>>542431286
Noire the Whoire kneecapped otaku games at a crucial time when they needed to keep upping the ante or at least keep their current pace to stay competitive with the slowly rising gacha market. The death of Senran Kagura, Gal*Gun, Genkai Tokki, Omega Labyrinth, etc. created a void that gachas quickly exploited, and they soon absorbed most of the original players of those games. Even today, check the average Blue Archive player's social medias and you'll often find they used to play those games. Hell, I talked to the old 8 chan /nep/ board owner over email and he said right up that most of the board's old userbase took up gacha after 8 chan went down and the board became inactive, explicitly naming Blue Archive as well. Noire absolutely played a crucial part in pushing everything to gachashit by effectively zoning otakus off from consoles.