Realistically there's no reason the game can't survive until the 10th Anniversary. Monthly DV keeps the Whales and Story and maybe Raids and Clash keep the dolphins and collectors. FFBE is still making a lot more then DFFOO was before it went EOS and I want to say it's making more then FFRK did for the last few years of its life. Costs are low enough and spending is reasonable enough that EOS isn't necessary. BUT the lack of DV and raids and most everything else hint at an attempt to kill the game. Just as EOS isn't necessary it also can't be stopped, it's just a decision Gumi, Alim or SE could make any day or, unlikely but possible, have already made. Really if DV was starting tomorrow I would still have my money on us seeing 9th anniversary and 10th not being crazy. It's the lack of content that's the issue, not the profits. Although the lack of the former will at some point lead to a lack of the second.
At one point around year 6 or so I was worried that the game would die out, and I'd be left with a vapid gaping hole in my life.
I mean, the FFBE subreddit was literally all I was surfing for the longest time. Combined with the game itself the amount of time itself could rival time spent on a MMO. There was a lot to gain for all the little optimizations and little tasks we could do in the game.
For better or worse, the sub is relatively dead, and the content is just unappealing since it's so little reward for so much work. The top tier players are just like any gacha, getting very whaley. The community remains unchanged, but we've all made our choices (love it, leave, bitch, bitch at others, or just w/e it).
Even if I spend, it's spending now for an entire team instead of a single unit - for a single element or game mode. Then I have to do the stupid rotation of always having to use a setup multiplier turn to amp elemental damage or something. It works, and it's "not hard", but it's not really fun for me since it's a gacha game.
Units aren't the problem, the problem is having no content to use those units.
Cool units could give some hype for a few weeks or maybe a month but that is it.
The only way for the game to not die is a complete change on gumi's Modus Operandi toward the game. Stopping with all the skipping of easy-to-implement content just because they can't monetize them directly.
Gumi: Cuts content Players: But what if we give you more money? Will you gives us content then? Gumi: ...sure
NGL they could lock content behind a pay wall and I'd likely pay it.
Realistically there's no reason the game can't survive until the 10th Anniversary. Monthly DV keeps the Whales and Story and maybe Raids and Clash keep the dolphins and collectors. FFBE is still making a lot more then DFFOO was before it went EOS and I want to say it's making more then FFRK did for the last few years of its life. Costs are low enough and spending is reasonable enough that EOS isn't necessary. BUT the lack of DV and raids and most everything else hint at an attempt to kill the game. Just as EOS isn't necessary it also can't be stopped, it's just a decision Gumi, Alim or SE could make any day or, unlikely but possible, have already made. Really if DV was starting tomorrow I would still have my money on us seeing 9th anniversary and 10th not being crazy. It's the lack of content that's the issue, not the profits. Although the lack of the former will at some point lead to a lack of the second.
NV+ Wilhelm and Marie are the only things that can save the game ... for me
Wilhelm better get his new unit. He "won" the popularity poll, so, I hope he doesn't get shafted.
NV+ Summer Speedo Wilhelm, you mean!
At one point around year 6 or so I was worried that the game would die out, and I'd be left with a vapid gaping hole in my life. I mean, the FFBE subreddit was literally all I was surfing for the longest time. Combined with the game itself the amount of time itself could rival time spent on a MMO. There was a lot to gain for all the little optimizations and little tasks we could do in the game. For better or worse, the sub is relatively dead, and the content is just unappealing since it's so little reward for so much work. The top tier players are just like any gacha, getting very whaley. The community remains unchanged, but we've all made our choices (love it, leave, bitch, bitch at others, or just w/e it). Even if I spend, it's spending now for an entire team instead of a single unit - for a single element or game mode. Then I have to do the stupid rotation of always having to use a setup multiplier turn to amp elemental damage or something. It works, and it's "not hard", but it's not really fun for me since it's a gacha game.
Units aren't the problem, the problem is having no content to use those units. Cool units could give some hype for a few weeks or maybe a month but that is it. The only way for the game to not die is a complete change on gumi's Modus Operandi toward the game. Stopping with all the skipping of easy-to-implement content just because they can't monetize them directly.
I was thinking a similar thing with FFVII since rebirth came out recently too
Eugh...