>>719961328
>have spin-off game
>game's story is completely irrelevant by its very premise, set on a computer server cut off from the setting's reality
>main contribution of the spin-off is providing worldbuilding because you're able to go in-depth on the backgrounds of the various characters, because you no longer have 400 of them
>...
>spin-off main story concludes
>never acknowledge ANY of spin-off worldbuilding, making it strongly feel like the spin-off is just straight up not canon at all and all that shit about various companies competing at making service bots is conveniently made up just for the spin-off
>announce main series collab with spin-off
>'at last, spin-off will get its justice and catch up with the main work'
>...collab character is an extremely tangential main series character who also happens to be in the spin-off
>...and she uses a machine gun like in the main series rather than a sword like she does in the spin-off
What the fuck were they thinking?