>>281703919
>Will they come back?
No, they've been fully replaced by gachashit at this point. It's not profitable to make dedicated routes and stories for your waifus when you can just toss them into the gambling machine instead.

4chan and reddit bonding over hatred of gacha games

>>712821238
I saw this plea from a doujin author posted in /a/, and I'm reminded that I can't even play Eroges anymore because Japans own storefronts now block them.

So even if I wanted to play Japanese made games, it wouldn't be possible, because Japan has shot itself in the head appealing to westerners who are pulling their games from storefronts and also using credit card companies like Mastercard and Visa to keep sites like DLSites from selling eroges.

Make it make sense, /v/
Just make it make sense.

Also make stupid fucking Japanese idiots understand that nobody can just go out and play their games anymore because their own government regulating them into the dirt.

>>279716787
>Gacha and vtubers are made when people realize there's money to be made in specifically catering to waifufags.
>Majority of the waifufag crowd flocks to these media forms that specifically pander to them.
>Suddenly girls from actual nip works are left high and dry after chinkshits and 3Dshits stole their entire audience.
The anime waifu is dead and has been dead for years at this point. There's no money to be made in any girl that isn't from a FOTM show.

>>279685395
Gacha waifus/vtubers don't have to deal with existing in animation/manga formats that necessitate constant redrawing of a design. They also have to stand out since games/agencies are bloated with girls competing for audience attention. Since the majority of these mediums operate off of reusable 3D models, they naturally end up a with a ton of accessory vomit on their designs. Their designs don't come from any interesting need or ideal, just convenience and a desperate bid to stand out.

Popularity doesn't equal quality. Gacha and vtuber shit are both designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator of men who are dumb enough to throw away their money on virtual gambling/3D bitches pretending to be 2D. It's an audience that has shit taste in the first place and eats up anything as long as it has ass and tits. If you want an actual indicator of quality just look at all the artists who explicitly outlaw Hoyoverse on their comm sheets because they're exhausted of drawing dime a dozen complex chink outfits that torture their fingers. Or how those same artists will go crazy on fanart when an actual anime girl becomes FOTM and finally gives them something nice and simple to draw.

>>279624141
Almost right the right one is supposed to be a plain schoolboy. Also what>>279626708 said.
>>279626821
It has less to do with "sel-insertion" being prevalent and everything to do with publishers trying to play things as safe as possible so they could reach the less discerning customers, I think. No different from what happened to games with casualization and stuff like gachashit with characters that pretty much never develop.