanatacism perse. The beginner deal is really good especially compared to other priced in the game.
This is all dependent on how they came up to this figure btw (.ie if it ignores rerolls).
That's good going. When I first read the title I was like (O)(O) because I read it as "Mobile Game Dragalia Lost 50 million in revenue since September"
FEH higher rate is to compensate for the fact that even if you pull a character you want, you can still get screwed by the bane/boon system.
Also to unlock full potential of a character, you need to pull 11 of the same characters.
Granted this is not relevant outside of top rank arena, but it's something to keep in mind why FEH has "high" summon rate.
The other thing is, the pity rate for Dragalia is 0.5% per 10 pulls, not 0.25%.
And everyone who plays Dragalia knows dragon is the real jackpot in almost any banner.
Difference between 4* and 5* dragon is much more substantial than 4* and 5* adventurer.
So it's pretty much 50% chance of pitybroken by something useful.
This stuck out to me too. $35 per player seems absurdly high when you consider that the vast majority of players will never spend a cent. Personally, I think the gacha model is fair and the game is perfectly accessible to F2P players, but wow, there must be some real whaling going on.
There's also the guaranteed beginner pack at 25$, and you can get 1500 dia (premium currency) for 8$ too if I'm not wrong (+ the "cheap" endeavors pack). People who can pay will also buy the monthly unbind packs, basically 2000 dia and a merge for a dragon, wyrmprint or weapon at the price of 35$ (you skip the gacha in a way), much more appealing than diamantiums alone.
That welcome pack is definitely an effective IAP gateway for the game. Also having a marketplace that offers a lot of bundles, the $25 for a random 5* offer, and the recent banner that featured guaranteed 5* pulls for dimantium, and I can see how it can add up for casual players and not just whales buying currency.
This seems a pretty good number considering that so few countries received the game, even more comparing to fire emblem which had more countries at the same time when it launched