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To give an uninformed board like /jp/ some background information, the story of how the most soulful ACGN game become a success: with love and determination.
To be clear, initially Blue Archive wasn't a runaway success. It wasn't completely DoA like Revived Witch or World Flipper post-wind nerf, but it seemed like it would remain niche and eventually get shut down by Nexon anyway
It was also marred with bullshit like constant maintenance, low event rewards, fucked up PvP, and various other dumb mistakes
Eventually though, it started turning around. My guess for this is that it's a combination of several factors:
>Priconne being unironically a piece of shit game that has been hemorrhaging players for a while now
>Word of mouth
>Events like bunnies/cheerleaders spreading the game around, and curious people checking it out only to stay around
>Nexon actually handling this game properly and being communicative through some fucking miracle
>Yostar being excellent at marketing as usual
>The game genuinely being high quality in terms of characters, gameplay and story
>Dedicated fanbase constantly praising the game and shilling it
>Even the global version managed to survive the censorship drama
It's been slowly rising in popularity and what I initially assumed would remain niche is even attracting popular artists like deadflow and mda-s tarou. I fully believe this game has the potential to be one of the all time greats. Maybe not KC/FGO-tier but definitely not too far behind.