Recent interview
>Initial launch was bad because they got 5x-10x the amount of players they expected coming out of the CBT
>Further problems happened during the first summer event because they didn't account for player spikes
>the fan art scene has always been disproportionately higher than the player base, they monitor the amount of fan arts carefully
>They were shocked one year when every comiket booth had BA booths after 3rd anniversary
>Korean companies don't know how to make game merch and many companies didn't understand why they would ever want to do a collab with a mobile game, which is why they rely on Yostar and Japanese collabs
>A lot of merch has a 1 million minimum order quantity
>They joke that China grows devs on trees and that they simply do not have the work force to compete graphically with Chinese games
Japan also has a similar joke related china given that they also lack dev force.

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And general blue archive things they talked about
>Initial launch was bad because they got 5x-10x the amount of players they expected coming out of the CBT
>Further problems happened during the first summer event because they didn't account for player spikes
>the fan art scene has always been disproportionately higher than the player base, they monitor the amount of fan arts carefully
>They were shocked one year when every comiket booth had BA booths after 3rd anniversary
>Korean companies don't know how to make game merch and many companies didn't understand why they would ever want to do a collab with a mobile game, which is why they rely on Yostar and Japanese collabs
>A lot of merch has a 1 million minimum order quantity
>They joke that China grows devs on trees and that they simply do not have the work force to compete graphically with Chinese games