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>>2050117Useful links:Global/JP PC client download: https://aethergazer.com/en/CN PC client downloads:- Yongshi login https://skzy.ys4fun.com- Bilibili login https://www.biligame.com/detail/?id=105233Up to date wiki/guides/builds: https://mimir.catGlobal guilds:393415 SisterGame ~50k weekly activity, join this589867 Lummies ~5k196657 CuteNFunny ~5kPost here if you apply to any of them.
>>2050117Lick lick
>>2050117Now that's the kind of pet cat I'd like.
>>2050117The skin interaction should've the scene where (You) spank her ass.
How does the 5.0 reset of top up bonus work with Zenki/Buzenbo shards? Is it just a total reset, so regardless of if you've spent before if you spend after 5.0 you get it again?
>>2052236Do people actually top up in chinks server? How do you even people do that with entering the server is convoluted enough already let alone paying shit in china.
>>2052368>Do people actually top up in chinks server? How do you even people do that with entering the server is convoluted enough already let alone paying shit in china.You either make an account with the game's devs or you play the game through bilibili (similar to using your google play acc for login). The former requires you to have a chinese phone number and papers, while the latter you don't, but your playtime will be very limited due to child protection laws. You can email bilibili's support and send them proof of your age and identity and they remove the baby lock.For topping you use shit like alipay or qq, or if you're using bilibili then there is a paypal option and you're charged in yuan so it is cheaper overall.
>>2053934>chinese phone number and papersI managed to use an european phone number and some random chinaman's id.The chat does leak your phone location so be prepared to be called laowai, but saves you from having to send your passport to bili.
i'm new to this gamewhile i was parusing models i saw pic related with the details: "uoghhhhh gloomy smoker older sister-like made for sloppy reckless creampies uoghhhhh"is her banner ongoing? - snogger
>>2054901Not 100% sure if new players still get it but there is a one time selector gacha that has her 100% guaranteed in 70 rolls, don't mind the "returnee" everyone got it when it released.
>>2054914thanks anon
>>2054914Does this game seem like it will last long. How are the updates? Like does the dev look pretty invested in the game? I'm still suprised you Gazer lasted this long
>>2054920It's essentially the portfolio project for a "ghostcoding" firm, the patches have become increasingly long but as long as investors don't rain them with money to make something better it will probably last for a while.
>>2054901nice legs
>>2054920It's already 4 years old in CN server and 3 years old in global so it isn't exactly new, and it still get content updates frequently so certainly it isn't in the same vein as those recent flops when the devs just went radio silence after a few months then quietly pulled the plug.
>>2055002pretty interesting as far as i say
Is it a good time to start Aether Gazer?
>>2056238Kinda late to be honest but you might still have enough time to get Horus and the freebies from this patch.
>>2056243There's 10 days left, he can get Horus easily if he plays the game properly. Free Irkalla would let him steamroll all the early contents.
>>2050117PGR (temporary) refugee here, started playing since yesterday:1. which old character should I roll from the current standard banner? planning to roll hades but at the same time I wanna roll the twintail too2. are the stories locked by character progression?
>>2056314Isn't the twintail(Horus) are different banner from Hades? Just fokus your crystal on Horus first. You should have enough yellow ticket for Hades.>>2056314I don't think so. But you probably need to be on level 30 player level to unlock all of them.
>>2056314Check out the tier list and team pages on mimir.cat to get a general idea of the meta, tier list is sorted by general utility, and you can turn on CN mode to check for future-proofness.Some of the old stories make you use your own team, but any modern character will steamroll them, and you get 5 copies of Irkalla for free at the event, as the anon above mentioned. If you pick Kuramitsuha on the standard, you also have the best support for DPS Irkalla, add Skuld from the limited gacha, and you have one of the two t0 ice teams.
>>2056314Some generic advice I posted for a new player in the last thread.>>1996168Note that the 'next patch' I mentioned is now the current patch, so the ice DPS/support I mentioned is the same one the anon above me is talking about. The free copies are just from spending swigs (the equivalent of serum in PGR) and logging in a few days, so it should be possible to get.
water hel waiting room
>>2060952She's cute but I'm never laying of my Zhiming
>>2060952>HelRoll for collection>HodurNow that's a hard skip. Gonna save those rolls for Izanami wedding skin instead.
>>2056439>>2056441>>2056470thanks bwos, already got the twintail and kuramitsuhafor twintail, should I prioritize skuld over osiris? banners almost end and I doubt I can get both in time
>>2061443For Horus, Osiris is better.For anything else, Skuld is better.Pick your poison, you could get the other one later in one of those selectors they would hand out anyway
>>2061462half anniv selector?
>>2060952Osiris skin would be in that patch right? I guess I should grab that instead.
>>2061443nta but if you buy monthly. You can grab S Buzenbwo, use the bundle selector on Tsukuyomi and got cookie cutter thunder team with Skuld.
>>2061479We are getting two S selectors, one on 4.8 patch (Xihe) and one on 5.0 patch (twins, it's also our half anni patch).I forgot if the one for Xihe patch includes Skuld or not, but the one for half anni does.>>2061508Osiris skin is free and it's on Xihe patch, so it's still way off.
>>2061513Free as in FREE or as in you've to gacha it? I thought Izanami wedding was in that patch.
>>2061523Free as in, login reward free. Gacha is Izanami wedding skin, and Xihe is the paid skin,
Whos the next patch?
>actual kiss in Skuld's vampire live2D final sceneDAMN
>>2067486Feet Helhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkoG4c7xmWI
>>2067785>those feet shotsThese devs don't disappoint.
Got Horus with 5 hours remaining, only started two days ago.
>>2067544It was damn good. How do other girls even compete with her?
>>2068609>5 hoursShit I though it ended tomorrow, haven't started the events yet, thanks for the reminder.
>>2068667Sheesh, and I thought I was leaving things to the last minute without completing the new story chapter yet.
>>2068629By getting married with admin before her.
Part of me wants to get Hope (skuld), but as a new player, don't have the rolls and to early to justify spending money yet.
>>2068728At worst you would only have to wait for a few months to get her from a selector, if she hasn't spooked your rolls by then. There's literally zero pressure since endgame sweaty contents are literally just for flexing.
>>2068675Managed to get all limited rewards with 50m to spare, account unbricked.
Servers are up
>>2067785nice
standard update
>>2069114Is Hera worth using anymore? She's the only one that looks tempting.
>they fixed Wadjet's name after a year
>>2069120If your Skuld is busy babysitting another team then your next best choice for general support is either Lingguang or Hera. Wuluo is way too specific and she probably would take Lingguang with her most of the time.
>>2069114When will Gengchen get in the rotation? I'm 1 copy off from SSS
What are Hels reccommended Sigils?
>>2069284https://mimir.cat/mourning-butterfly/
>>2069284
Since they are going back through old mods they should bring back Skadi.
Hel is cute. Shame about the powercreep.
>>2069483Would that count as powercreep when her team lost to a 2 years old team?
did the qt released ?
>>2070083Yeah, a while ago.
>>2070083They gave five free copies during Brahma patch, she's getting her synergy module next patch which will actually make her competitive against A-Ver even in short fights.
>>2069483Speaking of power creep, is there anywhere we can see the HP inflation of bosses over time?
>>2070518The only thing that has changed on IT since its launch is the elements for some of the bosses.And on the new IT mode the difficulty comes from affixes that are tuned to benefit the latest character rather than just HP inflation.>>2069525Original files for all three variations https://files.catbox.moe/fix14v.zip
>>2070634>Original files for all three variations https://files.catbox.moe/fix14v.zipfantastc thank you
Last one was quite a struggle to get to 20k even with SS Horus but this guy just melt in one try, what the hell.
>>2071725Is that Osiris in a Halloween outfit? Why haven't they tried to sell me this?
This truly is a feet game.
>>2069120She's still the best single target universal support, and seeing how they are focused on element/resource/regional ones now, it's probably not going to change anytime soon.
>1.4 mil views >jp is it our time?
>>2072063>proceeds to post m*les to scare any potential new players away
>>2071788Fuck Hel's alt. Where's my Kuni alt yongshi you fucker.
>>2072279After S Vidar and S Levi alt.
>>2072279Nyever, Counterside died and we are next.
>>2072292>S VidarYes please.
>>2073221Anon please, don't put Yongshi in the same tier as those retards at Bside, that's a massive insult.
>>2073264Bside may be retarded but I'd still rather play Star Savior than Aether Gazer if I had to choose
>>2073317You don't really "play" Star Savior. It's an autobattler.
Speaking of saar savior. Man, steam PC client for any mobage seems to be less hassle compared to standalone like Aether Gazer. It's not make any fucking sense that I've to download 40 gigs twice while the other are like 500MB for client and 20 gigs or so on steam.
>>2073998Yeah, why didn't they put this game on Steam, anyway? Even Snowbreak and Wuwa are there.
>>2074095well, isn't most of the fanbase in CN? why would they use global/steam?
Anyone tried this? https://github.com/Kei-Luna/Aether-Gazer-Voice-Patch/
>>2074095They probably concluded that the pyrrhic ammount of new players they would get is not worth the 30% loss from existing players that switch to Steam.And they have the experience with the Bilibili client that takes up to a 50% cut.>>2074349Wouldn't risk an old account with an approach that intrusive.
what character is that?
Is an Ice team with Izanami/Kura/Irkalla not good? Mimir doesn't list it.
>this and wuwa returning to chinawank at pretty much the same timeCCP is forcing them to do this, right?
>>2077962>Mimir doesn't list it.
a mimir
>>2078053They have to pay tribute for the CCP after all.Kinda funny to see a lot of overlapping designs between these 2 games though.
>>2078718I'm certain Kuro steals ideas from this game.
>>2079365Seeing their crippled one are pretty much similar to Zhiming. I'd just chalk it up that chinks are pretty much stole each other for everything.
>>2081332I mean it's a pretty common design concept but I can't unsee Suisui as Lingguang with different hair color.
I never realize that her skin has an actual minigame.
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It's over...https://m.bilibili.com/opus/1222895760348020756
>>2093160Damn...desu I think this game was doomed from the start. They never really found an audience due to dumb early decisions (males making it overlap with PGR, being on the easier side, overall painfully uninspired art direction) and they took too long to change course. And then there's the fact that Yostar had left the game to die to shill BA instead
>>2093160Oh well, I guess it was fun 4 years at least. Is there any clue on what their next project is? Promilia is different dev right?
>EOS before Odin and the rest of the Prime mods become playableGuess the trouble with the license for PC version voice was the beginning of the end. I hope Stellar Sora announce EoS soon, fuck Yostar. >>2093195It's by Manjuu and current they still haven't officially announce anything for global server.
>>2093160it's been an honor and a privledge, gentlemenno matter where things go from here, Ausar will always be my wife
>>2093160Seriously? I didn't realize Aether Gazer was in that bad shape. It's been a rough ~2 years for gacha games. Damn. Maybe they can reorganize things into a sequel and start fresh. I'll miss Osiris and being able to play as Ciel.
>>2093160i'm sorry guys its been an honor to see aether gazer stuck out for more than 3 years You guys were my best alternative to pgr for like 1 year, even with all the interactive scenes
Haven't really played this game since launch year outside of coming back for a week or two right before Izanami's first banner. I liked the game but endgame seemed pretty non-existent unfortunately. Hope you lads have been having fun this entire time and it's a shame to see it go.
>>2093244This feels like a very recent decision since they were still optimizing and adding QoLs to the game People are guessing they pulled all their staff to work on the new project and had to axe this game in return. But I would be quite furious if that new project is another fucking open world slop.
>>2093160I quit half year ago, thought it could still last 1-2 years. This is sooner than I thought. Not a bad game, just never found the crowd
>>2093160its time to deploy that alternative..........the private server
RIP, we will never see the rest of them.
i need to extact the models asap
>>2093248>seems like a snap decision I would guess so as well. They've been struggling to salvage the game for awhile now but weren't gaining any traction despite the changes. I don't blame them for thinking that pulling the plug asap and getting to the next project quicker is the right move.
>>2093270Let me know if you get past the chink encryption, never figured out how to deal with that and could use the knowledge for other games
>Hop on to do my dailies>eos jumpscare>global chat sadness and people asking "Why wasn't it another thing from deep space that died? The one that deserves to die didn't" Were gacha games the real recession indicator? How do I tell her?
Time to move to star savior
>>2093293>Touching anything by Bside after they gutted CS like a dog.I'd rather come back to CZN.
>>2093293I can't do it after Bside shut down counterside for similar reasons (they're also working on a new game while SS is losing numbers btw)
Snowbreak died before us too. Where should we go bros? I refuse to go back to Yuzhong's mercy
Yuzhong's arms are open, child.
another one bites the dust huh
>>2093296Kaleidorider soon
>>2093296Was hoping I could spend sometime on Endfield till something better comes out but that game was an absolutely dumpster fire, now AG is dead and there isn't anything promising on the horizon.
>>2093296pray snowbreak comes back then cope with pgr or zzz
>>2093302Seems alright. Does this have the same concept with motorboat gacha from Senran Kagura's maker?>>2093308I better off with nothing if those are the only options left.
>eversoul into counterside into gazer eosgive me a fucking break
>>2093339The big squeeze is happening, post arknights-genshin era flourish is withering
>This is probably the last time you will see Alicia and Ciel with modern graphic.And don't talk about remaking or new GE after the shitshow that was Code Vein 2.
>>2093339No breaks on the death train, I have a bad feeling about Star Savior as well. Have to hope the Summer alts do well. Gacha industry is shrinking really quickly.
>>2093401>Not many people want to play your game if it's too niche.>And no one wants to play your game if it's the same copypasted shit from some certain popular titles either.Gacha industry has been always a tricky one. People got blinded by few big name ones and completely disregard anything they deemed of lower quality.
>>2093401It is like the arcade industry in 80s. One day all would be erased from Earth except museum and vintage shop
>>2093419I think it will end up like the MMO industry after another decade.
>>2093422I can only imagine that happening if normalfags find some other hobby to jump to. Other than VR I'm not even sure where we can go from gachas
>>2093160Welp. Alisa and Ciel are forever stuck in this alternate universe I suppose...
>>2093430I feel like there's a 2nd wave after all this AIslop and data center trouble settles down. Dragon Traveler yields better than Aether Gazer ironically despite being blatant sloppa.
>>2093339Hop to Outerplane next.
Damn bros, I'm sad. I like Gazer because of team battle with AI and not just action solo swap members like many others. Are there other gachas with similar team battle like AG?
>>2093577There's Endfield if you want "team combat" but I seriously can't recommend that game.
>>2073221I knyew it. This game was the only thing left making me look forward to tomorrow and they just killed it with not even a reboot or part two as an excuse.
but why...
>>2093681>What the hell>Google lens it>Auto chessAG is funding this?
>>2093699I don't see Yongshi logo though.
Do you think they're going to bring the last updates to global? Or will they just end us here?
>>2093270I don't play your game (visiting because of the EOS announcement) but I think chinks had already ripped certain models from your game to koikatsu so it's not ALL dead I guess.https://juedge.gumroad.com/l/vbndxI have also seen the same model on garry's mod in steam's own mod workshop so they probably have ripped all of the existing models somewhere.
>>2093734It's not like they instantly kill the CN server. It's just stop updating, probably to allow global to caught up before killing all server simultaneously.
>>2093160Well, damn. I was really enjoying this game. Out of all chinese gachas I played this one had the best girls overall. What a shame.
>>2093548I second this. I've been playing it along AG and it's going through a revival.
>>2093160Haven't played in months but gomen sisters. Hopefully you will enjoy wherever you go next.
>>2093275Game was reporting to actually make enough profit to stay afloat though, so the real issue is whatever projects they are working on required more manpower and they decided to kill AG for it, a game that they haven't shown a single footage in exchange for a working, profitable gameTurned out these guys are even more retarded than Bside.
>>2093740They regularly upload mmd converted model on their official aplaybox.
>>2093160NOOOOOOOOI wanted to get the twins in global.....
>>2093256link it if it exists
This game had the most barefoot girls out of all gacha games I know. This is a great loss.
>>2093248The Horus interactive where you can walk around a house with 4 characters seemed like they were still experimenting with adding more things into the game and could have evolved into something really good. It really was a snap decision.
>>2093824Here are some alternatives- Azur lane has plenty - most girls in NTE have outfits that show feet- Wuwa usually has 1-2 feet girls per region
>>2093830Mongil Star Dive just came out in April, and it has Narae and Nagi, swimsuit alters of launch characters, and standard character name gabi and other purple rank daisy ... but I'm unsure about the game's future.
>>2093838Girls look good, RNG was reduced in the last patch by a lot, but the combat is still not really fun for me. I do appreciate the clear communication from the Devs though, they really want to try and make the game work.
>>2093809I hope it's Aether Gazer 2 or something along those lines. We'll have to wait and see. Yeah Aether Gazer was a working game that made some profit but it was always gonna be a tough sell to get new players in the door. Gotta get that growth man. Kinda funny they pulled the plug on 3/5 of China only characters being Chinawank.
>>2093821man...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hydh2eO990
This will be the last time I play any game from Yongshi/published by Yostar. They seem to be putting profits first lately.
>>2093160>death by chinawank
I also suggest Outerplane. The game is trying to reestablish itself as a waifu game.
>>2093857>Earning the grudge of the current playerbase by killing their game before they even announce what kind of slop they are making.Tough luck, unless the game is mind blowing impressive enough to gather a massive traction, all they did was shooting their own foot. I really don't see a bright future for Yongshi after they pulled this shit.
>>2093878>OuterplaneIll give it a shot
>>2093824be sure to download any feet focused trailer (or any trailer you liked) before they gohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkoG4c7xmWI
>>2093909https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrT77KAujUk
>>2093909I know, bro. I know.
>>2093903>hopping from dead game to dead game
>>2093909https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbgxi0hy9nghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJoj7UWh0aI
Never play your game before but your girls design are kinda sexo. Any reason why this game EoS?
>>2094027never took off, shoot itself in the foot with homos early on
>>2094027Retarded devs killed the game so they can focus on their upcoming projects.
>>2094027Devs had no idea what they were doing in regards to publishing/advertising, in the global/jp versions yostar abandoned in favor of stella sora, when devs tried to save the game by going snowbreak route the snowbreak shut down incident happened.
>>2094043The game would have had a good chance of becoming a replacement for Snowbreak if it didn't have homos. They knew how to make good skins and lobbies and the girls are likeable but it couldn't get rid of the stigma.
>>2094043it favor of blue archive*
>>2093270Someone's already extracting them. I regularly see animated ryona of AG girls in places.
New FAQ posted https://bbs.ys4fun.com/posts/424701English translation: https://pastebin.com/wF8Ze9TCtldr>the project began incurring losses from the second half of 2024>they will try to keep the server up as long as there are people playing>work on the overseas servers (ours) is far from over
I was planning to get the Parvati and Zenkibrat costumes. It's over...
>>2094069>second half of 2024So it's pretty much around the time when Yostar dropped the game back to Yongshi and they had to go through a lengthy progression of service transfer.
>>20940692nd half of 2024 I presume around Thoth's patch right? I guess it's really kinda late for turnaround
>>2094083Depend on how late was that 2nd half, but CN server wise it could be around Brahma patch.
>>2094093I remember there being a three months long summer patch due to the service transfer. No surprise they started losing money there.
>>2094095They couldn't recover from that after all. Plenty people thought the game was EOS because it disappeared from Yostar list, and Yongshi had no money for some big market campaign to push the game back. I saw a lot of JP players only realized the game was still alive after they tried to find something to replace SB.
i still have no idea whats the difference between this and project gotham racingis this the manjuu/yongshi one?was this the game that had the giant mihomo-like fag banner on the main chink website and everyone wanted to bomb their hq?after the annoouncement are they on their unilimited free gibs works phase? i kinda wanted to know where did my bote funds goi remember having males but at least theres no furries right?
>>2094097Yostar wasn't only responsible for the marketing but also for the servers. It's unsurprising that Yongshi's expenses shoot up as soon as the publishing deal ended and they had to fend the costs for themselves.
I'm sorry Aethebros.
(I'm reposting this.) First, let's lay out the full story as it's known within the industry. This rumor is largely true and reflects the consensus that has emerged internally at Yongshi:I. The Full Story1. Yongshi’s CEO is himself heavily addicted to Auto Chess, and internal project prioritization has been completely skewed in its favor.Yongshi has already registered the software copyright for *Doki Doki Chess*, an anime-style cute girl Auto Chess game. The project has been elevated to S-level, making it the company’s highest-priority initiative.The logic from upper management is very straightforward:3D action mobile games are extremely costly to develop (Deep Space requires a full suite of animations, modeling, storylines, and animations, employing over 100 art and animation specialists), and they have a long payback period;Auto Chess development costs are only one-fifth of those for ARPGs, with simple monetization, stable revenue streams, and an extremely long lifespan—as evidenced by the proven profit models of *Honor of Kings* and *Golden Shovel*.2. By the end of 2025, all of Deep Space’s core development resources were officially diverted internallyMost of Deep Space’s core staff—including the animation, concept art, and narrative teams—were forcibly transferred to the new Auto Chess project, leaving only 3–5 outsourced support staff to maintain the game. This was the fundamental reason why updates became increasingly sparse, content was scaled back, and character production plummeted by half over the following two years.Producer Awei didn’t have a full team at his disposal; with no one to create new content, he could only release incremental updates. Eventually, he gave up and coasted until the project was completely wrapped up.
3. Revenue is just an excuse; the gross profit margin in financial reports is actually very high (Deep Space’s gross profit margin has consistently been above 90%). It’s not that the game wasn’t profitable—it’s that senior management looked down on slow-growth revenue and wanted to bet on the quick profits from Auto Chess.Deep Space had already established its brand reputation and had a stable user base, making it a cash cow; senior management decided to squeeze out the last remaining value before committing the entire workforce to Auto Chess, abandoning the long-term action game market.II. Why Are Players So Disgruntled?Deep Space’s biggest pain point: Its action framework ranks among the top tier of domestic 2D games, and the foundation is more than capable of being nurtured over time to become a long-term masterpiece.But capital logic doesn’t care about reputation—it only cares about ROI:- Deep Space: Capital-intensive, slow iteration, generating stable but modest profits- Anime-style Auto Chess: Low-resource investment, assembly-line mass production, potential for massive revenue spikes—a direct bet on replicating Azur Lane’s second growth curveAzur Lane is Yongshi’s core revenue source, ensuring a steady cash flow, which is why senior management dared to ax a mature action RPG project and shift the entire team to bet on a new genre.
III. Two Cruel Facts1. Deep Space didn’t fail because of poor revenue; it failed because the company strategically abandoned the ARPG genre and shifted all production capacity to strategy card games.2. The “Companion Server” was the producer team’s final act of defiance: officially archiving the complete content, offering full refunds, and preserving player save data—a form of compensation from the R&D team to players, effectively distancing themselves from the corporate leadership.IV. Predictions for the Outcome*Doki Doki Chess* will enter open beta in late 2027, directly competing with *Golden Shovel* and *Mingchao Auto Chess*. The market is already saturated, so it’s highly unlikely to become a hit;- After losing the *Deep Space* 3D action IP, Yongshi will find it difficult to revive it and will likely transition completely into a strategy card game developer in the future.
what the fuck is deep space
>>2094400AG, the hanzi 深空之眼 reads "eye of deep space"
This is the last time I'm playing a chinese gacha.
>>2093601I have no interest in Endfield. I guess action team battle like AG is not common in gachas.
>>2094391>>2094395>>2094398and just like that, I'm not touching a single thing with their name on it ever againfucking idiots
>>2094391>>2094395>>2094398>wow this auto-chess is really fun, I can't stop playing, we should make one of these>uh sir we make Aether Gazer here>not anymoreClown world strikes again. Reality truly is stranger than fiction. >Azur Lane is Yongshi’s core revenue source, ensuring a steady cash flowInteresting because, at the same time they're turning off AG because action games aren't as profitable as simpler things like auto-chess, the Azur Lane devs are making Azur Promilia which a Genshin clone. Ridiculous. We were robbed of clown cutie and got clown CEOs instead, across most gacha games apparently.
>>2094046>>2094031Imagine being so gay you see men and think they're homos
>>2094669There's nothing masculine about gacha men.
>>2094391>>2094395>>2094398So Yongshi CEO managed to out retarded BSide CEO, impressive. Hope the chinks boycott their autochess garbage and Yongshi never make it big in the mobage industry.
>>2094027the devs would rather take a stable project with recurring revenue, despite how balanced budget it may be, and focus on other games typical trend hoping devs
Dam assuming the rumors were true, then everything almost contradicts the devs explanation letter >>2094069, which means the lead devs were forced to fully take the responsibility on himself for the game closing down by Yongshi CEO. This is just disgusting.
>>2094395Where they even got the financial reports from anyway? Is Yongshi even listed? This reeks bullshit. Regardless if those furry auto-chess will be their next project, it's a hard sell for me. I can't even think successfull auto chess game besides the one that got piggybacked by established IP, even dota one bombed lmao.
Shame that the game has to end after this.
If they continue the Global updates. I wonder if they will shorten the event duration or we still gonna get the usual 1 month event.
>>2094955
>>2094689If they're not masculine, then you're even more gay for thinking they're homos.
>>2095033Still not pulling for homos.
>>2094955i will never forgive the chinese
>>2094956Hard to tell what they are even planning to do with the global server. Anyone who gave a shit about the game would already heard the news and either, stop spending on the game altogether, or trying to get refund. The global server will just bleed money at this point.
>>2094955Is it really the fault of the devs when this game really never took off and the players never came back?
>>2095080The game had became stable after the early rough years. They were doing story revamp, even had roadmap and new characters planned, everything pointed out that the game was doing fine enough and they were still testing and implementing new stuff, you don't need to make hoyo tier money to stay afloat, plenty of game with worse revenue than AG is still around. The decision to kill the game is simply abrupt and caught everyone offguard, even the chink players were confused about this announcement. So it's neither the fault of the devs or players but whoever decided to cut the game to fund the new project.
>>2095080This game made a few big mistakes at the start but it found its identity as a fanservice game and the playerbase was big enough for the game to keep going. It wasn't big but it was big enough to be profitable.Still, AG had the best designed character movesets out of all 3D gacha so it getting axed for autochess is just insulting.
>>2095066Why are you jerking off then, you're pulling a homo's cock?
>>2094398What's the source on this, a Bilibili page?
>>2095166These characters are made for actual fujos so don't pull that shit with me.
>>2095194Really now.Out of the 9 dudes of the game, all of who talk to women, you think they're all for fujos. Despite 5 just being regular handsome men? And the other 4 being 2 shotas, a croc man, and an old guy.All of who which interact with the women, which isn't Fujo behavior at all.Both Jackal and Apollo have women after them too.
>>2095211That's fine and all but I'm here for the girls. Still, I don't see the point arguing over this when the game is pretty much done for.
At least we can see Thoth stripping for one last time.
>>2094957ZAMN, these were some good interaction scenes and models.
>>2095245thoth more like THOT
>>2095268yes
I feel like Thoth tits get bigger with every new skins.
I was expecting a pole dance, oh well.
>>2095283>we were about to return to getting alts for aether gazer mods
>>2095283is this a skin for Ookuninushi?
>>2095294Yep >>2094955
>>2095290They put out a huge line up for new chink mods, which probably mean for next anniversary, then all got canned, I don't know if that is sad or hilarious.
any private server?
>>2095306>serverYou better look for a way to hack it into a SP game.
>>2095245It would have been a lot better without the long-ass skirt, seems the default skin will forever remain the best. Also>tfw no Thoth swimsuit ever
>>2095283God damn that ass and those stockings. I love AG's styling. Shame it might never be used again.
>>2095549Seeing the game went from the ugly generic 1.0 anime cell shading style to the current style was pretty impressive. They managed to make it look somewhat doll like yet without hitting the uncanny valley.
>Sekhmet buff on the eos patch so Thoth retires as Top
>>2095675Man that's such a glowup. Makes me sad that Kuni will never get her glowup.
>>2095689Green mop playable never.
>>2095693No sasanami3, no omorfies2, no Jokurr, no Odin, no Zeus, no Amaterasu, no Freyr, no Senuf, no Hlokk, no Nia, no Rag, no Baldr, no SVidar, no SLevi2.
>>2094940The financial report for private investors is public https://pdf.dfcfw.com/pdf/H2_AN202604101821115031_1.pdf?1775835163000.pdfThe gross profit margin claim is true, but that's the case for pretty much any game. Gross profit margins are calculated using Cost of Goods Sold, which is peanuts for a digital game. It does not include operating expenses like salaries, office rent, taxes, marketing and so on.Fed the relevant data from the pdf into Elon's chatbot, and it found Awei's claims plausible (pic rel), but hard to tell for sure without more specific AG vs AL numbers.
I still have a very slight hope AG might get revived if the dev's other projects take off enough to subsidize AG... if it doesn't get eos'd in 6 months after the maintenance mode starts
>>2096153>this is a clever ploy to catch up global with cnThat's bullshit but I believe it.
>>2095885>Promised new Odin model since her old one was ugly as sin>She literally disappeared from the game till it gets EOS and never came back.That cheater entered the new reboot by herself and left everyone behind.
Just finished Hel's side story and... there's no battle stage at all!? Not even a boss fight.
>>2096625there were signs
Any good alternatives? I've tried:Honkai Impact 3rd - found the game really obtuse full of old and outdated systems. Also not a great F2P/low spender experience. I haven't tried it since part 2 came out, I've heard it's a bit better now.PGR - OK, but essentially just a cutscene simulator these days. Plus I got filtered by how wordy the story is which makes it harder to get excited for new characters.Endfield - Tried it because your team is 'on field' but found the combat and story bland, and your teammates just sortof stand there passively doing nothing. They effectively could be off field and the combat would be the same.ZZZ - I found it ignored a lot of my control inputs compared to every other game I've tried, which made the combat feel terrible to me. Maybe just a skill issue on my part, but it's the only game I played where I felt that.Star Dive - The RNG was insane on monsterlings, although I've heard that got better last patch.NTE/Genshin/Wuwa all had various issues - stuff like boring 'kill the mobs in the time limit' endgame, powercreep, dailies that don't respect your time etc.Aether Gazer was the best game I tried with the combination of boss attack, team on field, story, F2P/low spender friendly and limited power creep (including buffing old characters). I haven't found anything else like it.I guess I go back to PGR, it was the best of what I tried.
>>2097687The main problem with team combat is that you need to design character kits and program the AI to work with them. Game like Endfield completely skipped this step, your teammates just poke the mob harmlessly while waiting for your command input to actually use their skills, which turns the game into resources management and QTE instead of action game.Honestly I doubt we would ever see anything like AG again.
>>2097806Yeah I understand. I just found the end result of having teammates with proper AI made the combat in Aether Gazer much more fun compared to the others. Just looking for something to fill that hole now. Given so many gachas seem to be going under at the moment, you're right in that I don't think a companies will try it for a little while as anything away from the norm will be seen as a risk. Instead we'll get a bunch more 3D open world gachas straight out of the cookie cutter factory.
So where can I download the in game 3d model? Also surely they will make it playable offline right
>>2097973There should be some mmd models on aplaybox and if you don't want to create an account you could try asking around /mmd/ on /e/ or even check deviantart . As for an offline mode that's anyone's guess
>>2097687>Star Dive They added more ways to get good trait on monsterlings and made fusing them easier. Although, can't say the game is f2p friendly. They just did a dual banner for the summer characters.
>>2097687It's not gacha but Granblue Relink is the closest thing to AG, I'd say.
>>2098191It's very impressive that AG managed to have no limited characters, not counting collab, after 4 years, after they ditched the shitty hoyo gacha system. You will be hard press to find another game like that.
>male charactersDeserved
Oldest Shu sister here. So this is it, my sisters. We had a great run. But it's over now. I feel like my duty isn't to play the game but to document the game now. And make a Youtube video or something leading up to the final moments of the game. I remember playing the game on CN servers when the Global account was complete radio silence for months/years(?) and immediately falling in love with Shu. I didn't care how weak people would say she is I knew she'd be my first Omega character. Shu is what I consider to be the perfect business moe wife. I'm going to miss her so much. But I'll also miss everything else about the game. I was also a Snowbreak enjoyer so this is the second time this year that a game I enjoy has been placed into the kill box. I think I'm going to quit playing gacha games for awhile once AG shutsdown. I genuinely fell in love with this game and prioritized it over others including PGR where I had original came from.
>>2099730Told them from the first poll that their attempt to capture the normalfag audience with homos and default English dub was only going to alienate their natural waifufag audience, the lockdown generation considers anything that's not a mint picking field low-value, they won't spend on a "menu game."
shu for shu sister
>>2100039Going >>
This game had so many great girls. Ausar, Osiris, Buzenbo, Brahma, Zhiming. I will miss them all.
Aether star gazer soon....
FAQ follow up: https://bbs.ys4fun.com/posts/425273Translated: https://pastebin.com/r2bTgfzntl:dr>companion mode guaranteed minimum 5 years up, will consider offline after that>pc/android will get necessary updates after delisting, no IPA sideloaded updates for iOS>store permanently closed, will distribute skin vouchers/shifties periodically>it's not autchess addicted ceo's fault trust me
>>2102092They better bring back the voice for PC client now that the game is "dead" so no more license issue bullshit or whatever.
>>2102092>The company is going to keep the servers up for 5 years at no cost to the players because we're the nicest and most principaled guys ever>but we're a small studio that could never recklessly cut a game because it's not profitable enough Hmmmm, I smell something fishy here. >We tried everything we could to make Aether Gazer workI do believe that but the end point here is still weird. He says the allegations and rumors are ridiculous but he doesn't say they're false. Still a damn shame.
>>2102111I seriously doubt they would keep that 5 years promise, probably just a false safe to see if their new game would be profitable or not, I bet they will immediately shut it down when the new game starts making money.
Will try to keep mimir up for at least as long as the server is running.There might be some archival type pages added now that keeping them up to date is not a concern. Here's an unlisted teaser one https://mimir.cat/gallery/chatstickers/
>>2102111>5 years after "EoS" which was 2031I thought they'll shut it down on "5th anniversary". This is too ambitious, why not just make offline version instead directly. Playerbase will find a way to make private server based on it.
>>2102217This seems to be a similar case with Zhlong and Archeland before. They announced EOS for the game, got plenty of angry backlash from players, then they retracted the EOS announcement and promised to keep the game up till further notice. Turned out they did that because they were afraid that people would boycott their new game (Mecharashi). Acheland was kept running for around 2 years with zero content updates then finally got a real EOS after Mecharashi got launched on all servers.I totally expect the same thing will happen with AG.
>>2102265Makes sense but I don't think it's gonna work out so great for them.
>>2102217Keeping the server up with no updates or new player registration costs them almost nothing, modern cloud platforms charge by usage.Also saves them face and keeps the reboot hopium up.
wind grey box, 1.0 mod superiority>>2102189sank u 4 ur service
Retard here, is it a nice time to start?
>>2102659This is the worst time to start. They just announced there will be no more content.
>>2102659This is the best time to start you get to enjoy all the existing content!
>>2102659This is a meh time to start.
>>2102370I pressed the button, just for you.
>>2095215Because you clearly don't even know what you're complaining about.
>>2103467Look, women pushed the gender war so hard that nobody wants to share games with them anymore. Just look what they did to Snowbreak. You can't attack men's hobbies and still demand to be accepted. That's not how it works.
>>2103506>attack men's hobbiesLol you really are delusional.
>>2103575>it's not happening!Except it is. Even Aether Gazer was censored on CN.
>>2103593Yeah, it's not happening dumbass. Having men that exist in your game is not "OMG THEY'RE LITERALLY KILLING DA WAIFUS".
>>2103655Women will always screech about da waifus. Inviting them to the game is just asking for trouble.
>>2103675The few men in the game were normal and not "yume" or "fujo" bait retard.
>>2103690Only Marduk was normal.
This is what they are killing AG for?
>>2103810fucking bleak
>>2103810Horrific
>>2102189thank you
>>2103698>old guy is "normal" now
>>2104123Yes. He looks like Big Boss. He's normal by videogame standards.
I love Jinwu
>>2103810Yongshi deserves to go under after this.Maybe Manjuu can take the AG team with them and discard the rest.
>>2104166It may really be ogre for them, their whole shtick was dev'ing stuff for others and now everything with their name on it will get reviewbombed by disgruntled ag players like it's happening with the furry autochess.
Making my global account as we speak so I can actually read the story once the big freeze happens in CN
>>2104186And to think they were highly praised by CN/KR and JP fans for being generous and constant improvements with AG, everything turned 180 after one single announcement, especially during this period of gacha industry when it's fucking hard to get a well behaved and dedicated fanbase.
>>2104127You don't even know Big Boss looks like. Retard.
Last PV translated (turn on CC)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cr2Q0Hn1zc
>>2104396At least the game goes out with some dignity, the way SB treats its players is just ugly, more empty period extension while the devs just stay radio silence without talking a word after they gutted their own game.
>>2104293You have no arguments.
>>2104401Their game got mass reported and had the CCP come after them. It's different circumstances.
>>2104396I would have definitely bought the Ocunny bunny. What a shame.
>>2104401Schizobreak got the full force of the CCP on it with some of the most abhorrent and disgusting censorship known to man, literal 4kids tier censorship.
>>2104186>disgruntled ag playerswell...or what's left of them
>>2104396Developers stood true to their artistic vision until the end.
>>2103810easily top 10 betrayal of all time
>>2105247I will miss those feet.
>>2104529You got btfo'd because you think a few men is courting women, and now you're the one saying I have no argument?
>>2105769nta, but i don't think a few men in gacha blah blah is 'courting women' or whatever you both were calling it and arguing over. my problem was the guys stealing gacha pulls that i wanted to get girls from. i remember nearly dropping aether gazer in the beginning, because i was pulling on the ausar banner with the leftover pulls i had after getting s-tsukuyomi, and got fucking light tyr, with all my pulls gone. even now if you pull, despite the guaranteed s-rank banners existing, the a-rank males will still flood your pulls, wasting them. nuadha, sobek, apollo, enlil and marduk's bitch ass kid. then again, all non s-ranks in this game are ass or were useful to a point before getting power creeped (sad bastetoki noises)another example would be in neverness to everness. because of the guaranteed s-rank on limited banners, i don't have to worry, just pull for the girl i want when she is available. but the a-rank males still exist, and if you pull on standard banner, there is always the chance to be spooked by baicheng. its not that i dislike anyone. it's just taking up space in the character menu, even though im not going to use them so better to not get them in the first place. if the company wants me to pull and spend my money constantly, better to make stuff that actually sells and panders to me constantly then. my 2 cents
>>2105796>light tyrDeleted my first account because I rolled that homo, didn't really pick the game back up until it became clear they had steered away from them.
>>2105769Yes. People play gacha games for the girls. Adding men in gacha is always done to attract women and the "wider audience." which always results in toning down the coom and pandering.Your only response was>i-it isn't happening!when it clearly is, so no. You don't have an argument.
>>2105850Adding to that, early Aether Gazer clearly tried to court the wider audience and guess what? Turns out normalfags don't care about arena battlers and will only play open world slop. Maybe if Aether Gazer never had males and started pandering from the start this game would have still been alive.
>>2105864don't forget the utter sabotage yostar did my spending money, time and resources on the cancer that is en dub and making it the fucking default option of all things for global at launch.
imagine defending being forced to roll for homos
>>2105882fr bro. dude is like that guy in the law and order meme>I am not a homolover!>I just have relationship fantasies with female characters>and sexual fantasises with male characters!guess what? that means you're a homolover>insert guts_theme.wav
>>2105850>>2105864>>2105882>>2106014>projecting faggot is also a complete tourist
>no argument yet again
>>2106248>complete touristSure thing lil bro
As an gacha player who got used to mixed gender gachas long time ago and still fine with it, I never understand those who only wants husbandos/waifus only gachas, always found mixed game to be more interesting, but eh, I guess that just how it is these days.
>>2106834It's not about the homos themselves, as much as I don't like them. It's about the chinese gender war escalating and women doing everything to push men out and take over the games, ranging from infiltrating the dev team and censoring the game to mass reporting games to the CCP like it happened to Snowbreak and a few others. Korean gachas are mostly immune to this but you still have cases like CZN.
>>2106834It satisfies the genetically-encoded male impulse to throw resources at females in exchange for egg access
>>2106834Mixed gachas are still the biggest gacha games by a wide margin. Single gender gacha games are niche appeal despite what enthusiasts want you to believe. That said. As a veteran that played mixed games for a long time, yes I only care about collecting girls in gacha games so males being in the pool is a detriment. I don't need any conspiracy theories. Gacha games are for collecting appealing things and I find cute anime girls appealing. That's it.
>Nia on the event preview puzzle thing when she's never ever going to release now
>>2106938>NiaAnon, witness this "coming soon" girl.
>>2106990Wuluo's master Changqin, she even had the "about her" voice line already "evaluate 1078" on https://mimir.cat/jade-forged/voice/>>2106938Full size picture from the game files https://files.catbox.moe/bv92x6.png
>>2102189Thanks for the website, it was essentially perfect. Are you going to make anything like this for any other games?
>>2097687Play Starward Mecha Girl.>>>/vm/2701996
>>2107134Sex with the dragon one that's long range artillery.
>>2107201Same
>>2107134PvP gacha? I've never seen that end well.
>>2107351It's surprisingly generous (if you play often) and buff/nerf happen every patch. Also every event, they will give you free trial for certain characters.
I just realized something. I never got the best Athena outfit because they never rerun it. And now I'll never have a chance to get it. I never got it bwos... >>2107134this shit doesn't have english, I can't play without my english
>>2107693>this shit doesn't have english, I can't play without my englishU wot m8?
>>2107693Are you sure you downloaded the right client?
>>2107693Maybe you can finally get it in that companion server.
>>2106269>>2106601Yep, complete tourists. You clearly don't play the story or know the lore. Somehow you think this game put guys in for girls and "homos", but that's just you projecting that any handsome male dude is homosexual lmao
>>2109582>using "ThE LoRe" as an excuse depsite not even understanding the lore in the first placemodifiers can be born either gender. that's all the lore relevant to your dumbass argument that you have misconstrued or misunderstood immensely. the argument is on why are any of the pullable characters male (you know, the products the company wants me to spend money on and pull)?the playable males, like the females, are products made to be marketed and sold via gacha, hence someone has to be the intended audience to pull on them and with the devs hoping that audience spends and pull enough, they can make a worthy return on investment into making such a product, enough to facilitate more similar products/characters being made in the future. ie: there has to be an intended audience for the pullable males. i pulled for jin-ei and her skins, i like seeing her flash her jiggly tits and ass in each team ultimate while being the flirty, friendly but capable onee-san figure. she appeals to me. who tf does all the males appeal to? using occam's razor, girls and gay dudes makes the most sense. problem is there's nowhere close to enough of either customer base to facilitate making such characters that appeal only to them. because the devs didn't skimp out on the male characters>time and resources are spent giving the males a unique design, animations and va>full gameplay kit that goes beyond the bare minimum with unique elements (anubis follow-up attacks, flame tyr having a whole other moveset after he throws his sword and uses his fists, mengzhang's dual element swap mid-battle, whatever marduk's weird minigun and obama drone simulator schtick was, etc.)as for the homo element, you are playing as Admin, a confirmed male, who is getting very close to all the modifers, and especially the female ones. if i'm supposed to be roleplaying as a freaking chick magnet, again, why the heck would i want to pull for the dudes?
>Yostar's bootleg blue archive drowning in figures while all we got after 4 years is a mid ling one that might not even release
>>2109967We have a Gengchen figure too anon.And I enjoy seeing Yostar bleeding money to keep this flop around.
>>2109961The homoloving retard comes from /gdg/. He's not arguing in good faith. Notice how he isn't actually saying anything.
>>2109582>but that's just you projecting that any handsome male dude is homosexual lmaoNTA but men don't see other men has handsome in the way you put it, you see figure like Conan and say "Yea that's manly", you are a literal faggot, men are not supposed to be handsome for men but manly as a figure to aspire too
>>2109982I knew it was over the moment their rollable girls couldn't compare to female mc
>>2109967that game is yostar's industry plant and it keeps flopping and flopping despite forcing the female mc on the playerbase creating a completely undesirable environment for harem players because the male mc is dead in marketing and completely forgotten by yostar in favor of yuri pandering with the female mc creating a disconnect and infighting in the community itself, not to mention the game's massive design flaws that make it impossible to start late or return to and it's very unfun gameplay loopyostar is burning money like crazy on female mc merch (the only popular character in the game) to keep it alive but it's barely working as it's more and more unpopular due to yostar's stubbornness putting off players
>>2110767Yostar's fall from grace is well deserved with their awful track record after BA success. They probably think they already became a publisher giant after a few decent games and started treating lesser earning games like crap. Their next victim will be AP and I seriously doubt that game will do well in the current oversaturated state of open world slops.
>>2109961All this to say that they made males because they thought it was cool lmaoMultiple dudes exist in this game that you're also close too. And not all of them are even playable or modifiers either.Tourist.>>2110007>>2110007I can easily see someone like Tom Cruise as handsome without being reduced to faggotry like you 2.
>>2111124>because they thought it was cool lmaoNo such thing in gacha. NPCs are one thing because they are needed for lore and worldbuilding but playable characters are meant to make money and are always designed with a specific crowd in mind. In the case of gacha, males exist to attract women and when you attract too many of them then things start really looking gay. Good examples are Genshin and Granblue.You can defend your homos all you want but in a game that sells coomer skins and interactives having them is counterproductive.
12 hours before DV reset, get your eight rolls with three lvl 7 runs
Hodur drip dropped.
>>2111999And I now realize, Baldr drip never
>>2111124you completely ignored the first guy's argument breaking down the characters for what they are, products meant to be gotten via gacha. products that are meant to appeal enough that you'll spend pulls/money to try and get them. he said how guys appeal to girls and gay males, and neither has enough of an audience, attracted to this type of game, to make making characters for them worthwhile. and then whatever characters were made, will enter the gacha pool, diluting it even more for those actual players who want to pull on some girl later.you ignored responding to any of this.>Multiple dudes exist in this game that you're also close too. And not all of them are even playable or modifiers either.the fact that you didn't name even a single one, despite the post you were replying to able to name multiple, really exposes whose the tourist around here, fucko. i'm really leaning more and more to believing >>2109994. you're just a moron who comes here to argue and shit fling. like those vultures who kept stirring shit in snowbreak's thread every day during the dev silence. an inert mound of silicone covered in ejaculate is worth more than you, considering this is how you waste your timealso you're in a anime game thread, the second guy you were talking to brought up an anime male...and you jumped all the way to tom cruise, an irl 3d male? what?>without being reduced to faggotry like you 2which 2? you replied to the same guy twice, you stupid demented bitch! rofl
>>2112050>no playable baldr, except for that small bit in the agi factory, where she just a yellow skin version of a-hodur. baldr has been out of commission since surviving the nehunasa arc, and i don't think's she made an appearance in the story since?>no s-vidar, showing off the cool senior leviathan looks up to so much>no s-hermes with a cool flash/cipher super speed moment>no s-bastet with even more "bastetoki!" spam>this is not including freyr, hlokk, neph, nia or any of the remaining 2nd tian yuan arc characters that will never be playablethe things we'll never have...fuck this worldline
We still getting global updates, anyone still want to purchase anything in-game?
>>2112090Baldr woke up from her three day coma on the last stage of chapter 9 (9-12 Good News). Also appears on Hodur Heart Link.>fuck this worldlinet.Odin
>>2112135I mean, what's even the point, all the money will just go to fund that shitty auto chess game. Global server just feels like a scam at this point.
>>2112139>what's even the pointYou get to enjoy Wadjet for 6 months, that's already a better value proposition that some $60 games that go stale in a week.
>>2112054>you're just a moron who comes here to argue and shit fling.It's true. I recognize the schizophrenic posting style. He's also doing it in the Outerplane general.
>>2112138the only playable primes are genghen and brahma (i guess techinally ausar/horus counts as a prime mod now maybe?). odin, zeus, amaterasu are still mysterious as ever. still have no idea what the leukomorphs, or who the white lady is that fought freyr, or what the 11th sephirah sector is where zeus disappeared to. the visbanes and the real world got interesting again when admin's true identity got revealed and how he's connected, while still leaving bigger threads to finish.this game really went the counterside route of being killed off while setting up even greater mysteries and story lines with even more powerful characters to play as and bad guys to deal with. both had great story too. it's a pattern im noticing that i really don't fucking like
They finally posted the global notice after pushing 5.2https://x.com/AetherGazerEN/status/2080111719955956100tl:dr>updates until 5.2 which will come out December 1>faster patches to be able to do that>same maintenance mode as CN after>will refund unused shifties after 5.2 but no details on when store/registration will close
>>2113505We're on 4.8 right? I guess it's easier when they accelerate now when nothing matters.
>>2113505Yeah just saw this in-game. Glad things will speed up I suppose but obviously the whole situation is a bummer. >we'll keep things online until September 2031 but we'll reassess what to do in March 2031Crazy, I cannot imagine any of that will actually happen. Aether Gazer 2 will be out before then anyway.
>>2113533We are in 4.6, in CN 4.8 lasted like two months while they finished 5.0, we should be getting ~25 day patches instead.
We got robbed out of Nia(rlathotep) and Cthulhu
>>2113710Imagine having a whole outer god/old ones genzone planned then got killed during the chink wank period before you can release any of them.
Aether Gazer devs just admitted that they started losing money after yuribaiting a ml character
>>2113710>hot red headed tomboy cthulhu-chan in a flashy swimsuit wielding a watergun smgsomething so peak i never even imagined, but am now depressed i'll never experiencebros...it's not fair
>>2113956I don't know why these games can't just commit to pandering from the start. This game would not have died if it was an all female for (You) game.
>>2113956im...kinda confused here. wasn't this just thoth looking after revived empty headed skuld who didn't recall a thing and had to relearn how to exist? am i misreading/misremembering something cause im missing out on the yuribaiting here? i feel like if you want to call out yuribating in the game, the odin boss fight with gengchen had that weird moment where they got way too close mid-fight, would be a more better contender
>>21140042 girls touching each other is considered yuribaiting by some insane people out there anon, Yongshi even had to apology and gave them free 10 rolls for that, but since the story didn't imply any of that it was just some retarded dramabaiting by certain group of people since the game was having its big anniversary. Also that happened at the first half of 2024. Second half of 2024 was around Oneiroi ~ Heimdall patch.
>>2113985Arknights and PGR did irreparable damage to the chinkngacha industry
>>2114188add Silver Palace soon
>>2113710Learning more about what we were supposed to get is just making me feel angry. I guess I will just log in later to read the story and grab the Horus gacha skin and that's it.
>>2114255>silver palaceSurprisingly not as anti-horny as I'd thought it'd be-the fact that that bunny/horse knight even exists is proof-but I guess it will still anchor normalfags to this hobby nonetheless. (And that sucks)
So what do people think the end game lore reveals are gonna be?I've only played global story, but I'm guessing that Gaea being an ark for humanity and visbanes being a threat to it are surface level reasons, Gaea is also a last ditch attempt to develop a weapon against astrabanes. Visbanes aren't naturally occurring bugs in Gaea, they were put there by Admin/Sophie to mimic astrabanes so that a solution to fight them could be developed within Gaea. That solution is the modifiers and the final stage of Gaea is for modifiers to exit and enter the real world to deal with the problem of astrabanes. Also kind of makes sense thematically as modifiers gaining humanity is a consistent theme throughout the game (like it was very direct in Sekhmet's chapters)Though that doesn't explain Turing I dunno what that guy's deal is.
>>2114329>spoilerStrangely enough, this reminds me of PSO2NGS
>>2114188>PGR You don't know what you're talking about. PGR is one of the most ML-focused gacha games out there. The only thing that differentiates it from games like Snowbreak is that it's more romantic than horny.
>>2114329what about the leukomorphs? nothing is really understood about them other than their hostile capability to everything even visbanes, they came from the 11th sephirah sector where zeus is hinted to have disappeared to. the white lady who led them and fought freyr is still unknown. then there's that strange entity that was fought in serket's event that was neither visbane or leukomorph. also if visbanes are mimics of astrabanes, then wtf are havocs then? btw the more i read that part revealing the astrabanes, the more it seems like they're not human/ai made, and more extraterrestrial /extradimensional. fuck i hate how much lore is basically set up for not just further arcs but straight up sagas, that won't be answered.
>>2115182>"ML-focused">"only thing that differentiates it from games like Snowbreak is that it's more romantic than horny">completely ignore the many playable males that can be gotten from gacha, and gotten close to>just to make it clear, out of (at the moment) 82 characters, over 20 are males. that is 1/4 of the playable characters, so you can't handwave it as 'a small minority'uh huh nope. it's not ML and you are a disingenuous idiot. ML is single gender focused completely, you moron. the other gender can exist but not as playable characters (unless it's your self insert). i've seen a bunch of fucks like you constantly misconstrue ML to fit your 'tarded definition. by that view of yours, you probably think wuwa and endfield is ML too, huh?
>>2114188>PGRYeah immediately course correcting away from shipshit within the first six months, progressively reducing male releases to a maximum of 2 per year at its absolute worst, and not having 50/50 banners while still allowing the lowest common denominator to guarantee every character without issue are truly the epitome of horrible business decisions and anti consumerism.The gacha scene will never recover, but no one else in their right mind would also try and do something like that huh?
>>2115236You're either trolling or just retarded, considering where the term "ML" in gacha originated in the first place.Like, I kid you not, just a month ago, we got a main story chapter about one of the main villain girls having a happy love life with (yuo), including implied sex. Then we got a skin story with an actual kiss scene with one of the main girls. A week ago, we got a new patch where a completely new girl confessed her love to us (pic related), and we also got a summer skin story with another kiss scene featuring yet another girl. The only mainstream gacha that can barely keep up with this level of self-insert pandering is probably Nikke.
>>2115648Not him but adding males only opens the door for the undesireables. If you are going ML then stick to one gender. Kuro already did the bait and switch in Wuwa so they aren't trustworthy.
>>2115275>course correcting>still releases malesthat ain't course correcting, dumbass. it still tries to appeal to both male and female customers despite the wide gap in between them. op was attributing arknights and pgr (and genshin, duh) to the flooding of mixed gender gacha games that we all have to deal with that even you admit has done done damage to the industry, drawing in normies who now thinks monogender games are weird, even though this is how it all was originally. girls want to get male characters only and complain about pretty, sexy or cunny female characters. guys just want to play with female characters and their self insert protag. these two groups can not physically or mentally exist in the same game without it dissolving into a mess. the only people who can exist in this messy space are normies, gays, or people who've dropped their standards as a sacrifice to play the game.no one in their right mind would after cultivating an audience of ML players in 1.x, cementing it more in early 2.x, waning them quite a bit in the latter half of it except for chisa, only to release 3.x with more than half of the playable females not being into rover, including anni girl aemeath. but that is solon and his company you're praising.as for the rest of your points about PGR>no 50/50>enough pull currency to get the new characteraether gazer did all this already. so no, it ain't the big win you think or want it to be. i ain't giving you or your mixed toilet game the evangelion congratulations clap. go back to your boards kuroshill. maybe luuk will give you a comfort hug and a backrub to make you feel better
>>2115648>didn't at all address the 1/4 male playable characters claim, the other guy made>instead tries to deflect by "look at how much lovey dovey stuff commandant gets with all these waifus!"putting aside your wild statement at the end about nikke's self-insert pandering (the gacha that does on again, off again yuri stuff? yeah sure lol), you, >>2115182 (or is that you also?), and >>2115275 suddenly coming in to this dead game's general, just to defend, sell and tout your own game that is still alive, is not a good look for PGR if you all have to come in here to praise kuro's name. im basing this off the pattern i'v noticed of gfl2 players coming into snowbreak threads all the time to shill their game despite it not doing so good either.will admit, girl in your pic related does look pretty, and your stuff written seems nice, giving me snowbreak vibes, but i don't want to get a guy in my gacha pulls and the match 3 thing in the middle of combat didn't click with me when i tried it at global launch (also there was that whole launch fuckup that pushed me away too)
>>2115841>the only people who can exist in this messy space are normies, gays, or people who've dropped their standards as a sacrifice to play the game.sounds like Silver Palace
>mindbroken retard meltdown hoursAnyways, they turned the monthly on for players.
>>2116235>can't hit early, even in deathSit on my face as reparations, Ookuni!
>>2116266One of the best looking butt I ever saw in these games, put those so called high budget top grossing games to shame.
>>2116357Yeah, the new models and style+shading got so good, and because it's a smaller IP you could get away with stuff like Xihe's thong, Wuluo's skin and Jinwu's pasties. It's so unfair.
>>2116266mmmmm, sounds like now is a good time to play aether gazer with my main gacha's current downtime
EK CHUAH
>AG EOS>BA commits suicide weeks laterI don't know this is divine retribution, or we finally entered the dark age of gacha when those greedy fucks at top begin to tighten their grips. Things look so bleak.
>>2119882AG death sent a clear message to the industy: quality + generosity = bankruptcy
>>2119978>quality*males
>>2119978but they didn't go bankrupt! we were making profit! and they killed it anyway because the suits became obsessed with an entirely different genre of games!it wasn't AG's fault!
>>2121038The game really didn't seem like it was dying. It managed to upgrade models from really bad to really damn good, release multiple mods in one patch, increase the amount of skins and lobbies and even had that Horus interactive where you could walk around and talk to her, Osi and twins. That's not what a dying game looks like.
>>2121443>The game really didn't seem like it was dying.Revenue was on a hopeless downtrend
>>2119978>>2121473AG is competing with Honkai Impact and PGR. For many peoples, those games are their first Mobile ARPG and there is no reason to switch. And AG insist on chinkwank and 0 advertisements didn't help either.
>>2122271There's very good reason to drop HI3 after they switched to that shitty arc 2 with a brand new cast, me and all my friends dropped that game when it happened. The whole thing flopped so hard they had to drag back the old characters for a bit more milking before they have to end that arc.Also blame Yostar for the lack of advertisements since it was supposed to be their job.
>>2122271>>2122390And genshin didn't help either, when it came out it replaced HI3 and its clones as the gold standard of gacha games (in china). PGR might have been able to survive thanks to "le hardcore gameplay" but AG, the "easier" honkai clone, pretty much got its niche stolen by genshin (even though they don't play the same at all).
>>2111141>No such thing in gacha.Lol, sure jan. Not everyone in game development thinks about potential ships lmao
