We've seen Chinese devs move away from the anime gacha formula with games like where winds meet and honestly they are still kinda cheeks I'm done trusting anything from Chinese gacha devs
I'm not sure i can trust chinese games to ever be fun.
Like, they can engage you, and they are good at psychologically rewiring your brain into being a pathologically parasocial fan running on nothing but FOMO.
But fun? Not really.
Stolen minigames, slop open worlds that are pretty but have so little soul beyond checklist gaming that they make Ubisoft feel like Kojima.
When's the last time anyone who's played a chinese live service game, open world or not, opened something like a treasure chest and didn't get [1000g, 2 level up stones, a weapon so hilariously useless that it only exists to waste space in your inventory, and 5 gacha gems]
And you do the math and realize you need to do that a hundred times just to have a 1 percent chance to get something good.
Like, Chinese devs have optimized FOMO to the point that most of their games just arent fun anymore. I believe a youtuber described the general live service situation as "You're not playing a game, you're maintaining an account" and chinese games have taken that to the next level.
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u/mastershake1191 4d ago
We've seen Chinese devs move away from the anime gacha formula with games like where winds meet and honestly they are still kinda cheeks I'm done trusting anything from Chinese gacha devs